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Saturday, July 10. 2010
Built to Spill
Graphic designer Justin LaFontaine created this witty concert poster to promote a show of indie rock band Built To Spill at Sled Island 2010 in Calgary.
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Friday, July 9. 2010
Boring is not necessarily bad
Having a radically creative mentality sure has its value, but in the design of everyday things, doing the typical boring things that everybody expects typically works best.
Use well established conventions so people don't have to think for even a millisecond: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Use well established conventions so people don't have to think for even a millisecond: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Photo credit: Wonderlane
Friday, June 18. 2010
How to fix your digital camera so you can take better pictures
In 1888, an inventor named George Eastman designed, manufactured and marketed a camera that forever changed photography, and also consumer products as a whole. Had Eastman taken a typical engineering approach to designing his roll-film camera, he would have copied the complexity of the camera that came before, which required the photographer to understand 19 separate elements to use. Instead, he focused on the experience he wanted to deliver, an experience captured in his advertising slogan, "You press the button, we do the rest."
(Source: Subject To Change: Creating Great Products & Services for an Uncertain World: Adaptive Path on Design
.)Well! Apparently Eastman's way isn't enough for taking nice digital pictures after all. In this guest post, Marlene Hielema, specialist in digital photography, explains to the laymen among us how to use other buttons to take better pictures.
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Monday, May 10. 2010
Best of IT'S BROKEN
New here?
These are some of our favorite posts to get you started:
Typos in Graffiti
Most graffiti is just dumb and ugly.
Pul to Open
Nearly impossible to open packaging is broken.
Thankfully, bears don't need the Shift Key to hibernate
Designers: stop making users work hard to perform what should be a simple task.
These are some of our favorite posts to get you started:
Typos in GraffitiMost graffiti is just dumb and ugly.
Pul to OpenNearly impossible to open packaging is broken.
Thankfully, bears don't need the Shift Key to hibernateDesigners: stop making users work hard to perform what should be a simple task.
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