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this is Alison's collection of inspiring bits and bobs
Submitted by abeattie07 - 2008-09-09 13:13:31
Channels - design
Tags - design 
photos inspiration
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Clients pay big bucks for sexy frontend designs but don’t want to be lost in ugly and unusable backends. Historically, many an administration interface had awful table-based layouts with complicated menus and unreadable data. It is time to reverse the trend: UX goes beyond frontend, and if we can code beautiful frontends, we should build beautiful backends too, all the more as backend designs are reusable. After Wordpress, Basecamp and the likes, here is an inspiring list of 10 sexy, though probably less-known, backend designs.
Submitted by vijay - 2008-09-05 02:32:54
Channels - general design webdev * patterns
Tags - design webdev general patterns *
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Artex Studios Interactive Web Design and Internet Marketing Company.
Submitted by jamesgober - 2008-03-06 05:22:33
Channels - design internet business interactive
Tags - design interactive web internet marketing programming seo development company e-commerce
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"below is the recently (2003) extended runway at funchal airport in madeira. the original 1400m runway was notoriously short and, as a result, sometimes dangerous for landing planes. the runway extension won the iabse’s ‘outstanding structures award’ and rightly so: due to an obvious lack of land, engineers have supported the extension on 180 pillars, each 70m high. on the last photo you can see what seems to be a car park that now lives under the end of the runway."
Submitted by stella - 2008-01-31 12:46:39
Channels - blogcadre
Tags - design architecture airplanes
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I wanted to share a site with you folks that I've been working on with the dev team at Colle+McVoy this last month.
As part of a project for Free Arts Minnesota, we put together a little web toy that allows you to make your own digital Qee and share it with the world.
What's a Qee? They are cute little vinyl toys. They come blank-white, and you get to be the designer and paint them any way you like. The digital version lets you experiment a little more with your design skills and you can fire the little dudes off to your friends.
It's pretty fun. Give it a shot and let me know what you think.
Submitted by jason - 2007-12-19 23:14:54
Channels - blogcadre design wastingtime
Tags - design flash toy qee vinyl
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This may be old news to information architects and the like, but for an outsider, the idea of "mind mapping" as a prototyping tool is exciting in a geeky sort of way. Seems useful for any number of applications and it's good to see options out there beyond spreadsheets and site mapping software.
Submitted by cornellius - 2007-11-09 08:06:27
Channels - design software media new information
Tags - design tech software information
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"WordPress was originally created as a weblog or blog platform. But now WordPress has grown so powerful that you can use it to create any type of website and use it as a Content Management System (CMS). In this article, I’m going to share some of my WordPress tricks with you on how to make a better WordPress theme."
Submitted by stella - 2007-10-15 15:43:56
Channels - hackszine
Tags - blog design hack wordpress theme cms
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Clothes designer Hussein Chalayan has designed dresses that transform into other dresses. There is even one dress that disappears entirely. Watch the video. (NSFW due to naked lady at the end.)
Submitted by stella - 2007-10-07 18:44:05
Channels - blogcadre hackszine
Tags - design video fashion innovative clothing
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"One part geek Olympics, one part community service project and one part race-against-the-clock—Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge will partner deserving Minnesota non-profits with teams of talented web developers for 24 hours of fun collaboration culminating in a fully operational website for each participating non-profit."
Two reasons why this is an awesome idea:
1. A short-timespan codeathon means you can donate your time without worrying about a gratis project blowing way out of scope. Anything that doesn't contribute to the goal needs to be efficiently nipped in the bud.
2. It supports the concept that a defined programming effort and a small team can actually accomplish a huge amount of work in a small amount of time.
Submitted by jason - 2007-10-04 15:06:47
Channels - blogcadre design programming
Tags - design web website programming codeathon challenge
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"I’ve heard of students roughing it, but sleeping in freight containers? That’s right. Only it’s not a case of desperate living or some torturous fraternity hazing — it’s a very cool, very useful idea developed by a Dutch company called TempoHousing."
Submitted by stella - 2007-10-01 19:44:45
Channels - blogcadre
Tags - design architecture housing
