This AMAZING advertising appears in one of italian airport. It is developed by AdmCom agency for Casino di Venezia. As you can see the luggage belt has been painted and looks like casino roulette wheel!
Agency: AdmCom, Italy
Creative Director: Maurizio Cinti
Art Director: Andrea Ligi, Sergio Lelli
Copyrighter: Rebecca Rossi, Silva Fedrigo
It seems that designers developed "Lada C" play their usual game again—the design of new "Lada C" is very similar to new VW Golf V, Jetta, Caddy and Audi A3.
Find 10 differences below:
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Another delay??? Oh NO!
Source: http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/03/27/optimus/index.php
The much-talked about Optimus Maximus keyboard project is facing another problem but the product should still be available this year, its designer said Tuesday.
The manufacturer of the OLED (organic light-emitting diode) displays that are intended to be fitted inside each key is having “serious financial troubles and is not able to deliver displays at all,” designer Artemy Lebedev wrote on the Optimus project’s blog. He didn’t name the display maker.
The displays are an important part of the keyboard and just what makes it stand out. Each of the 114 keys will be customizable and the OLED display in each key will signify the key’s current function. These could include various letters or characters for different languages, quick launch buttons for applications or short-cut keys for programs.
The loss of its OLED manufacturer means the project team has to find a new manufacturer and prototype new displays, Lebedev wrote.
“Good news is that we will start tooling processes without waiting for the displays to arrive. This way we’ll be able to insert OLEDs into the keyboard case with electronics and stay within our schedule,” he wrote.
Lebedev, who is based in Moscow, noted that should the new displays be a different size from the original plan it would mean additional delays and charges for retooling the production line to suit the new OLEDs.
Along with details of the problem Lebedev also said that the keyboard is still on-track to ship in December with preorders accepted from April. That just about matches the time-frame he gave at the Cebit trade fair in Germany earlier this month.
The keyboard was supposed to be unveiled at the fair but wasn’t on show.
At Cebit, Lebedev said it will cost about $1,500 when it goes on sale in December. That’s at least $300 more expensive than the price quoted by the company in November last year.
See Also: http://community.livejournal.com/optimus_project/
Source: http://www.davidairey.com/blog/usa-vs-rest-of-the-world-a-graphic-design-comparison/
Just how different is graphic design in the United States when compared with that of the rest of the world?
I think you’ll agree that the difference is quite striking.
This week, TIME Magazine’s US cover features a story about whether or not the Bible should be taught in school. It’s international editions feature a different story however – that of Talibanistan.
Apparently Rick Stengel et al. believe that the US cover design will make a better news-stand impression in the States. Politics aside, you’d think they could’ve designed a nicer cover.
see the rest there: http://www.davidairey.com/blog/usa-vs-rest-of-the-world-a-graphic-design-comparison/
Today I wanna share my UI design experience and introduce you top 10 tools for UI designers, information architects and usability specialists. Below is the complete list of tools which help the UI designers in their difficult work.
Company: Axure
Company: Elegance Tech
“iRise simulations are so close to the final applications that people can't tell the difference between the two. SunTrust recently unveiled their new banking application-a critical element in retaining acquired customers through a merger with NCF Bank-that was simulated first. In addition to look & feel, the user experience between the simulation and the final website are nearly identical.”This is a real simulation engine that allows users to save, edit, and delete requirements data. iRise Manager provides the most comprehensive requirements management solution. Studio generates a portable simulation known as an iDoc, which can be reviewed with the free iRise Reader. Shared Server enables collaboration and incorporates a model for check-in/out capabilities and synchronization with the requirements management server. The shared server also provides an alternative delivery method, allowing stakeholders to view the simulation by accessing a URL. iDoc Express is a cost-effective service offering, where companies hand over requirements and receive a comprehensive simulation at a fixed price. No product purchase or installation is required. This is by far the most mature product in this space, with the most extensive list of recognizable customer names.
Company: Serena
Company: Simunication
Company: Intuitect
Company: OmniGroupsource: http://www.designboom.com/eng/
Brazilian designer Roberta Rimme introduced conceptual furniture, all-in-one set which can be used by teenagers and youth as computer workplace, shelves for books and CDs/DVDs, built-in TV system, etc.
See how the designer can operate with object shape to make the world easier. It is very cool when designer works with thin interaction things not only with visualization and functionality:
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This work is idea of russian designer Dmitry Komissarov.
See more on his site
You may find the most interesting letters below (I've underlined them by red line):
Hm..... look at the picture below. This is 15-March Microsoft Web Site. Try to find something extraordinary:
Okay, load Adobe Photoshop and invert the image. Then I made it bigger and fill with more contrast colour. Enjoy:
Does it mean that Microsoft places watermarks on their own images? Don't know :)
There are some new features inside:
1) New style of buttons
2) Changes in buttons location and links to have more usable application
3) Ability to view video from blip.tv
4) Labels have been renamed to Tags
5) As Goodle said - there are some improvements in server-side code
6) "Oops errors" now fixed in FireFox
7) WebKit support getting better
As you maybe know, the most thin bottle-neck we've ever had in a system security—is a human itself, which works in a system and performs incorrect actions which decrease security level.
90 percent hacks of super-protected systems usually appears when the user lost his password and someone else just simply enters his password to log in the system.
This topic is about how system admins can decrease level of security by using additional methods of increasing of secutiry :)
It's a fact, that human brain and memory—uniques substances, but, unfortunately, have a couple of limitations and lacks. The most famous disadvantage and problem is an ability to remember only very limited amout of numbers, for exaplme, phone and fax numbers (with no connection to letters, just long-long numbers) and too many complex passwords to access in various systems, which need to be stored in your memory!
The situation is usually complicated by system administators. You may ask: "How"? Let us explain you. The policy is very hard: at least 9 digit password, you need to change the password 1 time per 1-3 month, plus as additional nonsense—you need to have a password which won't be similar to 10 previous ones!
And now, what do we have as a result of such a cool policy? You are right: users write their passwords at stickers, monitors, at small pieces of paper and store this stuff at their wallets, etc.
We can undestand a situation when the user has 1 PNR for each 1 Credit card, but why do we need to make our life more complicated for the user which starts his day with the logging into system domain?
There are some simply rules, hope using of them allows to simplify and make everyone's life easier:
1) requirement to change user's password very often is bad. Yes, this action increases system security a little, but the negative effect (which it cause) is very huge. The system must ask uer to change the password not often than 1 time per 4-6 month. At the same time the user can decide—to do this action or not to do. So, the system just recommends and prompts.
2) if the user wants to change the password, don't prohibit to do this. As a workaround, the system can say the user that the new password is too similar to previous one.
3) there is no necessary to require including of the all possible digit-groups in one password phrase at the same time. Actually, using of numbers and letters is ussualy enough to develop a strong password.
4) and the final rule: password length. 6-8 symbols usually enough. If you want to help the user with establishing of a strong password—use real-time help tips like Google does:
Not so far, at www.ui.by we informed community about a very interesting event: the first usability bulletin has been released. And now, Dmitry Satin, an author of the the usability bulletin, developed the second issue of his bulletin.
You can subscribe on the bulletin here. Authors of this blog are gonna take part into development of bulletin's content. We will keep you posted on the process.
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