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 [...]
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.
Where are we watching video content? TV is still the juggernaut. Data is from a Nielsen report for the last half of 2011. And here’s a different source, but platform matters when it comes to watching video too. People love a big screen, but they also love the iPad screen.
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!
There’s rhetorical uses of information visualization, and then there’s this. Just look at the scale on the left and then look at how well and poorly the values line up on the line chart. Especially over there at the end (9.1, 9.0, 8.6). Can’t. Make. The. Line. Go. Down. What a gem.
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 [...]
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 [...]
This is teh cool. Average color of the sky in NYC, updated every 5 minutes (with #hex values!).
The golden ratio is all over the Apple iCloud logo. Nice analysis Alan van Roemburg (via Sean Gerrity’s UX Kitchen). One day I’m sure I’ll see the perfect “that cloud looks like a cloud, no the iCloud cloud!” Whoa, imagine the semiotics to untangle in that situation.
I think we need more time travel-based ‘photo bombs’. But I sure do love a nice political toldja so.
We’ll be seeing about 1,000 *not facebooks* launch in 2011 and 2012. I ran across this particularly elegant one via Stowe Boyd’s blog (though small world, path, and others certainly apply).
