Four Design Links is a review of the design- and ethics-related stories we've been reading online this week.
1. Watch this Presentation: Square
Something that caught our eye a while back. This video is one of the most clever and legible explanations we've seen. It takes a complex, multi-step product and makes it seem accessible to anyone. Bravo!
2. The Six Things Clients Want
A nice reminder of what the designer's job really entails, e.g. you aren't just building your client a website, you're inspiring them, bringing in ideas, and improving process. See past the product in the contract. What does your client really want?
3. Adobe's Magic Paintbrush: Context Aware Fill
Very impressive technology demo. The "uncropping" part at the end is astounding. I was skeptical, but it's not a hoax. This will be in CS5.
It's not 100% perfect, but from the look of things, it's about 90% what you'd get if you spent hours with the Clone Stamp. I'd call that progress.
((as somebody commented on the Adobe blog, with this tech, sites like iStockphoto are going to need some new watermarks...))
4. A Manifesto of Manifestos
I like this post and tend to agree with its observations. Sort of a meta-manifesto.
Needs to be 10 points, though. A nice round number. ;)
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Nick — Mar 25, 2010
Microsoft's new search algorithm returns more relevant search results by focusing on a page's "stickiness" as opposed to its incoming links.
Microsoft Research just published a paper revealing a new type of web search ranking — BrowseRank [pdf] — as revealed at last week's SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval) conference. (Thanks for the heads-up James).
The gist of the proposal is that search results are ranked by how long users tend to stay on a single page vs. the amount of incoming links a page has (i.e. PageRank).
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Paul — Aug 4, 2008
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Adobe's branding strategy for its CS3 line is so great, it's algorithmic.
About six months ago, Adobe launched its CS3 line of design software, the first revisions of its products since the company acquired their primary competitor, Macromedia. Inevitably, new versions mean new branding. (I mean, how else is someone going to know it’s new, right?) So what did they do that is worth blogging about?
Imagine Adobe’s task for CS3. They already have dozens of products, all centered around design. They merge with the next biggest guy in the game, which adds even more products. Macromedia’s brands have strong identities and associations of their own, and, at the time of the merger, these are more unified than Adobe’s. How does Adobe successfully assimilate these new brands?
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Nick — Nov 5, 2007
