by Jason - Color theory, "Four primary colors? Yes, why not? It’s the closest thing to the actual physiology without getting complex." (some pertinent info here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2166494)
Biomimicry & Taxonomy. "Nature's elegant solutions to building challenges include the Scots pine's adaptive growth, the thorny devil's passive water collection, and a leaf's on-site energy production. AskNature can help you solve your design challenges. "
Vintage Japanese WWII Air Raid Defense Posters made in 1938, by the Japanese Red Cross working with government authorities to create a series of posters to teach the public about the new Anti-Aircraft Defense Law, which was enacted in seeming anticipation of air strikes following the outbreak of the Japan-China War (1937-1945).
a free font-building tool that lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. You create ‘FontStructions’ using the ‘FontStructor’ font editor. Once you're done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application. You can keep your creations to yourself or to share. You can also use the FontStruct widget to show your FontStructions on your own website or blog.
The Smileys(Emoticons) are used very often in the sentences of e-mails. They started in USA where the internet had also started of course. In Japan, the Smileys(Emoticons) grew in different manner from U.S.A. Now, there are several kinds of them.
Women who navigate around 3D computer-generated environments for a living - or even for fun - are having their style cramped by ultra-narrow computer displays and graphics software that favours men.
XML.com, by Drew McLellan Feb 09, 2005 "One of the classic drawbacks to building a web application interface is that once a page has been downloaded to the client, the connection to the server is severed."
divide the logic of a Web site from the design. Pot can be used by "common" people just by writing some XML tags in the HTML code. It supports technologies like Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, animated objects, and form data checking.
component-based, modular and open-architecture simulation environment with strong GUI support and an embeddable simulation kernel. Its primary application area is the simulation of communication networks and because of its generic and flexible architectur
How many possible ways are there to lace an average shoe? This simple question, when answered with mathematics, results in some surprisingly big numbers - on an average shoe with six pairs of eyelets, there are 1,961,990,553,600 ways to feed a shoelace
a taggable, reusable, non-linear personal web notebook, a modification by JodyFoo of JeremyRuston's OpenSourceLicensed TiddlyWiki. The modification adds non-hierarchical organisation of Tiddlers through tags.
Mac OS X, which combines a powerful core foundation with a compelling user interface called Aqua. With advanced features and an aesthetically refined use of color, transparency, and animation.
By Joshua David McClurg-Genevese June, 2005 "I tend to define Web design as being one of many disciplines within the larger field of design (a peer to print design, industrial design, interior design, etc.)."
CGI:IRC is a Perl/CGI program that lets you access IRC from a web browser, it is designed to be flexible and has many uses such as an IRC gateway for an IRC network, a chat-room for a website or to access IRC when stuck behind a restrictive firewall.
a collection of ActionScript 3 classes for building a wide variety of interactive visualizations. For example, flare can be used to build basic charts, complex animations, network diagrams, treemaps, and more.
an online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.
MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld talks about his Fab Lab -- a low-cost lab that lets people build things they need using digital and analog tools. It's a simple idea with powerful results:
Why is transforming furniture so alluring? What if you could simply reuse packaging as part of a product rather than sending away for disposal or recycling? Flat pack furniture is exactly what it sounds like: furniture that starts out entirely as sheets
intended as an entrypoint for anyone interested in the development roguelike games. If you are unfamiliar with the roguelike game genre a good definition is (modified definition taken from Balrog and originally from ADOM)
CSS allows you to create attractive navigation that, in reality, is no more than text -- text that can be marked up in such a way as to ensure that it's both accessible and understandable, By Rachel Andrew
A structured library of open-source code for PHP users - A system for code distribution and package maintenance - A standard style for code written in PHP
The first edition of this site was the outgrowth of a previous book project, Practical Relational Database Design, by Wayne Dick and Tom Jewett. The move online featured condensed discussions, an integrated view of database concepts and skills
W3C Markup Validation Service, a free service that checks Web documents in formats like HTML and XHTML for conformance to W3C Recommendations and other standards.
“For people who make websites” A List Apart Magazine explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on techniques and benefits of designing with web standards.
to research and develop software that contributes to compelling and effective social interactions, with a focus on user-centered design processes and rapid prototyping.
The worlds first OpenSource Realtime Editing and Effects System. Jahshaka takes advantage of the power of OpenGL and OpenML to give its users exceptional levels of performance. We currently support Linux, OsX, Irix and Windows, and Solaris is on the way!
one of the pioneers of the cross-disciplinary marriage of origami with mathematics. He is noted for designs of great detail and realism, and includes in his repertoire some of the most complex origami designs ever created.
the octomatics-project is about a new number system which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system. the name comes from the mixture of 'octal' and 'mathematics'.
Ever want to add drag and drop to your website? How about a cool animation or fade? Rico is an free, open javascript library that makes adding these features easy. Check out the demo, it's pretty slick.
"Creation is a process, and strangely, by looking at how everyone’s favorite plushy first-mate sprang into existence, we can learn a lot about any collaborative creative endeavor."
offers replicas in paper of the ships of the great saga Wing Commander, this great game of space combat that it revolutionized the world of the games, with their innovative ideas and attractive history.
Joshua Bloch about designing APIs and why it matters heavily for a the success of a company or a projects. Mostly common sense but useful if you get into a debate about it
allows you to create your own point-and-click adventure games, similar to the early 90's Sierra and Lucasarts adventures. It consists of an easy-to-use editor to create your games, and a run-time engine to play them. (the editor requires .net)
an approach to simulating very large textures using much less texture memory than they'd require in full by downloading only the data that is needed, and using a pixel shader to map from the virtual large texture to the actual physical texture.
a system that helps web site designers in the early stages of design. DENIM supports sketching input, allows design at different refinement levels, and unifies the levels through zooming
freeware icon editor. It is an all-in-one solution for icon creation, extraction and editing. It is designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista and Macintosh icons supporting transparency.
concept created by lone developer (Eskil Steenberg) bent on creating an entire massively multiplayer online world single-handedly, using procedural generation techniques that cause the game to build itself by starting with clever rules and exploring them
Natural Interaction will let computer tools capture and understand ideas that are today captured in pencil on scraps of paper. This capability can introduce design capture into the earliest stages of the design process and radically shorten the design cyc
AJS is a ultra lightweight JavaScript library that is around 1 and half year old. It is hugely inspired by MochiKit, but differs by being small. The current version is only 33 KB (uncompressed), whereas MochiKit is over 100 KB
an academic, non-profit initiative engaged in supporting distributed collaboration towards design challenges facing underserved communities and the environment. ThinkCycle seeks to create a culture of open source design innovation, with ongoing collaborat
the Future of the Theory, And The Generation of a Living World by Christopher Alexander presentation recorded live in San Jose, California, October, at The 1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA).
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