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WTHR: A SIMPLER MORE BEAUTIFUL WEATHER APP

mphillips — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:58:13 +0000

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.

WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER

mphillips — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 08:05:50 +0000

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

‘If I can’t picture it, I can’t understand it’ – Albert Einstein

mphillips — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 11:44:54 +0000

TWITTER ACTIVITY DURING EURO 2012

mphillips — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:15:49 +0000

I like the way you can track the action during a game via the peaks of troughs of ...Continue Reading

TED BOOKS APP

mphillips — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 12:43:38 +0000

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

LOVELY UI – SEE WHAT YOU PRINT

mphillips — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:51:03 +0000

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

PHYSICAL EMAIL

mphillips — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:45:00 +0000

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

mphillips — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:55:00 +0000

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

Because hotel prices are not the same from one city to the next, it is difficult to know if you are getting a good deal or not.

Most of us begin the hotel bookings process with a bit of research. We compare a number of hotels to establish the typical price, which we use as a bench mark to compare others to.

This handy little tool does the research for us, it even gives the relative cost in the hotel details (top right)

Hopefully we will see this used a lot more across the internet, real-estate might be a good place to start.

MANHATTAN IN MOTION

mphillips — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:21:00 +0000

Books Ngram Viewer

mphillips — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:37:00 +0000

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.