Archive for March, 2008

links for 2008-03-31

Perspective 2.0: Collection: Emerging futures
(tags: BoP emergingmarkets design)

Design4Billions : KnowledgeFramework
(tags: design research BoP)

Long View [ Biotechnology Milestones, 08000BC - 02022 ]
(tags: biotechnology energy history project science social)

similicio.us - find similar sites
(tags: tools del.icio.us searchengine tagging)

links for 2008-03-29

Empathy as a Tool for Social Impact - IDEO — Social Edge
(tags: empathy design socialentrepreneurship)

visualcomplexity.com | VisLink: Revealing Relationships Amongst Visualizations
(tags: graphs visualization data)

Micromanaging yourself

Lately, in the vein of a project I’m working on with Sri, I’ve been thinking a lot about analytics as it relates to personal growth and development.
Enterprises have used dashboards because, as the cliche goes, knowledge and information is power. And the credibility and confidence to make the right decisions. (ignore the fact [...]

links for 2008-03-24

What Microloans Miss: Financial Page: The New Yorker
(tags: Microfinance finance development poverty economics)

Clickatell Ruby API
(tags: ruby rails rubyonrails sms)

links for 2008-03-21

Putting people first » Videos of Interaction 08 presentations now online
(tags: design Interaction innovation presentation video)

Theocacao: Writing Modern Copy for Product Pages
(tags: writing marketing content business)

links for 2008-03-19

KPCB - iFund™ Initiative
(tags: iphone startup money apple funding)

The ultimate killer widget

What’s the deal? Everyone’s all hype about widgets lately.
While showering, I took a second to dream about what the ultimate killer widget would be if designed for yours truly.
First of all, none of this web app widget stuff. I already have enough tabs open in my firefox, thank you. I’d much rather [...]

links for 2008-03-17

Technology in emerging economies | Of internet cafés and power cuts | Economist.com
(tags: Technology development internet education BoP)

The prefab gets a makeover - Los Angeles Times
(tags: architecture design prefab modernism)

wundrbar
(tags: search semantic tools textbased)

Online confessions

Confession on Good Friday
flickr:felber

Recently, I blogged about how designers might embrace the coming move (I think exodus might be too strong a word) towards virtuality. I mentioned that this might be a good stage to understand people, their interactions (and ultimately their motivations and emotions) for design purposes. [...]

links for 2008-03-14

frontline: the persuaders: watch online | PBS
(tags: marketing documentary Media)

if for some reason, you ever liked hillary

check this out.

despicable.

The shelves at Trader Joe’s

I took this picture of the shelf (I guess that’s all you can really call it) while standing in the queue at Trader Joe’s. For the uninitiated, Trader Joe’s is a fabulous grocery store for people who want Whole Foods variety without the exorbitant price tag. sidenote: this is how I end [...]

links for 2008-03-11

Visualizing: tracing an aesthetics of data - we make money not art
(tags: visualization design information data)

links for 2008-03-10

UNdata
(tags: statistics data UN reference resources)

How to turn your photo into movie-like effect using Photoshop? « ebin
(tags: photoshop photography howto design)

Africans to Bono: ‘For God’s sake please stop!’ — The American, A Magazine of Ideas

(tags: Africa politics economics government)

63 Essential Wordpress Hacks, Tutorials, Help Files and Cheats | Speckyboy - Wordpress and Design
(tags: wordpress hack [...]

links for 2008-03-09

Library Garden: Talk Good: Giving Effective Presentations
(tags: presentations speaking powerpoint tutorials)

Our Favorite Typefaces of 2007 | Typographica
(tags: typography design inspiration)

VoiceThread - About - Featuring
(tags: collaboration multimedia audio)

Create free online surveys and polls with PollDaddy.com - Use our award winning survey software to conduct your market research.
(tags: polls survey web2.0)



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