The Museum of Lost Interactions… About MoLI
"Welcome to the museum of lost interaction; a timeline of innovation. Nine exhibits ranging from 1900 to 1979, comprising audio recording machines, wireless morse communicators, portable video to the precurser behind iTunes. The museum holds an inspirational array of invention, guaranteed never to have been found, documented or exhibited [...]
xkcd - Flow Charts
A guide to understanding flow charts, presented in flow chart form
(tags: visualisation humour)
"You wouldn't buy our shitty cars. So we'll be taking your money anyway"
Satirical advert about the impending bailout of the three largest American automobile manufacturers
(tags: images politics)
The three laws of great graphs - Seth Godin
I've got a big presentation coming up this Friday and am elbow-deep in Powerpoint. In this post Seth Godin proposes three [...]
BBC still don't get external links - BBC Journalism Labs blog
The BBC have long been criticised (including by the BBC Trust) for not providing useful, effective links to external sites. Earlier this year it ran an experiment using Apture to give users "previews" of external sites - in popup windows, oddly enough. One wonders why [...]
Store ยป eCommerce Developers (Page 1 of 2) | Web Retailer
A list of ecommerce providers. Exciting, eh?
(tags: ecommerce)
Divorce or Counselling?: Retailers next move in eCommerce
Detailed piece from Derek Dunlop at Conchango about evaluating ecommerce platforms and formulating strategies for future direction & investment
(tags: ecommerce retail)
LBi confirms redundancies in design and build departments
LBi is the UK's largest digital marketing agency and a competitor of ours. It's just laid off 17 of its 420-strong workforce - the layoffs affected the design and build disciplines. Ewen Sturgeon, the CEO, seems to indicate that the redundancies are pre-emptive and not reactive
(tags: layoffs economics08)
Online Shopping to Plateau As Slump Hits Cyberspace - WSJ.com
Christoper Lawton of the Wall Street Journal on expected performance of online retail in the 2008 peak season. In recent years retailers have seen double-digit year-on-year revenue growth. Until recently there had been a hope that growth would be only slightly diminished by the economic downturn [...]
Interview with Brian Oakes
Brian Oakes was the graphic designer behind the infographics on IOUSA, a film that achieves the near-impossible in explaining the US national debt and problem it poses. This is an interview with him
(tags: infographics economics visualisation)
Will the Real Information Architect Please Stand Up? - SlideShare
An engaging and entertaining presentation by Gail Leija that explores who information architects are as well as what it is that they actually do.
(tags: ia presentation)