Konigi Graph Paper- June 27, 2008 I spend a lot of time sketching interface ideas on paper. Typically I sketch wireframes and storyboards on graph paper, then redo the final documents in OmniGraffle. But lately, I've been using paper for more than just sketching. Now, after spending time sketching ideas and working out design issues, I start to do higher fidelity drawings on paper, scan them, post them to our system. We discuss and iterate, and the process repeats until we're happy, and I spend less time pushing pixels...http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/konigi_graph_paper Waterfalls Opens in New York- June 27, 2008 Move over Christo, Olafur Eliasson is in town. My son and I caught Eliasson's Waterfall installation under the Brooklyn Bridge yesterday. There's a slideshow at the New York Times. We saw it on the way in to Manhattan while on the Manhattan Bridge Q, and on the way back in to Brooklyn, we saw it at night lit up from behind. Spectacular.http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/waterfalls_opens_new_york Daft Punk El Wire Suits on Instructables- June 26, 2008 Ahhhh yeah. Instructables user englighted shared her process for making the light suits worn by Daft Punk in the Alive 2007 shows. From her intro... As a lighted costume designer, I get a lot of questions from people who want to know how to make their own EL wire costumes (many of them seeking to mimic the immensely popular Daft Punk red robot suits, which I illuminated for their Alive 2007 tour). I don't have time to help everyone individually, so I thought I'd consolidate my advice into one..http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/daft_punk_el_wire_suits_instructables Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition Results- June 26, 2008 The results of the Brooklyn Museum's crowdsourced photo exhibition are up.http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/click_crowd_curated_exhibition_results Giving In and Giving Up on Tag Relationships- June 25, 2008 Well, it finally happened. I got too lazy to comb through the relationships in the taxonomy I've been using on this site over the years and I've decided to stop creating parentchild relationships. So now I only have the tag clouds. I still separate the facets for subject and people. I believe taxonomy and thesauri to be useful when describing content for the purposes of browsing, especially to first time users of a system. It makes sense when classifying content in business information systems,.http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/giving_and_giving_tag_relationships Simplifying Drupal: A Mini Admin Toolbar- June 25, 2008 I screencasted the admin toolbar I use on this site. I've been stripping out as much of the theme areas as possible to make the content more prominent. If I'm logged in, however, I see a mini toolbar at the top of the screen that gives me access to the admin areas I need access to. To subscribe to the urlgreyhot podcast, head to jibbajabba.blip.tv.http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/simplifying_drupal_mini_admin_toolbar Iris Image Editor For Mac OS X- June 24, 2008 Iris is an affordable ($79) image editing application for the Mac.http://urlgreyhot.com/personal/weblog/iris_image_editor_mac_os_x |