Patty Ho Design | Web Interactive Designer

Swine Flu Google Map

I love technology. Now this Google Swine Flu Map will tell me where NOT to travel these days..

10 retarded way to save money

Sleep in the airport if you are cheapen out on accomodation. Not eat on monday will save you money? And make you r own Feminine Hygiene? K. I love saving money, but I am not that retarded.

Sometimes I check out Information Aesthetics once a while just because it showcases interesting ways how some developers or application handles information visually.

Currently my company is doing a revamp on our biggest news site – thestar.com. With the new design, I can see that we are trying to de-clutter our information display. However, we still can’t get away from our traditional ways of display information.

When I saw this Google newsmap post from Information Aesthetics

It gives the “control” to the users to “discover” the stories vs our traditional ways of controlling the output.

Jeff Veen from Small Batch, Inc., who is also known from WikiRank gave this excellent speech on designing for big data. He clearly stated that giving the control to the users over data is definately the trend and the future of the web. He stated couple important rules about data visualization.

• We are always storytelling our contents, now it’s time to give user control to have them to discover the story
• We provides visual cues for users, now it’s time to make it into tools so that the users can interact and control their cues.
• We provide editing features but now it’s time to give the filtering control to the user to manage the output
  

And this is truly the manner of web 2.0 approach. We are giving the control to the users in a less response time and more interactive way.

Free Coffee from McDonalds

I like the fact they are using Facebook to track their Ads. This is definately very effective and accurate to know how many people have actually seen the ad.

Add patterns and “wow” factor to your IKEA furnitures

I was just snooping around ikeahacker and saw this product from Grippiks.com. It’s a stick on and easy to remove pattern that you can put on your IKEA furniture. It’s actually made for IKEA sizes. It’s cute and funky!

I finally got some chance to come back to do some reading and surfing before my work haunts me.

70+ Practical Cheat Sheets For Web Designers And Developers

Didn’t I just post 20 practical cheat sheets from web resources depot a while ago? Now there’s 70 cheat sheets! Frickn’ sweet!

5 cm. fir tree removed from patient’s lung

K, this is totally random, gross and unbelievable. Watch what you breath in while walking under the trees.

Wanna track how many users had visited your site using mobile?

There are an increasing number of users using mobile surfing internet these days. Percentmobile.com definately will help provide you a stat of how many people had visited your site using a mobile device. I haven’t had a chance to try it out yet but will soon

Ok, am I the only one who knows that Standford University is giving out free lesson of iPhone Application Programming through iTune?

Here’s wired’s article a week ago.
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/04/apple-stanford.html

You can download free video clips and slides from iTune.
Here’s how you get to it.
1. Open your iTune.
2. Go to iTunes Store (on your left hand side in case you don’t know..)
3. Go to iTunes U (it should be in the box on the top left hand side that says “iTunes Store”)
4. Go to “Top Downloads”, it should be the first item that says “1. Introduction to Mac OSX and Cocoa Touch..”
5. once you get to the page. just download both Video clips and PDFs. the new one comes out every single week.

Here’s another link on Apple.com about iPhone Developer University Program.

Good luck!