Thinky.org is the personal blog of Zach Pousman. I am a designer, researcher, and strategist at the intersection of people and technology. Here you'll find a collection of stuff from my travels around the internet. I like info graphics & visualizations, well-designed goods and services, effective advertising, and novel interaction techniques.
David Garcia, a dev lead at Facebook, got a chance to hack the NASDAQ button, using a cellphone and a few things from RadioShack (including what must have been gator clips since I don’t think he took apart the guts, just flipped a switch when the main circuit was completed… I’m totally assuming on that [...]
Nice new blog from an NYT graphics department reporter and data-journalist, Kevin Quealy. Lots of cool ‘behind the scenes’ work on how data gets into a graphic that gets onto nytimes.com or the paper version.
I can’t wait to turn my kitchen table into a skatepark. Literal bowls. Whoa.
It’s a pretty subtle economics joke. Hint: Check out the card. I’ve already left my ‘big bad bank’ and moved all of my accounts to a bank that loves me. But still, I really like Simple both in concept and execution.
Sisyphus! Tantulus! Zeno’s Paradox! Play them all… Great stuff from games developer and researcher, Pippin Barr.
This is really nice to-do list app for the iPhone. You can see that there is barely any UI at all — it’s completely gestural. Or nearly so. The app is still in development and ’coming soon’ so the video you see here is faked. But I like it.
Check this out: Rappers. Wrapping. (See more at rapperswrapping.tumblr.com) Next year, I want to recruit Atlanta’s hip hop royalty and get them to help us collect and distribute toys for kids. But for this year, we just had to photoshop ‘em! Happy holidays to all, and to all a good night!
I’m a sucker for this kind of project: I love art and design that uses (and abuses) currency. And I love rhetorical uses of information visualization and infographics. “Occupy George” is a plan to print out (on your own dollar bills) statistics which are at least reflective of the goals of the Occupy Wall Street [...]
Google’s got a new visualization of activity on Google+ and it’s called Ripples. The intent is to visualize how (public) posts are passed inside of google’s network. Really nice to look at and very fast rendering. The only examples I’ve played with so far are confirmatory analysis: the people I already know are ‘big’ and [...]
CHI*A CHI Atlanta September Showcase: Zach Pousman View more presentations from zpousman Here’s a quick design case study that recounts our experience building a dashboard for drivers that collects, aggregates, and invites exploration of driving data (each trip, each press of the accelerator, or twist of the wheel, along with GPS and car-computer data). Two [...]
When I attended the University of Chicago, I used to live directly across the street from the “Robie” House (in Woodward dorm, which is no longer). I’ve toured the house inside a couple times, but I used to walk by the front door all the time, and I think it’s *the* best example of his [...]
Prediction: The Wacom Inkling pen is going to be good for illustrators but it’s going to be GREAT for IAs (Information Architects) and IxDs (Interaction Designers). We don’t care about things like perfect registration, the levels of sensitivity, and the “feel” of the pen. We care about documenting our sketches and experiments and this thing [...]
This is teh cool. Average color of the sky in NYC, updated every 5 minutes (with #hex values!).
