The choice is simple when it’s between a reverse-chron list or a magazine-like layout. Flipboard’s value lies in adding color, depth and a great user-experience to your social media-scape. If you haven’t already tried it (and you should), it does this by using a formatting algorithm to create page-layouts for your social media feeds AND [...]
Buy Them for Him Now. Please.
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
Big Bang is a new trend map from iA – the same folks that brought us the Web Trend Map poster series. This sucker takes a look at a level abstracted from actual domains – social networks. I particularly enjoyed this quote: Since twitter is becoming an alternative web protocol that—together with facebook—gets close and [...]
Great article from iA about a newspaper redesign pitch they lost. The best part is their thinking behind the blue highlighted text: Scannability and print link: Make the articles scannable by using key words in blue. If you speak German you can actually read the front page in 20 seconds by flying over the blue [...]
(thnx forz for pointing this out) A lot of designers regard the practice of infographics as dull and boring — but this is almost certainly because they’ve never tried it. The 10 we spoke to, and whose work we’ve used to illustrate this feature, love what they do and believe it offers as big a [...]