Articles about 'Data'
Selected articles by category
You now delving deep into the vault of Miles Dowett's blog - specifically those articles filed by category. All the articles you see before you concern themselves with 'Data'.
Data design: The genius of Jon Snow
March 23, 2009 at 4:28 pm
I recently finished reading Steven Johnson's The Ghost Map, which is an incredible book on the Cholera outbreak in London's Soho district in 1854. One wouldn't naturally associate violent intestinal disease in Victorian London as a great source of design inspiration, but not only did this dark chapter in London's history produce a fantastic data visualisation model, it also changed the model of how all urban environments exist to this day.
- Filed under:
- Code,
- Data,
- Design,
- Inspiration
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Context is king on mobile devices
February 12, 2009 at 8:01 pm
I was interested to see an article on the Webcredible website this month written by the editorial staff at Mobiles.co.uk about improving mobile internet usability. Being quite interested in this space I was naturally keen to hear what they had to say on a topic that's been widely talked about ever since the Wireless Application Protocol 1.0 was introduced over 10 years ago - a vastly different proposition than today's 3G technology.
- Filed under:
- Data,
- Design,
- Mobile,
- User experience
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Online persuasion techniques
September 23, 2008 at 10:51 am
In an increasingly complex online world of conversion and retention there are a few techniques that are pretty easy to implement - but often overlooked - when persuading people to buy online. It simply comes down to tapping into a little psychology and basic human nature.
- Filed under:
- Data,
- User experience
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Flickr badge code issues
September 15, 2008 at 7:48 pm
I've been using a Flickr badge on my site for quite some time now to display four thumbnails from my Flickr photostream. However, all of a sudden, without any warning it started to misbehave and I found the badge displaying five thumbnails with the first being an unclickable blank white image.
Aurora interface concept (Part two)
August 07, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Further to my previous post about the Aurora interface concept earlier in the week, Adaptive Path has just released part two. The second part explores the data browsing experience using a mobile device rather than the traditional desktop.
- Filed under:
- Data,
- Design,
- User experience
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Adaptive Path’s Aurora interface concept unveiled
August 05, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Adaptive Path, the user experience and product development consultancy firm, have just released the first part of a new web interface concept called Aurora, in collaboration with Mozilla. Aurora is their take on how the web browser could evolve and work in the future, by harnessing masses of data within a very fluid and highly interactive user interface.
- Filed under:
- Data,
- Design,
- User experience
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Former Google staff launch Cuil
July 29, 2008 at 8:39 pm
Cuil (pronounced 'Cool') is the latest search engine designed to challenge Google. The internet is littered with search engines that purport to offer something superior to Google, but none of them never have really gained any momentum and ultimately have sunk without trace. So is Cuil any different?
