Links for 2009-03-05
- A Pattern Language (HTML Summary) [Christopher Alexander via Downlode.org] – HTML summary of “A Pattern Language” book by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, Murray Silverstein, with Max Jacobson, Ingrid Fiksdahl-King and Shlomo Angel.
- Searching through NY Times Articles via Elastic Lists [Information Aesthetics - Mar 03, 2009] – The “Elastic List” faceted navigation concept proposed by Moritz Stefaner has been nicely demonstrated for exploring the information behind the past Noble price winners. The new NY Times Article Search [moritz.stefaner.eu] project transposes this concept to the recently released NY Times Article Search API, which covers over two million articles.
- In Which a Concept Model Makes Me Giddy [User Interface Engineering - Mar 04, 2009] – Dan Brown, who wrote the now classic book, Communicating Design: Developing Web Site Documentation for Design and Planning, recommends concept maps to help team members visualize the relationships between a design’s components and the people who use it.
- Good design: The ten commandments of Dieter Rams [Vitsoe] – Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? As good design cannot be measured in a finite way he set about expressing the ten most important criteria for what he considered was good design. Subsequently they have become known as the ‘Ten commandments’.
- AddressBookSync Adds Facebook Friend Photos to Your Address Book Contacts [Downloads] – Free application AddressBookSync pulls contact photos and birthdays from your Facebook account and syncs them with Address Book, so you’ll always nice photos assigned to your contacts (and hopefully never miss another birthday).
- iPhone gets CBS shows for free with TV.com app – CBS’ TV.com and NBC Universal and News Corp.’s Hulu have been in the tech news foreground this week, revealing their struggle to meaningfully coexist on the PC screen. Meanwhile, the mobile device screen presents a different set of challenges, which TV.com today has officially addressed.
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