Max Kiesler - Responsive Designer


Myspace Variety and Attitudes Visualization

Posted on 25th July, by max in Design. Comments Off

“”My final year project in information design. Two big (200cm x 90cm, 80 x 36 inch) posters show the variety and attitudes of members from an internet community like MySpace.”On the first poster you can see the functions used, as well as additional information such as age, educational background, family status, gender and how often they are logged in. So, all demographic data which are available from every member’s profile.”The second poster gives you an overview of the geographic position, based on a map. You can see where the members are distributed. The aim was to give the management the opportunity to know much more about the members than would have been possible with a simple scan of their database only”.”Visit the Myspace Variety and Attitudes Website


Surfing Linda Mar – Day One

Posted on 25th July, by max in Surf Sessions. Comments Off

The sand was grey, the sky was foggy, and the water was cold, however, after not having surfed for a month Linda Mar was paradise. The waves were consistent, powerful and the break is only 15 minutes from our loft in downtown San Francisco.


Looks del.icio.us

Posted on 24th July, by max in Design. Comments Off

“”The looks del.icio.us project is my first attempt to combine graphics design with programming. The concept is to see how users develop and sustain their tagging methodologies on del.icio.us.”Visit the looks del.icio.us Website


Bumpbox – Lightbox For Multiple Filetypes

Posted on 24th July, by max in Code. Comments Off

“Bumpbox is another lightbox clone with a few advantages over other lightboxes – it supports not only all common media types but also PDF’s.”Yet, the integration and implementation on your own site is pretty simple. Just add the scripts to your head section, add classes to your links that should use bumpbox, define a rel tag with the size that the bumpbox should have and you’re ready to roll.”Bumpbox automatically detects what kind of filetype you wish to show in the box, so you do not need to specify the type, easing the process of integration”.”Visit the Bumpbox Website


Surfing at Linda Mar Tomorrow

Posted on 24th July, by max in Surf Sessions. Comments Off

Tomorrow will mark the first day of our new surfing life at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica. Having never surfed in Nor Cal I’m looking forward to seeing what it’s like to surf in the cold water.


What Britain Eats – Three Decades of Grocery Shopping

Posted on 23rd July, by max in Design. Comments Off

“”The landscape of British eating has changed dramatically in the last three decades. In the above interactive visualisation, we‚Äö√Ñ√¥ve documented the changing face of our grocery shopping, whether it be the rise and rise of the banana, the decline of liver, the growth of the ready meal, or the determined plod of the pork sausage. The data comes from DEFRA, which keeps an extraordinarily rich, but mostly dormant, archive on its website. We‚Äö√Ñ√¥ve brought it to life with what we think is an innovative tool, produced with the help our designer, Marcin Ignac. The icons on the left represent 5 main food ‚Äö√Ñ√≤types‚Äö√Ñ√¥ – fats, fish, fruit, meat and vegetables. Click on any section of the donut to see how consumption of that food group has changed, or scroll along the time line for any one food to see its …


Visualization Toolkit

Posted on 23rd July, by max in Code. Comments Off

The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. Professional support and products for VTK are provided by Kitware. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation. Additionally, VTK has an extensive information visualization framework, has a suite of 3D interaction widgets, supports parallel processing, and integrates with various databases on GUI toolkits such as Qt and Tk. VTK is cross-platform and runs on Linux, Windows, Mac and Unix platforms.”Visit the Visualization Toolkit Website


VisIt – Visualization and Graphical Analysis Tool

Posted on 22nd July, by max in Design. Comments Off

“”VisIt is a free interactive parallel visualization and graphical analysis tool for viewing scientific data on Unix and PC platforms. Users can quickly generate visualizations from their data, animate them through time, manipulate them, and save the resulting images for presentations. VisIt contains a rich set of visualization features so that you can view your data in a variety of ways. It can be used to visualize scalar and vector fields defined on two- and three-dimensional (2D and 3D) structured and unstructured meshes. VisIt was designed to handle very large data set sizes in the terascale range and yet can also handle small data sets in the kilobyte range”.rn


OECD Factbook eXplorer – World Data Visualization

Posted on 22nd July, by max in Design. Comments Off

“”The OECD countries are displayed in 4 views for TL2 in start-up mode ‚Äö√Ñ√¨ each view represents a continent. A set of indicators is pre-loaded for this territorial level. The scatter plot shows 4 indicators. The indicatos¬¨¬• names are shown along the two axes in the selection boxes. The selection box for the dot size is found above the scatter plot together with a slider controlling the size of the dot. Storytelling is available in the right view. Three stories are pre-loaded: TL2, TL3″rn


Load Data while Scrolling Page Down with jQuery and PHP

Posted on 22nd July, by max in Code. Comments Off

This tutorial about my favorite place Dzone like data loading while page scrolling down with jQuery and PHP. We have lots of data but can not display all. This script helps you to display little data and make faster your website.”Visit the Website