Salon.com’s coverage of Britney Spears is great. “We’re only interested in the cultural manifestations of Britney-dom, we swear.” This article points to a Google Trends infographic which embodies the essence of good information display: lots of data pulled together in a way that tells a compelling story.
Archive for January, 2008
San Francisco, from the (middle of a) helicopter
Last evening’s jaunt to the Mission Cliffs climbing gym was successful in that I completed more bouldering routes than the number of mild injuries I sustained. I pushed myself to the limits of what I was able to do, just as all of the other climbers were pushing themselves to their limits, as well. In […]
One of the highlights of LifeCamp was the discussion about theme words and what our theme word for 2008 would be. (Mine was “create.”) Chris Messina posted his to twitter, and thus a meme was born. See Chris’s recounting: Kicking off 2008 with a themeword
I wondered if there were any interesting patterns in the #themewords, […]
The inaugural LifeCamp was held in San Francisco Dec. 30 and 31. Tantek Çelik and I concocted and organized this new flavor of BarCamp to provide a venue for thinking thoughtfully, strategically, and collaboratively about life planning and decision-making.
LifeCamp was a two-day event, with the first day focused on reflection (what did you accomplish and […]
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- You 2.0: A documentary on lifehacking
- Killface on the essence of information design
- Mozilla + StopBadware.org = WIN
- A tale of two cancellation processes
- New York Times: “How Design Can Save Democracy”
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- Shameless plug for our SxSW panel: Vote! Attend!
- “A charmingly normal distribution:” Adventures with mystery data
- amaztype: good use of the amazon.com API
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I'm Juliette Melton, a San Francisco resident, user experience researcher, and infrequent blogger. This is where I share interesting examples of user experiences that I come across and where I post updates on my various projects. See linoleumjet.com for my more photo-related postings.