Inspiration

For those of you who already have accounts, enjoy the change. For those of you who have never heard of Virb, enjoy a nicely designed social application.

Created by Maya Design

• Build your own preloader.
• Build your own timeline.
• Build your own small URL.
• Build your own chart.
• Build your own form.

• In memory of his birthday, you too can be Jackson Pollock. (Thanks Jon Brown!).
• iPlotz: a web app for creating wireframes (Thanks Jay Colle!)
• Dave Shea at Mezzoblue has posted a nice article on sprite optimization.
• Tired of drawing with your hands? Have a go at drawing with your voice.
• Finally, “You’re all a bunch of users!” and other computer wallpaper ideas and t-shirts over at HappyWebbies designed by our upcoming guests.

The first in a three-part series on standard screen patterns has been posted. This is a part of the upcoming Design Web Interfaces book.

We’re All Gonna Die is 100 meter-wide image of 178 people photographed from a bridge in Berlin over the course of 20 days (yes, it takes a LONG time to load). I’m not quite sure what’s up with the morbid title, but the people in the image are really interesting.

This morning while browsing an article on content visualization techniques, I came across this animated GIF and was immediately transported back to my days at LearnSomething.com. I think it may have been Jay who first sent this my way back in 2000. At any rate, it’s a fair description of my mood at the moment.

I realize the hyper-pragmatic might snub the nose at “visual fluff” appearing within a sitemap page. Perhaps the informational scrooge within is just plain irritated with any character perceived as waste… demanding to see only the organizational facts and not a byte more. For the rest of us, I give you my new all-time-favorite site map from Erskine Design.