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CU-2’s pirate ship
Once upon a time manufacturers actually manufactured stuff. This thing is amasing, it has hundreds of little parts (down to carrots and dueling pistols and a plank to walk) a crane that moves, canons and jolly rog...
Loving my new Mitas E10 tyres -- -)
Kevin at http://www.sbwmotorrad-bmw.com recently fitted some Mitas E10’s to the GSA. I think I may have been his first customer to go with these hoops so he sent me an email a couple of days ago asking how I was d...
Gen-Y goes shopping
Lovely infographic from getsat (Get Satisfaction) re Gen-Y purchasing behaviour:
Modern Marketing - Blog by Collaborate PR & Marketing -- Shiny Shiny Syndrome
James has a great new post on the management of innovation in business and the obsession with the new. He calls it Shiny Shiny Syndrome
Designjam
Thinking some Hemel Visual and UX folk might enjoy designjamlondon.eventbrite.com tickets go on sale at 13:00 today (in 6 minutes)
Recommended by Which but not so Cooperative?
Our car insurance is coming up for renewal and we’ve just received a letter from the Cooperative (co-operativeinsurance.co.uk) stating they won’t consider renewing our insurance because we had a claim (wife slo-mo...
Free tools for social Media
Free Tools for Social Media (research and measurement)</embed>View more presentations from Beth Granter.
Homes from up above
Seeing this makes me think that, firstly there may be a few too many people on the planet and secondly that there is a lot of roads going nowhere.
Is Google’s design process broken?
Really interesting article on the Google un-design process by the guy who writes on design for Fast Company:
In Defense Of A/B Testing
“Recently, A/B testing has come under (unjust) criticism from different circles on the Internet. Even though this criticism contains some relevant points, the basic argument against A/B testing is flawed. It seems...
How we made an extra £14 million a year for a travel company
Great article on some simple steps to optimising a site for best possible conversion, including user testing, email subject lines, MVT and for clarity.http://www.conversion-rate-experts.com/sunshine-case-study/
nice widgets by Wolfram Alpha
http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/search/?query=webMight be useful in web analytics:http://developer.wolframalpha.com/widgets/gallery/view.jsp?id=a34e1ddbb4d329167f50992ba59fe45aOr something for fu...
increasing conversion by "un-design"
Does the prettiness of your website effect customers perception of your prices. In short yes.This thinking goes against every tissue of my fibre, but seeing it in reality, its interesting that sites which are less...
iTravel
Apple’s attempts to take over the world and integrate into every part of our life takes another step closer. These rather boring patents show designs for Apple’s ideas for the future of travel Iphone style.
Cool Workspaces
This is a blog post containing some of the author’s favourite workspaces, and there are quite a few there that look kind of awesome (using a slide to move between floors? I’m game).
A list of everything cool
A list of some of the coolest objects on the face of the planet. http://trendthing.posterous.com things from glasses to mood mugs and cars to plasters.
360 Escher
When I read Tim’s post on the Budapest panoramic I searched for the image to add a lovely png to his post. Unfortunately the image site asks you to download Silverlight and I have a personal policy on Air and Silv...
Comparing old vs. new website designs
Setup guide from Google Website Optimizer on the subject of testing old versus new.I dont think this fits with current model at dsgi but provides useful articles in interpreting test results going forward.<div&...
71-Gigapixel Photo
A group of young Hungarians, sponsored by industry big-shots Epson, Microsoft and Sony, have created the world’s highest-resolution 360° panoramic photograph to date.
A little visual inspiration
Stumbled across this design studio on my web travels, they do some very attractive, clean work. Their icons are particularly impressive.
How to see that pesky CSS file.
One issue that we have found is waiting for CSS files to cache through. Clearcache wont clear this but here is a way around it for Firefox only but you will be able to see the page upadated.
idea for the category pages
I had an idea of how we could perhaps make the category pages a bit more fun and interesting. Instead of a strapline along the usual lines of 'come to Currys to buy a TV' we could put some funny/poignant quotes r...