WTHR: A SIMPLER MORE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER APP

A beautifully simple piece of UI design inspired by Braun’s Dieter Rams – who as you know is the inspiration behind many of the Apple’s products.

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WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER

On the 30th of September 2011, in front of a sell-out theatre at the BFI in London, Charlie Kaufman delivered the final lecture in BAFTA’s 2011 Screenwriters’ Lecture Series.

Full 70 minute Lecture

TWITTER ACTIVITY DURING EURO 2012

I like the way you can track the action during a game via the peaks of troughs of these. More here

TED BOOKS APP

As a long time fan of TED talks this looks like a great idea – something for the train.

LOVELY UI – SEE WHAT YOU PRINT

Artefact created a radically simple printer concept called SWYP. See What You Print. Learn more

PHYSICAL EMAIL

I’ve been thinking about some sort of physical email for sometime now. Something that recaptures the tactile nature of receiving a letter while maintaining the convenience of email.

I stumbled upon this the other day – genius.

Tableau: physical email from John Kestner

TYPICAL PRICE – GOOGLE HOTEL FINDER

Lots of people are talking about Google’s new hotel finder, one thing I thought was really clever was this.

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Books Ngram Viewer

I’m sure I’m pretty late to the party on this one, but what a great tool for researching social trends –  Google Ngram viewer.

Search occurrences of words in books published over the past 200 years. Although obviously it is only the books scanned by Googles Books Project (a pretty amazing thing in it self).

Even better you can compare occurrences of different words. To me this seems like a great way to search and understand social trends over an extend time frame (i.e. before the internet)

Here is my comparison of art vs design, (design in blue) interestingly since the late 70s design has begun to be mentioned more frequently – what does this mean?

 

It’s also worth doing the same comparison on Google Trends and also Blog Pluse to get an idea of trends right now.