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Physical materials have been rapidly reinvented and rethought in the last year. Companies are getting smarter about the consumption of energy/materials, being able to repurpose what would have been thought of as waste as a source of energy/resources, etc..

"Behind every classic of design lies some innovation in materials or fabrication. So what materials will tomorrow's brilliant new products be made from? Material Connexion, a materials library for designers, has just unveiled its inaugural MEDIUM awards, for the best materials of the year. The grand-prize winner and the 11 honorable mentions will then be shown in January at the Material Connexion showroom in New York. Here's an exclusive sneak peek of a few of those mind-bending innovations."

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Wow - quite the collection for those looking to improve their presentations, information design, branding, and on and on.

"Let’s face it: the majority of presentations given today, whether in business, government or academia, leave audiences cold, if not asleep. It doesn’t have to be that way."

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Very interesting - Silverlight-based interface to explore various UX patterns, such as Inline validation (with 6 examples). It's really driving me crazy that more sites don't provide instant, inline validation, among other things. How about auto-lookup of city, state based on the zip code and country? (sigh) Nice collection. Well worth some exploration

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Why re-invent? Examine a collection of existing design patterns that others have already winnowed, and steal, er, learn from working models.

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Interesting hosted collaboration solution, used primarily for rapid feedback on "designer-oriented" content, such as logos, web designs, etc.. Upload comment you'd like feedback on, invite those you want feedback from, they mark it up (overlay) and/or com

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Image-editing via SaaS. Exploring the full possibilities of going "all in" for SaaS, hosted, or cloud options. Found this to be a bit buggy, but then again, I have 70 tabs open in Firefox.

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Stumbled onto this solution today - so much of collaboration is about providing a generic "knowledge worker" environment, but there can easily be a need for a more specialized environement. ProtoShare is a website wireframing and prototyping tool, wrapped

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Huge collection of video for the presentations given at the Interaction 08 conference this year. Was looking for slide decks for some reference points, but full video is a nice surprise.

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Well done presentation on common design patterns used in forming and fostering online communities. Good advice.

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Intriguing blog by Brenda Brathwaite, a gaming legend I'm interviewing, stay tuned for the interview (currently in progress).

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Keep circling back to gaming and what addictive games might bring to other interactions.

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Here's a site I don't view nearly often enough. If you admire (and aspire) to understandable, and even pleasing information presentation (ala Tufte, for example), you need to go here. Now! Really!

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More prediction market (sort of) fun. Not clear to me why this should be stand-alone outside of a Facebook application - although the "mashup" of the poll respondents and their geographic location on a map is a nice twist.

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Brought to my attention by Ed Gandorf at MapInfo. Interesting collection and peek into a huge array of visualization methods. Many ways to show data, strategize, paint timelines, etc.. Reminds me - if you haven't been to one of Tufte's one-day courses - g

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Some nice animated optical illusions, set to music

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Great article discussing how 4 grad students created 50 games during one semester - and each game from idea to final design in under 7 days. Lessons to be learned re: agility in the enterprise!

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Wow, this reminds me of Escher artwork, but is a real pedestrian bridge.

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Christina Wodtke is at work on this venture - looks interesting, come back to this and take a deeper look.

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Nice collection of screenshots of "inspirational" web designs

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The 40 classical TRIZ principles, with examples - from an engineering standpoint

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