"Techy Designer" Archive
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Tuesday, March 23, 2010 by Masha
Absolutely! I agree with our earlier post, Ideas Without Words—or Pie Charts. Information is beautiful in charts like Caffeine and Calories. I would use this or a similar treatment each and every time the client says: “Designer, go forth with this here unlimited budget and a whenever deadline, and just… CREATE!” Alas, the world of [...]
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Tags: graphics, information design, pie chart, Zelazny
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009 by Todd
Calling trends is classic chicken-egg stuff: does a tendency only become a trend when one labels it so? The line is thin and grey enough that by the time most trends are “predicted,” they’re actually simply being reported. But the stakes are low here, so let’s play pundit. Over the years, I’ve gone through a [...]
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Tags: design, purple, trend
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Thursday, August 27, 2009 by Todd
Wikipedia rules the Internet. It’s a more popular information source than CNN and Yahoo News and, with more than three million articles, its pages appear in top-ten search results well over 90% of the time (some reports put the figure as high as 97%). Not bad for a website that’s existed for a mere eight [...]
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Tags: wiki, Wikipedia
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