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I came across this pretty nifty light-weight prototyping tool Pencil on the weekend. If you follow my del.icio.us bookmarks (as seen on homepage), you would’ve caught it earlier. I have been busy with finishing up the end little bits of the OS project and catching up with school readings so I haven’t had the chance [...]

My friend was over earlier this morning to pick up some stuff and we started talking about the poor UI in your typical financial and business applications (even the very thoroughly researched Bloomberg terminal). There so much innovations yet to be done in these applications, and it’s much easier to get people to pay up [...]

And don’t cheat with one of those font analysers on the web!

I’m sooo excited. I just found this font that I’ve been looking for for a while. Thanks Way Back Machine.

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These are the slides from Joe Lamantia’s closing talk at the Italian IA Summit. This presentation explores some ideas that are not in the traditional user experience business models. I only got a quick skim through the presentation slides but it looked pretty interesting. Broad cultural, technological, and economic shifts are rapidly erasing the distinctions [...]

The School of Computer Science is running a logo design contest with the top prize of $600 and runner-up prizes of $200. You can see the CS logo contest website for more details about this. I like how they also have stated there is a possibility that no logos would be selected if there are [...]

… and all the sudden my designer genes kicked in. I was all the sudden very curious about how to properly pronounce “Helvetica Neue”. This is one of those must know fonts if you have ever done any design. With most of my design work being done over email/IM in the past, I’ve never had [...]