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Honeywell goes after Nest Learning Thermostat for patent infringement | The Verge
The patents at issue in the case are related to the operation and programming of thermostats, and include some interesting claim coverage. Take a look for yourself:

U.S. Patent No. 7,634,504 - this patent was filed in 2006 (issued 2009) and covers displaying grammatically complete sentences while programming a thermostat.
nest  design  patents  economy 
february 2012 by nijst
One dimensional news (Phil Gyford’s website)
"I simply couldn’t find the time to read a newspaper every day.

Since then I’ve engineered a novel solution which has allowed me to read a good chunk of each day’s paper. I’ve called this “getting up earlier.”"
journalism  design  guardian 
october 2011 by nijst
R.I.P. Push Pop Press | Joe Zeff Design
"Facebook morphs into Flipboard 2.0. The walls come down like the fall of Berlin, replaced by interactive experiences that turn pokes and posts into something much more seamless and sophisticated — yet simple. Advertisers flock to a new medium that offers mass personalization, habitual relationships and, suddenly, rich multimedia. Facebook goes head to head with Flipboard, Zite, Editions and other aggregators while Twitter seeks a partner that can deliver similar stickiness."
facebook  design  mikematas  journalism  advertising 
august 2011 by nijst
The FT and NPR: HTML5 as part of a multi-platform strategy
I’m impressed with the maturity that the FT has demonstrated here. Rather than play up the conflict and engage in an all too typical media industry drama queen spat, the FT used the potential impasse to explore what would be possible with HTML5, the next version of the web mark-up standard. Grimshaw said:
tablet  apple  design  ipad  journalism 
june 2011 by nijst
Are Apps Like Flipboard the Future of Media?: Tech News and Analysis «
That’s why, if and when Mike McCue and Flipboard come to the offices of these newspapers and magazines and other content producers, their executives should think twice before saying “thanks, but we’re fine.” They aren’t fine — far from it. And as Frederic Filloux pointed out recently in a blog post, any one of those media outlets could have come up with something similar to Flipboard or Zite, but didn’t. Instead, they’ve spent their money on apps that amount to copies of their websites, hoping Steve Jobs might help them out of the hole they’ve dug themselves.
journalism  paperdoom  tablet  design  flipboard 
april 2011 by nijst
FRASER » Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research
75 Years of American Finance: A Graphic Presentation 1861-193
economy  history  design  infographics 
march 2011 by nijst
Apple's Jonathan Ive: How did a British polytechnic graduate become its design genius? | Mail Online
'Tangerine had a consultancy contract with the bathroom-fittings company to design a toilet. I was there when Jony made an excellent presentation to this guy who was wearing a red nose because it was Comic Relief day. This clown then decided to throw his weight around and pulled apart Jony’s design. It was ridiculous. Britain lost Jony Ive then and there.'
apple  design  from instapaper
march 2011 by nijst
The Like Log Study - Yury Lifshits - Yahoo! Labs
"Some websites display actual number of pageviews for every article. In this case we can calculate what fraction of visitors is tweeting or sharing a particular story. Our measurements show that for every 1000 visits there are from 5 to 20 likes and tweets. Next time you want to guess pageviews of your competitors, multiply their like counts by 100."
journalism  design  traffic  stats 
march 2011 by nijst
Art and Engineering: How to Build Better Devices - James Fallows - Technology - The Atlantic
"We now know the future of serious reading and writing lies on the screen. But how should we build that future? The conservative answer has been to reproduce each aspect of the book on the screen, adding some incremental changes like color pictures or video illustration to compensate for the expense and inconvenience.  I think we can do more."
design  journalism  writing  tablet 
february 2011 by nijst
The News Feed: The ideal model for presenting news and information online | UX Magazine
However, I am not suggesting that sites like NYTimes.com abandon their current layout and replace it with a single-column news feed. Their content is much too complicated to have such a simple display. However, as users consume more and more information on personal aggregation websites and on mobile devices, all content providers must evolve to meet these new user expectations and browsing styles, and come to think of the news feed as the default model for presenting digital content.
