I was just struck by how similar my GMail experience was to the ReMail work that the CUE team at IBM Research published in 2003. The experiences are different. But the integration of the GCalendar, live names (think GTalk status), thread size and threaded messages, thread visualization (reminds me of Rapportive), collection categorization (a combination of [...]
The good folks at Fast Company sourced an interesting visualization from futurist Michell Zappa and the Envisioning Tech crew. Lots of science fiction, but it provides an interesting analysis based on the breaking down of information silos. Follow @envisioningtech “This visualization is an exercise in speculating about which individual technologies are likely to affect the scenario [...]
The team at VisionMobile have updated their Developer Economics 2010 and Beyond research report with an infographic that describes the decisions a mobile develop makes from app design and platform selection to go to market and monetization.
The team at Focus.com has provided a fun infographic about the operating costs for a startup in New York versus San Francisco. Toronto for Comparison Coporate Income Tax Rate - Small Business 15.5% Canada – 11% Ontario – 4.5% Salaries for Employees Software Engineer – $75,000 Executive Assistant – $35,000 Graphic Designer – $50,000 Project Manager – $75,000 [...]
Dave McClure and the 500 Startups folks are producing a great looking conference focused on “hack-tics” of customer acquistion. They ran a similar event in April 2010 in SF. – check out tthe presentations on SlideShare and the feedback. At the event speakers provided examples based on real usage and data. David Cowling provided a [...]
The Atlantic has published a great Boom or Bubble infographic that was created by the team at KISSmetrics (you should really follow @hnshah or @kissmetrics).
I updated my Open Source Icons post earlier to include updated list of icons. The interesting part was this brought up some great mobile design and development resources. With the list of available mobile icons being just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. Speckboy provides an unprecedented list of resources for mobile developers and designers it [...]
Mozilla Labs has announced their Winter 2009 Design Challenge. It is focused on improving the starting experience for the “Home tab” for Firefox users. In the upcoming releases of Firefox, we’ll move the Home button to be a “Home tab” instead. We will keep the existing functionality where you can display a web page of [...]
I’m looking for a young web designer. This is for paid contract work. The position will be to help design and implement the front-ends for a number of web properties including DavidCrow.ca, DemoCamp.com, FoundersandFunders.org, StartupNorth.ca, StartupIndex.ca, StartupIndex.ca, etc. Basically, the majority of the work is visual design and front-end web implementation. The goal is to [...]
My friend and colleague, August de los Reyes, was in Toronto over the past few days. He spoke at two of our local institutions that have a very strong footing in the design and design thinking worlds (OCAD & Rotman). At the end of his presentation on emotion, August showed a video from the Envisioning [...]