I just finished the v1 of Katherine’s new site. I started out using the grid system from the fine gentlemen at analog, but in realizing the client’s design vision… I resorted to a complete mishmash approach. Anyway, the site is up, I’m happy with it, and Katherine is happy I’m finished working on it. Now that it’s up, I’m tearing it apart and rebuilding it using jekyll. Depending on how that goes, it might be the first micro-ecommerce site built on jekyll. No promises.
How uniquely does your browser identify you? For me, completely, among the EFF data set. Interesting demonstration of the ability of standard actors to track visitors. Panopticlick
The main insight was that the right chair isn’t right for everyone (via A Chair Designed for Moving and Grooving | Design & Innovation | Fast Company
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An amazing rendering of the US Interstate Highway system in the style of the London Tube map.
Apparently boing boing has undergone another redesign. A few quick thoughts:
The content boxes alternate red and black, which is nice for consistency, but look at the bottom right corner of each thumbnail. Four categories, two colors. Not terrible, but not intuitive.
Individual posts are attractively presented. Note the emphasis on spreading content via twitter, facebook and email. Comments are 4th class citizens?
The best part of the redesign is the presentation of old posts: 
There is a lot of content presented in a compact space. The style distinguishes the content as “older” but leaves enough to entice the reader.
I haven’t seen an article on the redesign yet, but it will be interesting to see what prompted the radical shift, only a year and a half after the last redesign.
Edit: Apparently I am just out of the loop: redesign post
This is our flatware. It looks gorgeous, and it’s fun to use. Object Lesson: Alice Rawsthorn - New York Times
So pretty. Ducati.com
The Sideboard / The Trunk from Decarus. To my taste, you can’t have enough desk space.
There is special genius in taking banal objects and interactions and making them novel and exciting. Plus, I want to be an electronic wizard.
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