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Favorite: The Importance of User Experience, by soldierant Update!: Experience Dynamics has made this diagram available as a poster-size print, perfect for hanging in your office, cube or team-area. Visit their site for ordering information: Order a Poster ---------------------- This was a fun diagram to work on. Frank Spillers, of Experience Dynamics saw my earlier Flickr diagrams and wanted to commission something similar with some general usability and user experience concepts. The idea was to emphasize the readability and approachability of the subject matter (keep it fun!) and not overload the map with too many concepts. Hence, this piece: "The Importance of User Experience." (Used here with permission.) The best part of this diagram, for me, was collaborating with Frank, who's an enthusiastic and dang bright guy.

Favorite: Custom Futuristic Bike Panning, by Johnny The Wraith

Tilda showing off her piggy tails

Favorite: Some Jawas just can't handle partying. #wiredstarwars #starwars @wired, by bonniegrrl

Tild & Mama

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Favorite: grasslands, by The 10 cent designer heading there next week. can't wait blogged

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Favorite: Time Is the Fire in which We Burn, by code poet Calmly we walk through this April's day, Metropolitan poetry here and there, In the park sit pauper and rentier, The screaming children, the motor-car Fugitive about us, running away, Between the worker and the millionaire Number provides all distances, It is Nineteen Thirty-Seven now, Many great dears are taken away, What will become of you and me (This is the school in which we learn...) Besides the photo and the memory? (...that time is the fire in which we burn.) - from Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day - by Delmore Schwartz

Favorite: Parkette Drive In, by deatonstreet Lexington, KY.

Favorite: Chucks Red, by nate1138 Prop master "Art Dog" shoes.

Favorite: Parkette Drive In, by loungelistener Amazing! This is one of those signs that, when you come upon it, you can't help but say "Wow!". It's got to be around 40' high, and about 20' wide. A real example of the artistry that used to go into sign making and design. Today, it'd be a plastic box on a stick with some boring stock font. This sign should get historic status, at least in my opinion. The Parkette was opened by Joe Smiley in June 1952. New Circle Rd ("Belt Line Highway" back then) was a dirt road when the Parkette opened, and the restaurant was out in the country. Smiley once said he could tell a customer was coming by the cloud of dust on the road. Different times now, as New Circle is busy as heck, and the restaurant is completely surrounded by sprawl. The Parkette is now owned by Randy & Jeff Kaplan, who are working to restore the place to it's former glory, doing most of the work themselves. Good luck to them!

Favorite: For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, by code poet The "old" Fayette County courthouse in Lexington, Kentucky. Please see on black. [Canon 5D mk II, 24-105mm @ 24mm, ISO 100, f/16, 30 sec].

Favorite: four seasons, by aokcreation PLEASE VIEW ON BLACK!!! I drove by the same tree a couple times over the last year to capture the different seasons. Unfortunately I did pick a tree with not a lot of color in the fall ;-(

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Ambulance waiting @ Uk Hospital Emergency Department

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Favorite: Sunset Beach Eclipse May 20th 2012, by jimnista May 20 2012 Solar Eclipse near Sunset Beach / Huntington Beach, CA - timelapse / composition of "phases" of the eclipse during the approximate 2 hour duration. Near Dog Beach in Huntington Beach CA. Life Guard Stand 24 is in the foreground. How I Shot this: Used a Canon 7D with a lens with a doubler to cut the light further, and a solar filter created from multiple sheets of thin Neutral Density (ND) filters more commonly used on movie lights. Over the course of the eclipse I removed the ND sheets one at a time as the sun got lower in the sky and the clouds came in. For the final shot, I’m down to a single ND filter, from the 8 I started with. The 7D was setup very high on a tall tripod to ensure no one would get in front of it. I used a timer to shoot pictures every minute. The multiple layers of ND allowed me to shoot at f22, ISO 100 and with reasonable shutter speeds. The lens could stop down further, but there was no need, since f22 produced a sharp enough shot. Obviously I didn't end up using every shot from the 7D’s time-lapse – because over the time that we were there I took almost 150 shots. Clouds came in starting around 7pm, obscuring some of the later images a bit as you can see. The final image of the sunset is the image used for the overall background. The final assembly of all of the shots was done in Adobe After Effects, since I took 150 pictures the plan is to have a video of this time-lapse, in addition to this overlay photo. Quite a few questions on Facebook about the location and position of the Sun. The beach here faces Southwest, which can easily become confusing. We think the Pacific Coast is exactly west facing, but it's not, in some places it faces South / SouthWest.

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