The FWA: Favourite Website Awards
15th August 2009
Web Awards recognising the very best in cutting edge website design.
via thefwa.com
How do hardware and people connect?
Web Awards recognising the very best in cutting edge website design.
via thefwa.com
A curatorial platform exploring the use of generative strategies and software processes in digital art, architecture and design. It focuses on a new generation of artists and designers who embrace code as a way of producing new forms of creative expression.… Read more “Generator x”
All manner of distractions. Made using Processing.
via flight404.com and roberthodgin.com
The landmark exhibition Design and the Elastic Mind explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world by bringing together design objects and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive consideration of human limitations, habits, and aspirations.… Read more “Design and the Elastic Mind (MoMA)”
Build, CRAFT, hack, play, MAKE. Maker Faire is a two-day, family-friendly event that celebrates the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) mindset. Its for creative, resourceful people of all ages and backgrounds who like to tinker and love to make things.
via makerfaire.com
Pixelsumo is a site devoted to sonic art, audiovisual fusion, physical interaction, open source technologies, hacking video game culture, responsive environments & installations.
via pixelsumo.com
Fumbling haplessly while trying to open a compact disc or a packet of ham? November 3 is World Usability Day. Usability is the secret to making things work better.
… Read more “World Usability Day”“The world has so far to go in making technology usable” – Tom Stewart, Usability expert.
The Visual Thesaurus takes a unique, and remarkably beautiful, approach to presenting the results of a word lookup. Discover and learn from nearly 140,000 words, meanings and relationships.
“we are a multidisciplinary design agency formed by extraterrestrial life forms.”
“next to exploring new worlds and galaxies in outer space we work on projects from electronic media to print media, from multimedia to crossmedia. nothing is like the way we go: we are what we like to be: passionate, free and young.… Read more “nothing media lab”
“Usable” information technology – includes ‘Voodoo Usability’. Dr. Jakob Nielsen established the “discount usability engineering” movement for fast and cheap improvements of user interfaces and has invented several usability methods, including heuristic evaluation. He holds 79 United States patents, mainly on ways of making the Internet easier to use.… Read more “useit.com: Jakob Nielsen’s Website”
“…user interface design must be driven by deep architectural issues and not just new graphical appearances: interfaces are structure, not image.”
Bruce Horn (co-creator of the Macintosh)
via folklore.org
Ted Kaczynski’s treatise on technology and its effects.
via amazon.com
