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Flash Forward

These guys showed off their API at flash forward day 2:

http://labs.ideo.com/

iPhone GUI PSD

http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/?p=447

Endless designy fun.

Emotion and Flow

We create software and websites to display and represent information to people. That information could be anything; a company’s product list, pictures of your vacation, or an instant message from a friend. At this moment, there’s more information available to you than at any other time in history.

All this information has a lot of positive effects, but it also creates challenges. “What information consumes is rather obvious; it consumes the attention of its recipients … a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention” (Simon 1971). When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.

Read more about emotion and flow.

Flash Forward

Friend of mine will be blogging from Flash Foward. If curious about the conference please check out his blog.

Beauty

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/08/17/10-futuristic-user-interfaces/

5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers

There's a great article on Smashing Magazine that can really inspire you when it comes to designing a multi-touch interface.

Often creative and truly remarkable design solutions remain unknown because we, designers, simply overlook them. Being busy with our own projects, we sometimes try to grasp the intuition behind (probably) complex and cluttered code of other designers to understand how they manage to implement particular design ideas. In fact, by just observing the code of other developers we can learn a lot from them; we can find interesting ideas and improve the quality of our work.

The article goes on to talk about five really clever interfaces, maybe they can inspire you.