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This could be useful at some point

By slawrence • Aug 25th, 2008 • Category: Technology, design

A nice photoshop template for iPhone mockups. With more and more services being geared toward mobile platforms this could be very useful soon.



Textual visualization

By slawrence • Aug 21st, 2008 • Category: Project Management, Systems, design, music

I am a huge fan of data visualization. Here is a nice overview of some interesting textual visualization techniques. Other than tag clouds this rather new to me. Personally, I find this literary organism maps rather aesthetically interesting.



Great example of org design

By slawrence • Aug 17th, 2008 • Category: Art, Systems, design

Leave it to the people at Walt Disney to be pioneers in information design. Here is a Disney org chart from 1943. It captures both teams and process. It’s a very sophisticated bit of information design, in my opinion.



UX for non-profits

By slawrence • Jun 15th, 2008 • Category: Information Architecture

http://www.uxsocial.org/
This is a promising development. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about User Experience and non-profit communications and operations. I will need to keep an eye on this to see how they progress.



New look coming

By Sean • Dec 20th, 2005 • Category: design

http://lucidvagary.com/lvnew1A1.jpg
We had a baby 8 months ago and were finishing up the rehab on the house but I plan on moving this site from Movable Type to Wordpress, B2evolution, or Joomla. I just need to get the strategy for the site refigured.
I also, apparently, need to make sure that the new site is SPAM-FREE. [...]



Taxonomy!

By Sean • Aug 8th, 2003 • Category: design

Alright, so I haven’t had the time to work on this yet, but I thought I would at least give a head up. What I intend to do is establish a taxonomy so that the posts here can be categorized so if visitors find one post interesting they will be able to explore similar [...]



Plans

By Sean • Aug 6th, 2003 • Category: design

So here’s what I intend to do for this site. I need to add a footer with redundant navigation, beef up the right nav with archive links, org links, and other items. Once I get a new scanner, I will be adding a photos link to the primary nav. I also want [...]