It’s Not Peanut Butter
In the late 90s I was working with a web producer (remember those?) who insisted on saying, “JIF.” I finally snapped. “It’s GIF, not JIF! It stands for Graphics Interchange Format. Note the word is ‘graphics,’ not ‘giraffics.’” To which he wisely replied, “Who cares?” He’s absolutely right. Nonetheless, watching this cute video about the ...
Information Architecture According to Dinosaurs
“So what, exactly, do you do?” Every information architect dreads this question. Fear not, now you can just point your inquisitors to this little gem:
NY Times Paywall Pricing
After the New York Times introduced its new digital subscription pricing policies, there was much confusion. Frankly, even the NY Times’ own explanations are a bit baffling. Therefore, I’ve created the quickie infographic above in order to (hopefully) clarify things. (You can click it to see a larger version.)
Speaking of Button Placement…
I love this image (from Alan Cooper via Jeff Atwood’s Coding Horror blog), not least because of the dog jet pilot, but mostly because it so poignantly demonstrates why button placement matters. For more, read Atwood’s excellent entry, The Opposite of Fitt’s Law.
What Type Are You?
Pentagram has a developed an online psychoanalytic tool (the password is “character”) to help you determine which typeface best represents your personality. It’s four simple questions, and the format of the test will surprise you. According to this, I am New Alphabet form Wim Crouwel. (Here is Mr. Crouwel from the movie Helvetica describing how ...
Wordle
Wordle will generate those interesting word-cloud images you see around the Web from words you paste or URLs you provide. On top of that, you can modify a lot of settings to customize your image. The cloud above was generated from the words on the home page of this blog as of January 2, 2010.
Old Debate, New Approach
Are Mac people really different than PC people? Hunch wanted to find out, so they used their impressive assessment engine to poll visitors to their site. First, they asked people whether they self-identified as a Mac or a PC person; then, each visitor was asked the same series of preference questions. The results are interesting, ...
The Encabulator
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you The Retro (or Turbo) Encabulator: quite simply, the greatest invention of all time. (And certainly one of the best industry inside jokes ever. Scroll down for the full text version!) And, as a special bonus, the actual copy: Here at Rockwell Automation’s ...
