We have created a one-stop, travel-agent-defying algorithm that considers; your personal interests, the weather, your preferred airport, flight times, potential destinations (…including how easy they are to reach), even if there is an event on you might like, and of course not forgetting the cost.
Clever.
User interfaces designed to trick people, or how to detect if the website you’re visiting was built by dicks.
A question that inevitably comes up very early in the process of designing a new app is this: should the interface refer to the user as “your” or “my” when talking about the user’s stuff, as in “my profile” or “your settings”? For a long time, this question ate at my soul. Which is right?
I’m firmly in the yours camp. /via cameron moll (also a yourser)
The best design links, every day.
Follow along with this interactive replay of the second debate, using fact-checks and graphics to take a closer look at attacks and assertions by President Obama and Mitt Romney.
Forget the politics I just dig the design/functionality of this New York Times feature. Great job combining video, text, and a way to navigate the whole thing.
I really dig the LED screen shown at the 19 second mark.
In case you’re starting to miss summer.
Hmmmm … should my condo smell of hunting lodge or distillery? /via uncrate.com
A most beautiful gas station, I’d almost feel better paying $3.50 a gallon here … almost.
We can’t focus so much on technology that we forget the web is often, and quite gloriously, a transaction between reader and writer.
— Jeffrey Zeldman from Web Design Manifesto 2012. If you work with websites in an capacity (sales, development, management, design, content, etc.) you should read this.
