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Over the spring and summer, we ran a campaign called ‘Design by Community’, in which members of the Nokia blog’s community voted for their ideal mobile phone, having been given some ideas of the constraints that actually apply to manufacturers. It was a massive success, with hundreds of thousands of votes cast and intense discussions And when I say ‘design’, of course, I mean theft. Regulars will have noted that things don’t stand still for too long here on twopointouch. Apart from the post count. Fiddling with new themes and plugins is almost compulsive behaviour. While I’ve only had around four long-term favourite themes over the last five years, there’s every chance Continue reading Making it Yours — An Inept Guide to Website Design I was asked to review the latest release of Xara’s graphic design software, Xara Designer Pro 6. Since I’ve been a fan of the application for a while, I was happy to oblige. I ought to disclose that Xara sent me a free key. You might not realise it, but Xara is one of the real MoMA New York’s department of architecture and design has acquired the @ symbol for its collection. This is a fine piece of puffery, of course. The symbol cannot be owned by an individual gallery since it already belongs to all of us. We love our infograms, don’t we, the digerati, the twittering classes? These information graphics, or data visualisations. I don’t think there’s another field of the social sciences quite so keen on complicated graphs that half-explain themselves and suggest transparency and half are a subtle appeal to the imagination. Because these images are machine-generated, there’s a temptation to believe We’re running a Portfolio Clinic as part of the i-design conference on September 17. The idea is for budding interactive designers to come along with a laptop and show their wares the the cream of London’s creative agencies. They’ll tell you where you’re going right and where you’re going wrong — or how you might make |             | |||
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