Interaction Designing
I work in the area of financial data visualization. I study innovation, project management and entrepreneurship. This is my online notebook.
KAREN LOInteraction designer in Vancouver. Digital & film photographer. Loves to draw, bake, read non-fiction.I used Twitter Bootstrap (which is still buggy) to make my latest responsive website. I had more elements to design but I feel that its still a bit clunky to use. There were still a few unresolved bugs on their end of which I had to spend time working around (or Googling it to discover that it was their bug not mine). On average it takes about 25%-50% more work to make the responsive version of a website - also depends on level of complexity of the content and how much polish you want. I think I polish a bit too much sometimes.
Next project I’m going to try using Foundation (by Zurb) instead. We’ll see how that goes! Meanwhile, please check out Mintfoto which helps couples find the perfect wedding photographer. Do the Photographer Style Quiz to matchmake with 100+ photographers listed from Vancouver and Toronto.
Seth Godin and other cultural mavens on the psychology and sociology of branding.
Fluid dynamics for the artistically inclined: To create his astounding Black Hole series, which shows paint modeled by centripetal force, photographer Fabian Oefner dripped various shades of acrylic paint onto a metallic rod connected to a drill. Once the drill is switched on, the paint swirls away from the rod, creating astounding structures. Oefner writes:
The motion of the paint happens in a blink of an eye, the images you see are taken only millisecond after the drill was turned on. To capture the moment, where the paint forms that distinctive shape, I connected a sensor to the drill, which sends an impulse to the flashes. These specialized units are capable of creating flashes as short as a 1/40000 of a second, freezing the motion of the paint.
West Kowloon project in Hong Kong
Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook by Adam Frampton, Jonathan D Solomon and Clara Wong.
Axonometric maps revealing Hong Kong’s multi-layered elevated walkways, ramps, elevators and infrastructure interchanges. Definitely enbiggen.
(read more on the guardian and randomwire)
bjk5:
The hover effects on Amazon’s big ‘ole “Shop by Department” mega dropdown are super fast. Look’it how quick each submenu fills in as your mouse moves down the list:
It’s instant. I got nerd sniped by this. Most dropdown menus have to include a bit of a delay when activating submenus….
Sometimes people just want to know the answer.
Here are some tools that designers use to help with the ideation phase of a project - creative problem solving + lateral thinking! (from here)
Mental Notes
keywords: psychology, motivation, game mechanics, behavioral economics
“Mental Notes brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool. Each card describes one insight into human behavior and suggests ways to apply this to the design of Web sites, Web apps, and software applications.” (sample cards)
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ThinkCube
keywords: brainstorming, ideation, SCAMPER
“ThinkCube, a new idea generation tool from Kes Sampanthar, takes the idea of a brainstorming card deck to the next level. Not only does it provide you with a diverse selection of thought-provoking stimuli, it also incorporates a simple innovation process that should result in a higher quality of ideas.” (about ThinkCube: Handbook & card samples)
ThinkPak
keywords: ideation, brainstorming, SCAMPER, creative thinking
“This pack of brainstorming cards was developed to assist people in stimulating their creativity and foster new and different ideas. It is a tool for coming up with creative ideas for developing new (or changing existing) products, services, names, businesses, processes, marketing materials, etc.” (google books preview)
