February 26, 2010 at 2:18 pm
If you haven’t seen the signup form on Jeremy Keith’s Huffduffer, go there now. I’ll wait. Pretty, isn’t it? Not only does it look good, but evidence suggests that it is more effective than traditional box-filled forms. Maybe it’s time to start thinking about other ways to present form fields. Not just text fields, but [...]
February 11, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Petitinvention has some designs for infographic coins (found via beginbeing). I would be very happy if this were the currency of the future:
January 26, 2010 at 10:17 am
Robin over at Snarkmarket has put together a nice post advocating the use of designed content and runs through the mental exercise of imagining if an online magazine like Gawker implemented this approach. Needless to say, we like this idea.
December 22, 2009 at 11:24 am
We’re always on the lookout for new ways to display information. Paul at BibliOdyssey has put together great examples of some old ways gathered from the David Rumsey Map Collection. Fantastic.
November 24, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Check out these posters that Simon Page made for the International Year of Astronomy. They’re retro and geometric, and so—almost by definition— I think they’re awesome. They’re also for sale. Creative Review had their favorites: And thumbnails of all 10:
November 3, 2009 at 3:11 pm
When we build websites, we often think of creating a “call to action” for the user and enticing them to follow certain links on a page. One person has done a little empirical research to figure out how the language of those calls to action impact the click-through rates of the associated links. In short, [...]
October 6, 2009 at 10:35 am
Research at Boston University 2009 is the annual magazine highlighting research done at Boston University over the previous year. New Media integrated the 2009 edition into the existing BU Research website.
October 6, 2009 at 10:29 am
University Honors College is an honors program for the highest-achieving and most creative students that draws on the full range of resources at Boston University.
September 22, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Have you ever had that friend who would just notice when your lawn needed mowing or your house needed painting and would just come over and take care of it for you? Me neither. But Google is that friend! For the internet! Introducing Google Chrome Frame: Run the Google Chrome User Agent as a plugin [...]
September 9, 2009 at 2:38 pm
Hi folks – new guy here. There’s an undercurrent of strangeness involving graphic designers who choose to show off their poster designs in a very specific manner. Thankfully, we have Jason Santa Maria (the brains behind the previously-mentioned Typepedia) to create a web-centric response. He posted a single photo to Flickr of a person finger-holding [...]
