Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
August 2, 2014
concept model / design / user experience
A concept model is a visual representation of a set of ideas that clarifies the concept for both the thinker and the audience. It is a useful and powerful tool for user experience designers but also for business, engineering, and marketing… basically anyone who needs to communicate complexity. Which is most of us, these days.
August 1, 2014
design / prototyping / user experience
The key to it is that it takes time and sustained focus on a problem to really understand it…to see it from different angles and to grok it fully. For me this becomes easier when you prototype and test often…when you watch people use your product over and over again enough so that you see the usage patterns that aren’t obvious.
August 1, 2014
A Good User Interface has high conversion rates and is easy to use. In other words, it’s nice to both the business side as well as the people using it.
August 1, 2014
richard-beck / theology / universalism
Specifically, the most common argument you hear objecting to universal reconciliation in Christ is the assumption that this vision must involve some act of coercion on God’s part. The objection is that if everyone is eventually reconciled to God then at some point God would have to force certain people in some form or fashion.
August 1, 2014
For most of my career I’ve had to battle designers creating incredibly unrealistic best-case scenario mock-ups. You know what I’m talking about. The user’s name is “Sara Smith” and always fits neatly on one line. Her profile picture looks like it was clipped out of a magazine. Her profile is completely filled out. The two columns of her profile content magically are exactly the same height.
August 1, 2014
physics / psychology / richard-beck / theology
If the Self is a symbol–a pattern–that interacts with the world and other minds via feedback loops, then parts of the pattern of that symbol leave copies of itself, mainly upon other minds.
July 31, 2014
apis / content strategy / rest
Have the changes in recent years all been pulling us in different directions, or are they pulling us in the same direction? In fact, viewed through the right lens there is only one change. It’s a change that is fundamental to the Web, and really to all digital information. We just view it through three different lenses, depending on the task at hand.
July 31, 2014
The NPR News Apps team describes the “opinionated” app template they’ve built, which allows them to quickly build production-ready sites.
July 31, 2014
The first and only icon system designed for the modern web with all the tools to make them your own.
July 30, 2014
In Austin, a four year old came up with an idea for a children’s business competition. All of those things are so wonderful, but the idea was to sell lemonade and help honeybees. Brilliant.