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Posts from June 2009

Baseball Infographics

Craig Robinson has created a set of amazing baseball infographics over at Flip Flop Fly Ball. One of my favorites is “Home Team Dugouts” (below) which shows the side that MLB teams use as their home dugout. Before seeing this graphic, I thought the home dugout was nearly always on the on the first baseline… [...]


The Research-Inspired Design blog

In addition to this site and CodBall, I am now actively writing for Research-Inspired Design, which was launched along with the new HumanCentric website. Research-Inspired Design is the HumanCentric blog, where the whole company (usability specialists, industrial designers, graphic designers, software engineers, and interaction designers) share our thoughts on user experience. Check it out, and [...]


Learning from Amazon.com

Jared Spool (UIE) is always fun to listen to, and his latest work of art, “Revealing Design Treasures from the Amazon” is now on Slideshare. In the presentation, Spool introduces Amazon.com as a unique place on the Internet, where strange things happen, like the reviews for Tuscan Whole Milk, 1 Gallon, 128 fl oz. Some [...]


Mr. Penumbra’s Twenty-Four Hour Book Store

This is a delightful must-read fictional short story that is available for free online or $0.80 on the Kindle. It’s about a peculiar book store, Google book scanning, information visualization, and immortality. The author is Current TV‘s Robin Sloan. Hopefully the Kindle platform and/or other quick online publishing solutions will encourage more short stories like [...]