Ben Bodien

Cool Drainage

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:13:36 +0100

Two interesting sinks. Both via Yanko Design.

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NOFRKS Design

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:47:33 +0100

NOFRKS Design: Beautiful site with a scroll based page navigation system. The background image you see is dependent on the time of day as well.

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Automated Phone Systems

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:16:20 +0100

Automated Phone Systems: Seth Godin has some thoughts on the value of automated customer service phone systems. My personal favourite is Virgin Media’s, which seems to route your call to a different centre based on a function of your answers, and...

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Web Form Design

Sat, 10 May 2008 12:28:41 +0100

Web Form Design: Luke Wroblewski’s new book on designing web forms comprehensively covers the art and science of laying out the blanks, in every aspect from design and organisation, to validation and inline help text. A fresh addition to the...

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DHL Non-Express Tracking

Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:05:40 +0100

Expecting a delivery sent via DHL, and armed with a consignment number, I attempted to track the package. Hilarity ensued as the code was not recognised by the fast track box on the front page, an actual pop up appearing to display an error:...

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Little People

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:48:09 +0100

Little People: Art installation by Slinkachu at Nuart, Stavanger, Norway.

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When was the last time I thought about buying myself a pop-up...

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:30:13 +0000

When was the last time I thought about buying myself a pop-up book?

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Designing Office 2007

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:16:11 +0000

Designing Office 2007: Jensen Harris, the man responsible for user experience in the Microsoft Office group, delivers a near-comprehensive talk on how the Office 2007 UI was conceived. A must-see for interface designers, and highly recommended...

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The Second Best Firefox Extension in the World

Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:49:30 +0000

The Second Best Firefox Extension in the World: After the almighty Firebug, and just ahead of AdBlock Plus.

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Splash Pages can be Good Things

Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:01:05 +0000

At HP, if you’re not in the USA and you don’t think to inform them as such when you hit the homepage using the dropdown at the top (not a primary nav element by any means), you’re in for a big dose of inconvenient. Typical usage path for HP website...

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Absolut Quartet - Interactive Musical Robots

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:54:00 +0000

Absolut Quartet - Interactive Musical Robots: Ever dreampt of being able to play a melody and have a robot jam along with you by firing rubber balls at a giant marimba, while another blends in a haunting layer of harmonised crystal glass resonation...

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Probably the best nature macro I’ve ever seen. By Martin...

Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:15:00 +0000

Probably the best nature macro I’ve ever seen. By Martin Amm on photo.net.

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Jan Von Holleben - Dreams Of Flying

Wed, 20 Feb 2008 13:27:14 +0000

Jan Von Holleben - Dreams Of Flying: Pure photographic magic.

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PR Suicide

Tue, 19 Feb 2008 19:20:26 +0000

PR Suicide: A free lesson in how not to put the lid on a national PR disaster for your small business, by Mr Langsdon of Lichfield, Staffordshire. Although he could have been quoted out of context, he seems to have implied that he and his business...

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Twitter Help

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:55:00 +0000

Twitter Help: Probably the best web app support form in the world.

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Hypo-D-Crit

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:25:21 +0000

The New York based School of Visual Arts is now offering an MFA in “design criticism”. One might wonder if the first project for students would be a critique of the course’s own webpage; itself a hilariously dire attempt at their principle...

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A Year in Iraq - New York Times

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:29:30 +0000

A Year in Iraq - New York Times: NYT’s graphics folks produce yet another captivating infographic depicting fatalities in the Iraq conflict, coded over time by organisation and cause of death.

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Stupendous Structures for Science

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:23:31 +0000

Ten incredible scientific research facilities from around the world. These photos are must-see category one alpha plus. Part one, part two.

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Fluid - Run Webapps as Native Applications on OS X

Wed, 02 Jan 2008 09:04:28 +0000

Fluid - Run Webapps as Native Applications on OS X

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Full Fat Task/Email Mashing

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:08:00 +0000

The lovely people at Remember The Milk, a web based To Do list service have built a Firefox extension on the GMail/Greasemonkey API to bring their To Do lists right into GMail. The problem I’ve always had with all these web services for managing my...

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