Data + Design Project

Crazy About Wine on Vine

Monday 01.28.2013 , Posted by

With Twitter’s newest app Vine, rather than seeing an Instagram snapshot of everything your friends eat or drink, you can watch a looping six second video of it! To keep up with the world’s declining attention spans, users must select just 6 seconds of footage to capture a moment. Surprisingly the videos can be very entertaining, especially since you can watch them as they are posted, in real-time, on vinepeek.com. It’s as if people around the world have their own 6 second reality show and you can choose which ones to tune into on Twitter. [Read more...]

WTHR: Smart Weather App in the Style of Dieter Rams

Thursday 06.28.2012 , Posted by

In so many ways Dieter Rams had it right with his 10 Principles of Good Design… and this weather app based on those principles gets a lot of things right too. Designed in the light, purposeful style of Rams’ work for Braun, the app features just the information you need and provides it all on one intuitive screen. With the white iPhone shown here, the clean aesthetic of the design is just gorgeous. [Read more...]

Brilliant: App Predicts Weather for the Near Future

Monday 11.07.2011 , Posted by

We’ve all had plans to do something outdoors during a day when the weather prediction says 90% chance of rain… but when is that rain going to hit? Now, an in development app called Black Sky aims to answer that question, and look beautiful in the process [Read more...]

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Holidays are Covered: App Creates & Mails Your Cards

Thursday 10.27.2011 , Posted by

For all you good people that keep in contact with friends during the holidays, here’s a soon to be released app that could revolutionize your card sending frenzy. Sincerely Ink lets you not only create cards directly on your iPhone, iPad or Android phone, but also mail them directly from your contacts. There are over 30 different designs and your messages are guaranteed to arrive or your money back. The current price for each sent card is just $1.69, which when you consider how much time your saving, the fact that it’s a custom card and the cost of postage, is quite a deal. See sincerely.com/ink for more info and to be first to know when the app is released [Read more...]

The Starter Upper: A Tool For Imagining New Start-Ups

Tuesday 09.27.2011 , Posted by

One of the very best ways to come up with new ideas is by using the concept of ‘random association.’ By combining two or more apparently unrelated ideas, you come up with a third that really makes you think. That’s just what the folks at Vitamin T have created for us when it comes to creating a new start-up. By dragging a selection of two or three different attributes into their magic venn diagram Starter Upper, you not only get to jog your imagination about a random start-up idea (mobile + game mechanics + geo-location = Foursquare)… they even give you a catchy title for your new venture (catchiness does vary). Try it for yourself! [Read more...]

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Mobile App Identifies A Tree By Its Leaf

Monday 05.09.2011 , Posted by

Trees are not just a simple part of nature, they’re a immensely complex structure that requires an vast amount of knowledge to understand. Leafsnap is first in a series of recently launched apps designed to turn mobile app users into citizen dendrologists. [Read more...]

Visual Bits #50 > Embrace

Tuesday 05.03.2011 , Posted by


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Make a Crazy Video, Win a Private Island Stay

Saturday 03.12.2011 , Posted by

If only airline safety brochures were as fun and entertaining as this one… and if they had in-air competitions it would be even better! This contest put on by the seriously speedy flight search site Hipmunk (we love it) and travel accomodation site Airbnb, challenges you to share your best crazy video using phone app, SocialCam. The reward? A week long trip to your own, palm tree lined, private island paradise in Fiji!

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Things People Don’t Say About Web Apps

Wednesday 02.23.2011 , Posted by

Aren’t you just thrilled about updating your banking security question? Wait, didn’t you just do that last time you logged in? These clever images by the site Things Real People Don’t Say About Your App, sarcastically put it all in perspective. Check out the site for frequent updates that really drive the point home… and don’t worry, you won’t be asked a security question.
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iPhone 360Panorama App

Saturday 01.08.2011 , Posted by

Creating a 360-degree interactive panorama of your next party, big game, or messy bedroom is now a simple feat, and all you need to have is an iPhone. Released recently by Occipital, 360Panorama only requires that you slowly spin in a circle while capturing the world around you. The app then weaves the images together and best of all, lets you navigate it from the phone, or later on the web. They’ve even added a feature that uses the phone’s built-in gyroscope to navigate the image by spinning around, just as if you were still at the scene of the shoot. [Read more...]