journalism  design 
december 2010 by nijst
Chat With Me About News Site Design? | Talking Points Memo
"I have some of my own ideas -- one of which is that the some of the best things about these new designs is that some exercise a dramatic degree of design restraint, that is a big and pleasing contrast to have messy and widgetized a lot of sites are. But forget I said that. If you've got a moment, look at these two designs and let me know your opinion. What do you think? And if there are other designs you've liked or not liked, let me know about those too."
design  tpm  journalism 
december 2010 by nijst
Flipboard's Mike McCue: Web format has 'contaminated' online journalism | Technology | Los Angeles Times
"Let's leverage the power of the Web -- don't get rid of it, but make the Web beautiful again. We need to give the content room to breathe, and give magazine-style advertisements the opportunity to flourish. We want to allow people to share all this content across many social networks and drive people to retweet and share even more."
journalism  tablet  ipad  design 
december 2010 by nijst
Gawker Is A Blog. Just Like Twitter. - Anil Dash
"The relative widths of the columns accurately reflects the priority of the media companies that host them: Twitter is mostly about the stream, but also about the content; Gawker is primarily about the content but needs to have the stream."
gawker  journalism  design  twitter 
december 2010 by nijst
The new Gawker Media | Analysis & Opinion |
"The CPM game, then, is looking increasingly like a race to the bottom, where publishers desperately try every trick in the book to boost their pageviews and ad impressions, just to compensate for the fact that their revenues per page are very small. The results — sensationalism, salaciousness, and slideshows — only serve to further erode the value of the sites in the eyes of advertisers, and put ever more downward pressure on those CPMs. It’s a vicious cycle, and Denton has decided that now is the time to break it: no longer does he want to deal with advertisers looking idiotically at clickthrough rates. “Clickthroughs,” he writes, “are an indicator of the blindness, senility or idiocy of readers rather than the effectiveness of the ads.”"
gawker  journalism  design  blog 
december 2010 by nijst
Why Gawker is moving beyond the blog
"In order to keep video of the iPhone prototype at the top of the reverse chronological flow, Gizmodo actually stopped publishing for several hours. How ridiculous! In any sane medium, a story as powerful as that, one which was drawing more than 90% of the site's traffic, would be given commensurate real estate; and it wouldn't require a hack to keep the item prominent. Hence the splash story; now we can finally create front pages that match the visual impact of a tabloid wood or magazine cover; and we can leave them up as long as they're generating interest."
journalism  gawker  design 
november 2010 by nijst
Designing The Washington Post App for iPad | Sarah Sampsel
"As I applied these elements at sizes large enough for clear, readable content modules, the grid became much bigger and more simple. Finally, we settled on a ratio allowing for enough headline space, blurb content and photography to display for each story. Plus, the ratio works equally as well in landscape and portrait orientations — the smartest ratio of all… The golden ratio."
washingtonpost  journalism  ipad  tablet  design 
november 2010 by nijst
Marco.org - Geek Luddites
"Think of how many people are so afraid of their PCs that they only do the bare minimum with them and never venture into unknown territory because they’re afraid of “breaking” their computers. How many of them recently bought iPads and have become much more confident and adventurous with usage and applications, since Apple tricked them into thinking that the iPad isn’t a computer?"
design  usability  apple  tablet 
november 2010 by nijst
The Undesigned Web - Dylan Tweney - Technology - The Atlantic
"The Undesigned Web will facilitate critical thinking, sharing of information, and the wider dissemination of knowledge than has ever been previously possible. That's because it will be easier than ever to separate content from the, ahem, bullshit with which it is frequently cloaked: Distracting photo spreads, advertisements, backgrounds, faux-official layouts and logos, and the like. It will be easier to tweet, retweet, blog and reblog content, adding layers upon layers of discussion and criticism while embedding it into new social contexts."
design  journalism  tablet 
november 2010 by nijst
Photos as Web Content (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
"The commonality across all of these examples (and thousands more in our other studies) is that users pay attention to information-carrying images that show content that's relevant to the task at hand. And users ignore purely decorative images that don't add real content to the page. So much fluff — of which there's too much already on the Web.
