A UX’er called Harry Brignull has setup a pattern library called Dark Patterns where he identifies interface and interaction patterns that have developed / been developed that aren’t really user centred. Here’s an interesting presentation he’s put together to give an overview of this library.
Nice video about future concepts for Book applications on tablet devices and the possibilities beyond simply reading a book. Nice find by a work colleague.
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
This is a splurge of info-graphics off the web. Info-graphics should be a combination of insightful and usable information and beautiful graphics. Some of these may step slightly more towards the beautiful graphics zone …
Thanks to my company EMC, I was able to attend this years dConstruct in Brighton last week. It was a day long conference about aspects of creativity aimed at the web design community. The high points for me were the talks by Marty Neumeier and David McCandless. I find David McCandless’ work on data visualisation particularly intriguing. I love the way he can pull stories out of a set of data, and do it with such design style. Plus he does a good presentation. The clip below shows pretty much what he presented at dConstruct.
I do like the design of this site. Their information design, their use of big and bold typography, engaging but not distracting iconography, and their use of colour – bold but not noisy.
