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• Malcolm Gladwell on Outliers

  “If it comes easy, you’re not doing it right.” Great advice from Malcom Gladwell in this presentation about the process of creative synthesis that results in genius and creativity.  He touches on a point that became a bit of revelation for me when... Posted Nov 26 2008, 12:08 PM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Life

• One Data Widget Dashboard to Rule Them All

  Sprint (yup, Sprint) has built this addictive mosaic of random data visualization widgets, providing must have up-to-the-minute stats like People Stuck in Elevators and the current number of Sticky Notes Being Produced.  It’s a fun site that takes... Posted Nov 25 2008, 08:13 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design

• Election Data Visualizations

  A Presidential election is, of course, an epicenter for data visualization.  It is, after all, the data that gets the last word and it’s the data that, ultimately, we’ve all been watching and discussing for the last 6, 12 or 18 months.  For... Posted Oct 28 2008, 04:37 PM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Life

• Zune 3.0 or The Sound Wave Visualization that Stole My Heart

  Between my wife and I, we own something like four iPods and two iPhones (including a first generation iPod which, amazingly, looks like an antique now) and so I have a long-term relationship with iTunes. I don’t dislike iTunes but it’s old. In fact, it... Posted Oct 22 2008, 01:17 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design

• Oliver Jeffers Takes Nerd+Art to a New Level

  The Incredible Book Eating Boy is my new favorite bed time story (for reading to my two and four year old sons).  I looked up the illustrator (Oliver Jeffers) the other day to discover that he, like me, could appreciate a little nerd with his art... Posted Oct 07 2008, 01:39 PM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Life

• Blend Modes? You’re Soaking In It

  It turns out that being a freelancer is about twice as much work as you expect.  It’s been fun, but it’s been really busy.  So, Blog, sorry if you feel a little neglected.  If it makes you feel better, I’m about 1200 items away from being... Posted Sep 25 2008, 12:56 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, SilverLight

• Ed Catmull on Managing Creativity

  Ed Catmull is a co-founder of Pixar.  He wrote this great article in the Harvard Business Review this month about how Pixar approaches the intensely collaborative and creative process of producing a film.  There are a lot of good parallels to... Posted Sep 17 2008, 03:27 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design

• Project Rosetta / Rick Barraza is My Hero

  This should not be missed.  Project Rosetta is only a couple articles old, but I’m already finding a lot of inspiration and useful content there.  The first article is supposed to be for Flash to Silverlight converts, but I think the application... Posted Sep 10 2008, 03:27 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, SilverLight, Code

• When Less is More

  This is neat.  They took weather (the proverbial most complicated thing ever) and reduced it to a simple yes or no.  Not everything can be this simple, but this manages to answer a relevant question and stay really useful.  That might be... Posted Sep 09 2008, 11:19 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design

• Particle System Envy

  I’ve got it.  Check out a preview of the new visualization that is rumored to be shipping with tomorrow’s new version of iTunes. Magnetosphere revisited (audio by Tosca) from flight404 on Vimeo. Read More... Posted Sep 08 2008, 05:14 PM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, SilverLight

• Infographic of the Decade: I Met the Walrus

  USA Today, eat your heart out!  This is an incredibly beautiful animated short that depicts a 1969 interview between John Lennon and a young man who had snuck into his hotel room during John’s “bed-in” for peace phase.  The... Posted Aug 15 2008, 01:36 PM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Life

• The Olympics are Not Just for Jocks

  Let’s face it readers, you and I are not jocks.  I try to run two or three times a week.  You like racquetball.  Other than that, we’re not really sports people.  Not sports people, that is, except when we catch some serious... Posted Aug 13 2008, 02:27 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Life

• No Ideas But In Things

  In my mind, there is an undeniable relationship between UI design and graphic design.  They share a similar communication goal and are both concerned with things like layout, color, balance and type.  Whenever I mention that, though, Nate is... Posted Aug 11 2008, 12:31 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design

• ThoughtBox: Visual Design

  The weekend is quickly slipping away. I had a lot less time to spend on this than I had hoped (I guess that’s how it always goes). I helped a friend move this morning and it took a little longer than expected and I ended up running some errands... Posted Aug 03 2008, 01:11 AM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Code

• ThoughtBox: Wireframe

  Just finished the wireframe for the app.  I built the design around a principle from the book that really struck a chord with.  David Allen talks about horizontal vs. vertical task management.  The Horizontal tasks are all of your projects... Posted Aug 02 2008, 02:59 PM by nerdplusart.com Filed under: Design, Code