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The art of competitiveness | The San Diego Union-Tribune

In his book, “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future,” Daniel Pink makes the case that we have entered the Conceptual Age and that certain right-brain skills are essential to economic success

Tags: economy, technology, industry, education, design, culture, art, brain, emotion, intelligence, creativity, book_review on 2008-10-31 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Seedmagazine.com | MIND08 | Henry Markram: Designing the Human Mind

Tags: brain, model, blue_brain, research, technology, computer, design, video on 2008-10-17 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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mezzoblue § Zoom

Tags: design, text, browser on 2008-10-08 and saved by2 people -All Annotations (9) -About

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The implications on a designer are fairly dramatic; page zoom is an attempt to continue accurately rendering the page as it was designed, whereas text scaling simply reflows the text, often causing serious layout problems. With full page zoom, the responsibility for ensuring page integrity and legibility is moved out of the designer’s hands, and placed fully on the browser. With text resizing, the designer needs to be conscientious of the ways their layout will break at different text sizes, and compensate accordingly.
I wonder if the low-vision users who have increased this default font size will see a page that is “broken” from the very start
maybe it’s time to just start designing in pixels and stop worrying about ems.
Personally, I hate page zoom. I often resize text on web pages because my fellow web designers often seem to think that 10 px Arial looks pretty. In fact, I have my multi-button mouse setup with text resize shortcuts… and they get used daily. I’m not old, I just don’t like reading tiny 10 or 11 px text on my 24” monitor. In 13 years of web development, I’ve never built a site that couldn’t resize. However, many websites fail to take resize into account. So as a result of poor coding and amateur developers, we now seem to be stuck with zooming. Ugh.

So… should we still code for resizing? Yes. Of course. Because it’s the right thing to do and it doesn’t take any more effort (if you know what you’re doing).
consider why we use ems, it is because this is the best unit treated relatively by all browsers. The specs, however, define the pixel as relative to the screen resolution. So switching to pixel-based dimensioning
If you design your page with percentages, the page zoom function of modern browsers (IE 7 is an exception here) will scale the text, but not the column width.
“Today, I think those accessibility issues are mostly gone. IE6 usage is on the decline, and I think it’s fair to suggest that most low-vision users who need to resize text probably realized long ago that IE6 didn’t allow them to do so on all websites.”

But unfortunately text sizing continues to fail in both IE7 and even the IE8 beta. Remarkably, this is a glitch that Microsoft kept sticking to for some reason, even when the majority feel as though it’s a bug.
one of the reasons I like sizing with ems, is that it forces you to be flexible – not only for resizing _text_, but for allowing varying amounts of content as well. Blowing up the text was always an easy way to test for the integrity of various design components, answering the question: what will happen if there’s more “stuff” here? Relative units allow for future expansion, last-minute edits, or ham-fisted modifications.
Any time browser technology takes the brunt of solving accessibility issues before they become the designer’s responsibility is a good thing.

10 Finalists Picked in Bike-Rack Contest - City Room

After reviewing more than 200 entries from 24 states and 26 countries, a six-member design jury on Tuesday named 10 finalists in the CityRacks Design Competition to create new, better-looking bicycle parking racks.

See blog for map of finalists' locations.

Tags: bicycle, new_york_city, design on 2008-09-30 -All Annotations (0) -About

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25 Beautiful Minimalistic Website Designs - Part 4 | Vandelay Website Design

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A look at the new GM Volt with designer Bob Lutz - Charlie Rose

EV1? Lutz on shareholders @ 17:00; 18:30 [industry suffers from a lack of people who have an emotional attachment to the market]; 20:00 he's a climate skeptic; 27:50 aligning consumer desires with fuel efficiency standards

Tags: design, automobile, innovation, video, electricity, fuel, industry, psychology, climate_crisis, age, interview on 2008-09-17 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Designers - Six Revisions

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Dulux paint colour range and advice about choosing colours

Tags: design, style, color on 2008-09-15 -All Annotations (0) -About

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A List Apart: Articles: Look at it Another Way

Tags: creativity, model, user_interface, design on 2008-09-11 and saved by9 people -All Annotations (7) -About

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Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Tracking Elections From the Ground Up

note zeldman's critique, the ubiquity of beta-type launches

Tags: election, design, poll, information, data_visualization on 2008-09-02 -All Annotations (0) -About

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visualcomplexity.com | A visual exploration on mapping complex networks

Tags: design, art, complexity, data_visualization, map, social_network on 2008-09-02 and saved by276 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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A List Apart: Articles: Mapping Memory: Web Designer as Information Cartographer

Tags: design, information, architecture, social_network on 2008-08-28 and saved by13 people -All Annotations (4) -About

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The pretty colors of salt evaporation ponds

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Ever Notice?: Gain: AIGA Journal of Business and Design: Design & Business: AIGA

Tags: perception, pattern, photo, photography, design, creativity on 2008-08-27 and saved by5 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Me and You and Everyone We Know, but there was something deeply compelling about how that film took the observation of details and made them dramatic plot points (the tension as we watched a goldfish forgotten on top of a moving vehicle) or character traits (a child who passionately accumulates housewares) or symbolic elements (the clarion call of a wind-blown signpost). There was a lot that made that film engaging, but so much of what kept the viewer moving through the narrative seemed to be in the way July elevated those details.
saying, “Yes, and...,” guides us to notice and act in response to what the rest of the team is doing. It becomes this collaborative problem-solving activity that happens to generate a performance, rather than the typical “stuff from the inside comes out” model of performance.
giving yourself permission to “just be,” to receive without transmitting, makes it possible to really drink in sensory data and to really listen to other people with an incredible kind of unforced compassion.
Noticing definitely draws on a set of skills that these kinds of characters embody and amplify, but at the heart of it you have to genuinely be interested in the world around you and in other people.
what comes out of that is not just that she exists, but what her existence means
the activity of noticing the first one, and documenting it, meant that I was ready to notice and document the second, and beyond. So when we saw the concert crowd and the vans, we were able to connect it: “Oh, this is the performer that we’ve been seeing all the ads for.” This process of trying to figure out what’s going on in a new place, of finding and understanding patterns and themes