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information design
Image based on Moody intro window.
That's my interpretation of the situation. Next to all the other metadata from which to create playlists, Moody's 4x4 grid offers an intuitive and fast shortcut to selecting songs.
Software
As a follow-up to my previous tweet, retwittered by Saul Colt, i'll point out why none of the software—Harvest, Blinksale, Billings, FreshBooks, can move me away from Excel, even though i find the offers very enticing. Without regard to special differences between the apps and usability, my observations come more from a strategic angle.
Web design
Links to monthly archives allow you to page chronologically through entries of a blog. The links are usually presented as a list that grows ever longer: April 2008, March 2008, February 2008, etc.. I found this a bit boring, and made a graph to present this information as a visual indicator for my posting activity. See the graph in action on the home page of alexome.com.
Link
Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale.
Link Storytelling
Image source: thewhalehunt.orgClick to enlarge
I felt harpooned. Which is more epic, the experience of the whale hunt, or the experience of the interface?
I ran across Timeline by SIMILE today. Being weary of using Excel to create timelines, i was sure there must be something slicker out there. Lifehacker offers a good introduction to Timeline: Geek to Live: Roll your own timeline.
Timeline is “a DHTML AJAX timeline widget for visualizing temporal information. It is like Google Maps for time-based information.”
Link
Image: Screen shot from www.wefeelfine.org
An exploration of human emotion. The work of Jonathan Harris is amazing!
Tag clouds. A thick, foggy cloud full of titillating memes. Those nasty little creatures!
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A business that perseveres does something right. It might have found a niche where it is positioned well to continue operating. Positioning strategies are a chore for business consultants. Positioning locates a company (or product) along a set of dimensions that define the environment for the company. A visual representation in its simplest form usually relies on a two-dimensional diagram. But how should a framework be designed to accomodate a great number of variables and still be easily accessible? How should the variables be visualized to appeal to the eye and allow quick inferences?