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Apple’s design process
Business Week on Apple’s design process: Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other...
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What makes a good airport?
BBC News Magazine reports: After 20 years trying to get off the runway, Heathrow’s Terminal 5 is about to open and promises a better experience for passengers. But what kind of features can make...
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Captioning Sucks!
The Open & Closed Project, which focuses on accessible media, turns its sights on captioning on TV and DVD: Not enough of it! Broadcasters, movie studios, and pretty much everybody else have spent...
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MindNode – Free mind mapping for Leopard
A new, free, Mindmapping application! MindNode is a free Leopard-only mind mapping application from Markus Müller, based in Austria. The application is by no means feature-rich; in fact, it’s so...
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Why is public signage failing? – Design Week
Interesting article from Design Week: The phrase ‘to have lost one’s way’ is often applied to people who have become anxious, confused and vulnerable. Although meant metaphorically, it’s no coincidence...
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Making sense of news in the information age
Roy Greenslade at The Guardian offers some select quotes from a recent report from the Columbia Journalism Review on the future of news organisations. They present some interesting perspectives on the...
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Think statistics are boring? Think again…
You can prove pretty much anything with statistics, but one of the problems with all those numbers, percentages, quartiles and so on is that they don’t look very interesting. Take a look at this short...
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Information Design on Newsnight. Shame it turned in to a fight…
Information graphics got a rare primetime outing when Newsnight discussed David McCandless’s book Information is Beautiful. You can watch the fight discussion on iPlayer for the next few days. Sadly...
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BBC Four: The Beauty of Diagrams and The Joy of Stats
BBC Four has been showing a great series over the past few weeks called The Beauty of Diagrams. The first three parts have looked at Da Vinci’s Vetruvian Man, Copernicus’s depiction of the solar...
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