- An Unexpected Ass Kicking Great post by Joel Runyon, who talks about getting schooled by Russel Kirsch. 2 takeaways: 1) Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do. 2) Do things that have never been done. The first meaning: if you’ve conceived something in your mind, decide to do it, and are willing to put in the work – nothing can stop you. The second is fairly self-explanatory but carries the extra weight of it coming from the guy who invented the very thing that’s letting me type these words out on the internet.
- NASA: First full resolution Mars images from Curiosity Rover If this doesn't inspire you, you need to watch some Star Trek.
- Disney Researchers Augment Touch Sensation with REVEL "Presenting at SIGGRAPH earlier this week, Disney researchers showed off REVEL, experimental technology for adding virtual textures to everyday objects using electrical charge. You can touch two-dimensional objects, projections or objects in the distance and receive sensation of touching a texture or even a whole, complete three-dimensional object."
/via @paperequator - XOXCO - Is it time for password-less login?
- FreeUIKits.com | Free UI Kit PSD FilesFreeUIKits.com
- Forcing scroll bars to appear on an element in WebKit Stack Overflow comes to the rescue on CSS overflow issues where the scrollbars are now hidden on Mac OS webkit browsers. Nice.
- The Bricks - Photoshop User Interface Framework
- Wikipedia Redefined New! agency Wikipedia redesign project. Looks for the ways how to make it better, reader or editor friendlier, clearer and aesthetically satisfying.
- Context-Rich Scenarios Make UX Projects Manageable
- Sketchcamp San Diego | A Design Day for UX folks Sketchcamp SD is a one-day unconference in San Diego where UX professionals share and learn sketching techniques that can be applied to user experience design.
- Inge Druckrey: Teaching to See on Vimeo “This [film] is about patient and dedicated teaching, about learning to look and visualize in order to design, about the importance of drawing. It is one designer’s personal experience of issues that face all designers, expressed with sympathy and encouragement, and illustrated with examples of Inge [Druckrey]’s own work and that of grateful generations of her students. There are simple phrases that give insights into complex matters, for example that letterforms are ‘memories of motion.’ Above all, it is characteristic of Inge that in this examination of basic principles the word “beautiful” is used several times.”
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Link Drop (week 31 of 2012)
I'm trying some new things. The link drop will be an unfiltered list of things I bookmarked during the week, with some minimal notes. Some of these things may make it to parts of the wiki or blog. Here we go with the first one.
- Google Web Fonts Open Sans Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms.
- Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules (9780123750303): Jeff Johnson: Books Jeff Johnson book on Amazon.
- The Morgan Library & Museum - Current Exhibitions - Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper Morgan Library show of sixty oil sketches on paper, revealing a private side of Josef Albers's work. These sketches were never exhibited in the artist's lifetime and have rarely been seen after his death.
- No Excuse List "The best place on the web to learn anything, free." Index of free learning sites.
- The illusion of progress lights a fire: The coffee card story The ‘illusory goal progress’ effect shows that our perception of how close we are to achieving something can be easily manipulated by shifting the goal posts.
- Jiro Dreams of Sushi
- Mousetrap - Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
- CSSWARP - CSS Text to Path Generator
- The Slow Web – Jack Cheng
- Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein | The Verge
- Nike 1thology | Gene Lu. Interaction Designer. Welcome.
- UX thesis
- Design case study: iPad to Metro style app
Asbury Agile 2012 Conference
Asbury Agile has launched the site for their second conference, which takes place in Asbury Park, the The Boss' stomping grounds, on October 3, 2012. I'm honored to be one of the guest speakers, to give a talk on interface sketching. There'll be an awesome cast of speakers including Chris Ackermann, Matt Bango, Brad Frost, Sasha Laundy, Kenneth Reitz, Tomer Sharon, Rob Spectre, Srjdjan Strbanovic. Early bird tickets are now available (save $50).
Asbury Agile is a friendly, single track conference for web professionals and students to gather, share ideas, learn, and connect with their peeps. The event lakes place at Watermark, in Asbury Park, NJ. You can follow @asburyagile for event updates.
The video from last year's conference looks like it's a manageable, intimate event that draws a great crowd from the NJ/NYC web development community. I'm excited not only because I grew up in NJ, but I'm also looking forward to chatting with people about interface sketching, and learn from everyone I meet. I will likely be posting some of my thoughts in a new Sketch section I'm working on for the Konigi wiki. Stay tuned.