“But how good is the work?”
Adrian Shaughnessy for the Creative Review visits Wolff Olins, the company he was critical of due to their Olympics 2012 logo… and has his expectations confounded.
Edward Tufte on the iPhone
“Small screens, as on traditional cell phones, show very little information per screen, which in turn leads to deep hierarchies of stacked-up thin information–too often leaving users with ‘Where am I?’ puzzles. Better to have users looking over material adjacent in space rather than stacked in time.” One of the leading lights of the design world, Edward Tufte, has casts his eye over the iPhone and how it deals with information on a small screen.
Christian’s day at Terminal 5
Our airport and aeroplane loving colleague Christian recently spent a day at Heathrow’s new Terminal 5.
Global DataPoint corporate site goes live
We’re pleased to announce the launch of Global DataPoint’s corporate website. Global DataPoint are the supplier of the most comprehensive events database in the UK, and are now expanding their operations to data feeds of international arts events. This is the third element of our ongoing work with the company – the first being an overhaul of their brand, and the second being an overhaul of their event search user interface (screenshots of which can be seen around the site). We have developed the site from the ground up from initial design concepts through to a full CMS backend. Many thanks to everyone who has been involved in putting it together.
15 January, 2008
User Determined Computing
‘User Determined Computing’ is the rather clunky Accenture created phrase for the situation where people are fed-up with their work-based technologies as their home-based technologies are easier and better.
The robots really are taking over
How the cheap and plentiful technologies that power ‘Web 2.0’ may be leading to a drop in the job market. The early paranoid fear that computers and robots are taking our jobs might finally be coming true. Between 2001 and 2007 “online employment had actually dropped 29%”. This is Nick Carr’s thesis as explained in The Guardian.
Things we like: New York Magazine’s events interface
Recently on our CIH Housing and Global DataPoint projects we have been investigating best practices for presenting and explaining events – a deceptively complex issue. Via the 37 Signals blog we came across New York Magazine’s Agenda interface.