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Things We Like: The Friday Five for February 25, 2011

February 25, 2011 by John Suder

A Website Named Desire An illustrated look at what it takes to get a website off the ground.

“Designing, building and launching websites is real hard work — but our profession is seriously misunderstood. To help explain the process, we drew you a picture. A really big picture”
A truly impressive (and immersive) piece of work. ”A Website Named Desire” is part of Descry, an Interactive Infographics Lab brought to you by Mix Online. Take a few minutes and browse the large illustration (click “Vew Deepzoom”).

A Website Named Desire

A Website Named Desire

Liverpool FC Becomes the First Football Club to Launch a Fully Functional Mobile Store.

Liverpool FC has become the first football club in the world to launch a fully functional mobile e-commerce store, allowing smartphone owners to view the clubs online store, browse the full range of merchandise and pay for them securely. Developed on the MUSE eCommerce platform by Snow Valley of London. (via The Next Web UK)

 

 

 

 

Paper Prototyping with the UXPin Prototype Kit Another one of those ‘headslap’ ideas (why didn’t WE think of this?). Why spend countless hours working on a nice Photoshop layout when 90 percent of it will most likely get changed in the client meeting? UXPin solves the problem by providing your common UI items and a paper ‘browser’ to mock up website structures quickly and easily. No pixels required! A mobile version is soon to be released.

UXPin

The 1969 Toyota EX Designed to show how Japan’s new highways could be used, the EX-I was a 2-seater concept sports car shown at the 1969 Tokyo Motor Show. (Shown: The EX-III)

Top of the Charts – Navigate Modern Musical History A conceptual iPad app that allows user to navigate through history’s most popular music, listen to songs, and view additional data for any item.

Top of the Charts from Matt Olpinski on Vimeo.

Things We Like: The Friday Five for February 18, 2011

February 18, 2011 by John Suder

The Camera Lens Mug We spotted this beauty at a recent client meeting. Makes a great conversation starter. (It even sports a ‘lens cap’ lid.)

Buy the The Camera Lens Mug at the Photojojo Store

eBay Instant Sale: Sell Your Old Gadgets Quickly

If you’re a gadget hound, you know what it’s like when the next new shiny object is released. But what do you do with the old, once-coveted smartphone, now collecting dust on the shelf? If you’re like me, you just sell the old toys on eBay. But it takes time and effort to set up a proper listing. eBay Instant Sale solves the problem. Simply list the item, the condition, and whether or not it includes a charger. eBay then calculates a price for you. Check out, ship the item for free and eBay then deposits the money in yourPayPal account. Sure, you might make a little more money with a traditional auction, that’s basically a time vs. reward calculation you’d have to do beforehand. But with eBay Instant Sale, it doesn’t get any simpler. And now you’ve got some quick cash in your sweaty palms ready for the new iPad 12 Nano. (Bonus feel-good benefit: If your item has no value or does not sell, eBay will recycle it for free.) eBay Instant Sale

The Malcolm Gladwell Book Generator Generate your own new best seller.

Why Your Startup Needs a Visual Dashboard

An intuitive guide on the how and why of creating visual data reporting for your team:

You already know this: What gets measured, gets done. You already know this too: Humans instinctively respond to visual cues So do this: Use visual dashboards for your startup
The post also provides a how-to and links to useful tools for setting up your own dashboards.

Type Sandwiches David Schwen presents a typographic series of food, created using only color and Helvetica.

Mister Bighead Wants a Larger Photo

July 30, 2010 by Bart Mroz

Another Friday afternoon video conference with the SUMO team. Bonus footage: Pete Townshend wonders if his nose is too big.

Another Friday afternoon video conference with the SUMO team from SUMO Heavy on Vimeo.