Invest in good photo shoots: a great photographer can add a fortune to your website's business value."
design 
november 2010 by nijst
Gawker to Drop Its Old Blog Look - WSJ.com
"Gawker's chief technology officer, Thomas Plunkett, said he believes the new design will double the network's monthly page views to one billion a year after launch. Today, he and a cohort of Hungarian programmers are working on such details as improving the speed at which stories slide into view. Other details, such as exactly how the main splash story will be selected, are also in flux."
gawker  journalism  design 
november 2010 by nijst
Hard News Pays Better Than Fluff — or Does It?: Tech News «
"That said, however, they mostly want to be on pages that are about serious topics at websites that are racking up millions of pageviews and unique visitors — and one of the ways to boost those numbers, unfortunately, is to write about Lindsay Lohan (and other similar topics that almost everyone clicks on, even if they don’t want to admit it)."
journalism  traffic  design 
october 2010 by nijst
Why We Built Readability | Arc90 Blog
"For us, the Web is the right bet. The notion of tethering content delivery to a particular proprietary platform or hardware device is admitting defeat. Content is effectively locked up. It’s un-shareable, un-index-able, inaccessible and un-linkable. It’s a glorified form of paper."
journalism  design  readability 
september 2010 by nijst
Meet Treesaver, a New HTML Magazine App | Webmonkey | Wired.com
Pages can be navigated by swiping from side-to-side, and you get helpful ghost images on either side of the page you’re reading, which aid in signposting. Also, the pages within the web app dynamically resize for different screens — and it even resizes on the fly as you make the browser smaller and larger. It’s all HTML, JavaScript and CSS.
tablet  design  journalism  treesaver 
august 2010 by nijst
It's Not You, It's Me: Design Director Khoi Vinh Leaves 'The Times' at Paywall Altar | The New York Observer
"Content apps are weird," he continued. "If you look at most of the apps that are really successful, they're functionally driven — like Twitter or shopping or subway maps. I think it's weird to have an app just for reading when you can just read right on the web."
design  ipad  nytimes  tablet  journalism  khoivinh 
august 2010 by nijst
Shelving system for Vitsœ by designer Dieter Rams in 1960
"Designed by Dieter Rams in 1960, the 606 Universal Shelving System was conceived to be timeless. You can add a single shelf to a system bought 50 years ago and then take it with you when you move."
rams  design 
july 2010 by nijst
Subtraction.com: A Change
"That requires an underrated but critical skill that’s worth taking a moment to elaborate upon: beyond their substantial talent, these people get along with people, which is a remarkably effective tool that surprisingly few designers possess. "
design  subtraction  nytimes  khoivinh 
july 2010 by nijst
Non Hover | Trent Walton
"Prioritize your content, and if you’ve been hiding things behind hover states, make room to display them. The WordPress admin posts screen is a great example of this. Normally, action items are only visible on hover, but if you login with a touch device the links are always displayed."
multitouch  tablet  design 
july 2010 by nijst
Subtraction.com: Show Me the Money (for Art Direction)
"Rather what I’m saying is that these publishers are right now enthralled by the newness of the iPad and they perceive in it an opportunity that really doesn’t exist. The iPad looks to publishers like a fresh start in the world of digital, one more last chance to recapture the old ad dollars that the Web essentially dissolved. Even if those ad dollars return, what these publishers are wishfully ignoring at the moment is the fact that the kind of art direction these magazines require is very labor intensive and very expense-heavy — it costs a lot of money to art direct. It’s a value equation that worked for print but won’t work in tablet media, just like it didn’t work on the Web. When that realization dawns on publishers, they’ll stop paying for it."
journalism  ipad  tablet  design 
april 2010 by nijst
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