Grid-A-licious
February 1, 2011
Grid-A-licious is a stunningly clean and beautiful WordPress theme. See the demo site here….
Who Would’ve Thought That Ten Million Facebook Friendships Could Be So Beautiful?
January 7, 2011
Paul, an intern on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team, recently took a sample of about ten million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? A stunningly beautiful—and accurate—map of the world.
Paul’s description of the process of creating this map is almost as…
Fooducate iPhone App
November 19, 2010
Fooducate’s iPhone App lets shoppers make better, healthier choices at the supermarket. It empowers you with all the tips and tricks Fooducate’s been writing about on their blog. The nifty app let’s you scan the barcode of a food product and then tells you the good and the bad. And…
Time Flies
November 16, 2010
Time Flies is is an iPhone App that let’s you keep track of how long it has been since you did something. This is BRILLIANT! And I so need this. Brita water filter, do I need to say more?…
DailyLit – Read books by email or RSS
November 14, 2010
My days are hectic. Running my studio/blog/speaker series and putting the mommy hat on the minute I come home means that I barely find a quiet moment to read books. (I sometimes wish for a subway commute that allows for some quality reading.) So, to me, DailyLit, a service that…
A world of tweets
November 13, 2010
A World of Tweets shows you with a heat map visualization where people are tweeting at from the past hour. The more tweets there are from a specific region, the “hotter” or redder it becomes. This continuous collection of Twitter statuses shows in what an incredible tweeting world we live…
I can’t find my phone
November 2, 2010
This little site called I can’t find my phone just made my day! It’s brilliant:
Do you know those moments, when you can’t find your phone but there’s noone around you could ask to call you? Well, that’s what www.icantfindmyphone.com is for. Fantastic! And what an adorable execution…
Meet the new Twitter
November 1, 2010
New design
You will now find @mentions, retweets, searches, and lists just above your timeline – creating a single, streamlined view on the left of the screen. On the right, you can see the features you’re familiar with, including whom you recently followed and who recently followed you, favorites, and Trending…
placehold.it
October 29, 2010
Placehold.it is an ingenious, simple service for anyone working on UI designs that entail ads. A total timesaver….
Design and the Business World
October 28, 2010
Peter Lawrence on Bringing Design to the Business World…
Brew for a Better World
October 21, 2010
Brew for a Better World from Project 7 on Vimeo.
What if that cup of coffee you drink every day could change the world? Project7 is doing exactly that. Simply put, you buy coffee and you do good. Each of their seven coffees is attached to a specific cause and provides…
Neiman Marcus Fantasy Gifts 2010
October 7, 2010
Neiman’s always anticipated Christmas Book has just been released and of course with every Christmas Book comes the infamous list of their incredible “Fantasy Gifts”. Our favorites this year include the new drop-top 2011 Camaro ($75,000) and the simply stunning, ostrich enveloped Leica M9 ($17,500) camera. Link…
KhanAcademy
October 6, 2010
The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) with the mission of providing a world-class education to anyone, anywhere. The Khan Academy is being developed as an open source project, consider it a free classroom for the World. *This*, TED and Kickstarter are perfect examples why the internet had to been…
CreativeEveryone
October 6, 2010
CreativeEveryone wants you to never miss a creative event again. It strives the be the go-to guide to all the interesting creative-oriented events happening in the UK and USA. If you would like to help them edit and curate the events listed on CreativeEveryone, you can become an editor. (The…
BlackBerry Playbook
September 28, 2010
The first serious threat to the iPad’s dominance has just arrived and believe it or not, its not from Microsoft. Touted as the first “professional-grade” tablet, BlackBerry’s Playbook comes packed with a 7” inch, multi-touch display, access to the whole suite of BlackBerry services, dual cameras, and full Flash 10.1…
gridulator
September 27, 2010
Tell Gridulator your web-layout width and the number of columns you want, and it’ll spit back all the possible grids that have nice, round integers. Just the thing for pixel-based designfolk. There are inline previews, courtesy of the canvas element, and when you’re all set Gridulator can crank out full-size…
What is good Design?
September 24, 2010
What is good design is one of these questions I am being asked constantly. The sheer complexity of the answer usually makes me break out in a nervous sweat. And so far, nobody nailed the answer better than Dieter Rams in his Ten Principles for Good Design….
© 2013 dtail™