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The perfectionist in me thinks this visualization could be improved just a smidge — the lifelines are a little difficult to read, and it would’ve been sweet to incorporate each character’s totem — but it’s still a very cool depiction of the plot architecture of Inception.
I find myself still thinking about this movie quite a [...]
So the other night I finally got around to entering a bunch of old bills into Billmonk and noticed for the first time that their UI for entering bills is ridiculous. After filling out all your info for a bill/expense/indiscretion-I-will-never-disclose-on-this-blog you’re prompted with the following buttons:
Couple questions. Who in their right mind thought it [...]
One of my current projects is reading the complete works of Edward Tufte, one of the giants in information design. For better or worse I’ve decided to read the books in order of original publication date, and although The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition was originally published in 1983 most of [...]
I’m still trying to decide whether CoolIris is more than just a slick gimmick but I was impressed to encounter this screen during setup:
What’s cool about this is that they’ve anticipated the user’s context within the browser — here, they know exactly what warning Firefox will display and where it’s located — so they’re able [...]
