August kinda got away from me, but I’ll stack September right after it just so I can get back on track. On-topic: tools for mobile testing, responsive design, wireframing and prototyping, and more; Seattle design events; really egregious examples of skeuomorphism (my favorite link of the month, personally). Semi-off-topic: Simon Pegg’s Bacon number; tips on writing from Steinbeck and Zadie Smith; logos for Seattle neighborhoods.
- This graphic of Braun products from the 1950s compared with modern Apple products is kind of entertaining.
- UXPin is a design toolkit for creating wireframes and prototypes. It also has some self-sticky paper prototype templates that you can then easily scan and turn into digital prototypes (magically, I assume). Anyone out there using this?
- Plunk lets you upload an image of your mobile interface, send a unique URL to users, and then find out where on the screen they clicked.
- Cool b&w logos for Seattle neighborhoods!
- Jared shared This Is Responsive, a Brad Frost project to collect “patterns and modules for responsive designs” (and which seems to make my Chrome use 90+% CPU).
- HP introduced its new line of desktops. Why do they look exactly like the iMac?
- Sergei wanted to go to Decibel, a several-days-long festival of “electronic music, performance, visual art, and new media.” I don’t know if he actually made it.
- Jared pointed Sergei and Char to couple of things I don’t understand: Yeoman, a github repository for a thing that helps build web apps; Select 2, a github repository for a jQuery select box thingy.
- Scroll down for a picture of us with our ice cream for our ACE award from last month. Mira and Diego are mentioned but not pictured.
- Following up on the skeumorphism theme from a couple months ago, Skeu It made me laugh (and wince). Too many hilarious things to quote; just go check it out.
- Jason went to the vinyl art exhibit mentioned last month, where he learned about Ujino and was reminded of how awesome Christian Marclay is.
- Cardboard bike! Can be manufactured for $9-12! We all want one. As the article points out, this has some interesting implications for transportation in developing countries.
- Google added Bacon number calculation to the search algorithm. Here’s Simon Pegg’s Bacon number.
- This webinar on emotional design is part of a free webinar series for AIGA members.
- Cool video of actual physical 3D animation.
- How did I miss these the first time around? Jason shared six tips on writing from John Steinbeck, as well as ten from Zadie Smith, which also includes links to more posts in the series.
- Jason pointed Jared to a couple of his favorite hikes, including Summit Lake, “pretty tame”, and Tolmie Peak Lookout, “a bit more strenuous, but a HUGE payoff when you get up to the fire lookout.”
- Diego found Spundge, a web app for aggregating and curating content, built for journalist but with lots of potential uses. I wonder if anyone is using it for educational purposes yet.
- The lineup for An Event Apart Seattle has been announced. Don’t grab all the tickets before I get mine though.
- And InfoCamp is coming up this weekend! Are you going? Want to write us a post about it?
- I found this long, in-depth post on the design principles behind the Firefox OS (which I did not know was a thing).
- Jason loves Moby-Dick, which I haven’t read, so when I found this chapter-a-day podcast, I had to share it. I’m listening to it, though not a chapter a day.
- None of us made it to the Seattle Design Festival, but when I saw this chair made out of car radiators that was featured there I thought maybe that was OK.
- This Mac or PC and iOS app, Reflection, lets you show what’s on your iPhone/iPad screen on any linked Mac or PC. This would be useful for our sprint demos!
- Splat! Make a mess!
- Totally off-topic, this pic of some swimming ladies being photobombed by a stingray made me giggle uncontrollably. Stingray just wants to be friends!!
