Tom Smith
Tom Smith is now helping improve collaboration at the University of York.
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Tag Archives: Design
Stop making it look like a System
The content doesn’t really fit Classic. Nice usability article about a very common problem. My take is that, in design terms, when using grids it will almost always go wrong and that a “solution” of sorts is to use real … Continue reading
It’s Really Easy To Make Things Look Cool
… and so it becomes uninteresting … I wish…
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Tom’s Law: 445, where you are doesn’t matter
It just struck me… looking at site navigation and breadcrumbs how obsessed designers are in telling you where you are, when in actual fact, you can tell where you are from where you’ve been and where you can go next, … Continue reading
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Seeing again…
I love this. Some designers chose to take a fresh look at the “almost invisible” barcode and have some fun with it. What are you looking at/using every day without seeing it? Who knows there might even be a Long … Continue reading
Tagged Design, Fun
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We Are The Monkeys (hey, hey!)
The first meeting of We Are The Monkeys is for anyone living in York and involved in the web industry in some shape or form (web design, web development, marketing, usability, ecommerce etc.) We Are The Monkeys (hey, hey!) .. … Continue reading
Tagged Design, Development, Ecommerce, Fun
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GPS on MacOS X (or Why Blogs are Rubbish)
I’ve started a blog about GPS on MacOS X, not to teach or share expertise or show off or anything. This blog is to share my confusion and ignorance. There are a few blogs out there about mapping but I … Continue reading
Liquid vs Fixed Layouts
When choosing blog tools to use, one of the main factors I end up taking into account is what they look like. It’s silly really because what a blog looks like is up to me really. Except that it’s not. … Continue reading
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Interface, at times, is everything..
This is one slick video. Prepare to be amazed with the Crazy Multi-Input Touch Screen, which shows how a novel interface hooked to very smart software and of course big computer behind the scenes can dramatically alter how you think … Continue reading
Free Wheelchair Mission – The Wheelchair Design
44 dollars for the Free Wheelchair Design includes shipping costs. I love those designs where somebody has taken two everyday things and makes a new third thing, like Picasso’s bull’s head made from a bike’s handlebars and saddle and like … Continue reading
The interaction designer’s nail gun (2nd edition)
Seeing Visio being used well, here…, sometimes make me wish I had a PC. Omnigraffle is great but lacks a few features (that maybe version 3 has… should I upgrade? … probably). Omnigraffle, with scripting, is inches away from being … Continue reading
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