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by GBKS 16y ago
You may not like the idea of the book or the approach, but the site is executed with amazing detail. From the design to the animations, to the use of local storage to work offline, remembering which pages you have visited, window.history, t
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The data visualization realm might be something for you. Take a look at Stamen Design for inspiration ( http://stamen.com ). There is so much more interesting data than maps and Flickr photos out there, from government data to the data that
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Isn't this basically how Scrum works in agile development? We're doing this at work and include our direct client contacts as well (daily 15 minute conference call). It helps immensely in avoiding communication issues arising from different
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Two things come to mind for me. Flash 6 was how I learned programming. I realized I could create visual patterns and animations through code that I could never do by hand. The visuals were my goal, coding was what I had to learn on the way.
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Game mechanics are everywhere, even when they are displayed by colorful illustrations and badges. From friend counts in Facebook, to Karma in HN, time pressure in Groupon and leaderboards in Digg. Here's a great overview over game mechanics
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I take the same approach of a diversified, low-cost ETF portfolio, but a different allocation than you have. Googling for "lazy portfolio" is a good starting point to find out more about this. In general, I prefer to think about "saving for
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// Don't even ask Found years ago in Adobe's ActionScript core classes.
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IE8 has actually never worked for me since it came out. It takes forever to start up and gets stuck loading any page so I never get beyond a white screen. IE9 can only be a step forward.
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I'm very curious to try this out. I didn't use Twitter until I discovered Tweetie, since the website was just too much manual labor. The UI is such a crucial piece of the Twitter experience so I hope this will be a nice, big boost for Twitt
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Twitter Redesigned (screenshots)(fastcompany.com)
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Erosion of trust due to lack of user control is the only real issue I see outside of guesses like "people will get tired of it". The way Facebook connects data and people is very clever. There is lot going on behind the scenes that you neve
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I do agree with this in some points. My main complaint with US universities (from my experience) is lack of focus on producing the brightest people possible. It's simply too easy to be "undecided" for 3 years and end up with a wishy-washy d
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I'm in Columbus as well, working remotely for an interactive firm in NY ( http://f-i.com ). Not in the startup scene per se, I'm in the same realm. I can't recommend any people in specific (my personal network is not local), but here are so
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How about pulling off what OXO did? They realized their products cut be copied and sold at a cheaper price. So they created their own competition. Just made a worse design, used cheaper materials, slapped on a new brand and put both lines o
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Great to hear that they have a solid team of advisors and that they are putting the user experience first. With open-source I am always a bit concerned that design and experience are secondary. Diaspora has a great story going on right now,
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This seems to be a somewhat common practice. A pro football player (A.J. Hawk) just bought the apartment complex next door (bank shortsale). I was told he has bought several properties, fixes them up and rents them out to pay for his retire
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I actually think Facebook has a decent grip of this spam problem. Your news feed doesn't show you all the events that happen, only a limited set. They figure out which people you interact with more, which updates get more attention, etc and
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Short answer: Yes, after talking to him in person and making sure he's a social fit, too. If it's of interest, we hired him from Hyperisland ( http://www.hyperisland.se ), a school in Sweden focused on interactive design and development. Th
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I work with him ( http://f-i.com ) and he is an incredibly talented interactive developer. His work, and these demos show an extreme attention to detail and an incredibly nice, human touch to interaction and motion. Alright, I'll stop. Just
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How about these scenarios? "721 people are gathering five blocks down? One of them posted a picture. Oh, looks like there is a free concert happening in the park? Let me check that out." "355 people at grocery store? Maybe I'll wait until i
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Geo has so much potential and it looks like Facebook is working super hard to integrate this in a useful way. Checking in just to say "I'm at X" is just not interesting. Making location a part of a story (party, vacation, location where pic
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He more I think about his statements, the more they seem like non-sense. What does your wife do when you change your name? What about your credit card, passport and mortgage? It took 10 months for the German government to get me a new pass
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I'd say something like "Last week I build a website where you can do x and y. Somebody just did z on it and it was so cool because of...". Frame it in practical real-world terms and present it as an exciting, high-tech thing you're doing. D
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My wife is like that for a specific reason. While I do a lot of coding and development, it's not really my main interest. My main interest is making awesome interactive experiences. Programming is my hammer. I know how to use it, but I pref
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Isn't that more a clever technique than a mystery?
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Read like link bait. Please change the title. Battery charging is not in the realm of secrets and mysteries.
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So it sounds like every time there is a decent-sized online community, media feels the need to plant somebody to repost content and engage in conversations? Is this only done for Twitter and Facebook (and now Tumblr), or does this also appl
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New York and Stockholm http://f-i.com/fi/careers We're looking for interactive developers, UX people and producers. We do a mix of projects from portal sites like ea.com, atari.com, mobile and tablet apps and more.
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My best ideas come from playing and tinkering and being engaged in the fields that interest me. That way, complete product concepts and prototypes form, not just ideas. Also nothing wrong with small web apps. A solid one-person app can pay
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That really depends on the magazine then. If you're talking about a Wired app that boasts 500 MB, then yes, you want to download it first. For most news and articles though, where the app would be just a re-hash of the website or where the

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