Interactive Periodical Table
I've always had trouble understanding the relationship of the elements in the periodic table. This application gives you an understanding of the how those relationships are made. This learning visualization was developed by Adams Brian of Touchspin Design, and is an aid to his own understanding and that of his students. While this is not a new visualization I always like to highlight learning based design. This is a great example. Thanks to Adams and Touchspin.
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Beyond the List View - New Patterns in User Interface Design
Currently there are many ways to view content on the web. From an interface design perspective these usually fall into one of three categories which include, list views, grid views and content visualizations. This article will look at each one of these patterns and discuss their history along with the pro and cons associated with their use. Then, I'll give some examples of past and present websites using these patterns. Finally, we will look at a few examples of what we might be seeing in the next few years in the way interface design patterns.
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Content Visualizations - The Next Wave of Interaction Design
While the web is changing every day, the one constant is the need to discover information. Search, browse, lists and tags are all great ways to find what you are looking for, however, today content visualizations are giving us a whole new way to discover deep content and relational data like never before. For instance if you search for RadioHead in most of the current search engines you will find lots of links to RadioHead related information. What do you search for if you want to find bands that you might like that have the same sound as RadioHead? This is where content visualizations shine. Many give you the ability to drill down in the content you are interested in and, in a very graphical and visual way.
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Minimalist Website Design Patterns
Do you want your website to be beautiful, SEO friendly and fast loading? Try a true minimalist approach. Total, complete and utter minimalism is a high mark to meet in any medium. Wikipedia describes
minimalism as, "movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual art and music, where the work is stripped down to its most fundamental features." In web design minimalism translates into style, structure, and download time. Many websites that look minimal are actually mired in obtrusive or invalid code and slow download times. I believe true minimalism in web design should consider the design, code and efficiency of each page. In this article I'll discuss a basic standard for minimalist web design, show examples of how a few current sites measure up to these standards, and finally show you a road map to your own web design minimalism.
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Data Visualization Software, Resources, Tutorials and Source Code
As an interaction designer I'm always wondering what's next. Over the last few years we've become familiar with web application design, new constructs like recency and popularity, however, in the back-channel of web design there has been an increasing movement towards data visualizations, both large and small. You can currently see this in everything from blog design to large-scale data visualizations like We Feel Fine and digg labs. Designers and programers are coming together in new ways, which in the end result are producing some of the most functional, and creative web interfaces I've ever seen.
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