tGIF: Francoise Gamma

You’re probably aware, due to your keen, beautiful eyes, that we have pulled down last weeks GIF and put up another. This one, although not as disturbing as the Finger Licking Jam guy with Oranges on His Head, still makes …

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How great are movie titles?

  So great! Some spectacular examples exist out there in the world, and I’m sure you have your favourites. Mine? Well, Hitchcock had Saul Bass by his side to create some of the most memorable and beautiful titles I have …

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The Trashcam Project

One thing I recently came across thanks to good.is is the Trashcam Project which was started in March of this year. A group of workers teamed up with a local creative agency in Hamburg, Germany. Now they’re documenting the city …

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Martini night: Donna Spencer on card sorting

Donna Spencer from Maad Mob was our guest speaker at Martini Night this Tuesday.

With a few hours up her sleeve before her flight home, Donna taught us the basic principles of card sorting – setting up, running a card sort and some tips for analysing the results and turning it into a usable information architecture. Jill, Mike and Teresa got their hands dirty and did a quick card sorting exercise on the night too.

Donna gives us the low-down on some key principles

And off we go!

Tonight's spread

 

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Donna’s a freelance user experience designer who specialises in large, messy websites; and large, messy  business applications. She has written three books – on card sorting, web writing, and information architecture. In her spare times she runs UX Australia, an annual user experience conference.

 

tGIF: Dain Fagerholm

To accompany our regular tGIF this week, I thought I would do a post about the artist who created it, Dain Fagerholm. Not only are his illustrations beautiful, that faux-3D oscillating effect (or whatever it’s called) is spectacular. The GIF …

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The Dumpster Project

Brooklyn-based collage artist Mac Premo was preparing to move from his longtime studio to a much smaller one. Instead of simply tossing most things in the bin, he decided to catalog each item and the memories associated with them. The …

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