Leah Shea's Public Library

Buy stuff in real life and get virtual currency.

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This is the flip perspective to the last Smashing article I linked on Device-Agnostic Approach. If anything being aware of these devices and their sizes may be good background info for us.

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The visuals for this are a bit over the top, but provides several similar features of Serve.

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Children fighting cancer have to deal with chemotherapy, hair loss and hospital stays. Now, an iOS app is taking a bit of the load off their shoulders by making pain diaries — the daily log of their experience with the disease — easier to manage.

Pain Squad is the first iOS app designed for kids with cancer to replace their pain diary in a fun, interactive way.

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Swedish furniture retailer Ikea has revealed an eco-friendly (recyclable) digital camera made almost entirely from cardboard, which will be given away to customers (not sold). This adds to the many firms who are now turning to green, eco-friendly materials for their products - from clothing to home appliances to jewelry. This camera is in conjunction with the launch of a new furniture line for IKEA.

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IDEO has recently launched a site in conjunction with their HCD Toolkit. HCD Connect is an online platform designed specifically for users of human-centered design in the social sector, enabling the power of social storytelling to inspire solutions.

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Web technology information profiler tool. Find out what a website is built with.

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UI paper prototype

Rapid Prototyping of Fluid Layouts, Adaptive CSS and Responsive Design

Fun from Coke

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A linked list of some of the amazing presentation we saw at Interaction 12 in Dublin.

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Factual health message illustrated in a positive and engaging manner.

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More than 25 million Kenyans have mobile phones, making apps a logical way to disseminate essential information about health. MedAfrica, a new smartphone app, has positioned itself as the go-to service for wired Kenyans in search of reputable health care.

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All of the designs profiled here share an ease of use--the hallmark of good UIs. But a new theme has surfaced: wondrous fun. From generative music and art apps to cubes that develop your spatial skills, many of these products combine the UIs more common to video games with mind-challenging play.

We asked some of the leading web and user experience designers in the field for their predictions about what we might expect to see in the web design world in 2012.

The lovely Lis Hubert is featured in this post!

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Occupy Design is a grassroots project connecting designers with on-the-ground demonstrators in the Occupy Together movement. The project’s goal is to create freely available visual tools around a common graphic language to unite the 99%. The project places an emphasis on producing infographics and icons to improve the communication of the movement’s messages and the data surrounding them across the world.

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