Getting SimTower set up on a modern machine.

Getting SimTower set up on a modern machine.

Top and left navigations are typical on large screens, but lack of screen real estate on small screens makes for an interesting challenge. As responsive design becomes more popular, it’s worth looking at the various ways of handling navigation for small screen sizes. Mobile web navigation must strike a balance between quick access to a site’s information and unobtrusiveness.

“@KristinOnAir: UI screens from The Avengers ”

"The flight menu was designed with input from an A-10 fighter pilot."

Get ready for SIGGRAPH 2012:

“@clintbeharry: OMFG Nicolas Jaar BBC Essential Mix – "

I'm like 10 minutes in and I feel the need to share this.

Jaw-dropping walk through the Cooper Union architecture end of year show. Such beautiful experimentation...

Looking at digital pictures: Where have all the humans gone? at Mercedes Bunz (via Instapaper)

The Listening Machine is an automated system that generates a continuous piece of music based on the activity of 500 Twitter users around the United Kingdom. Their conversations, thoughts and feelings are translated into musical patterns in real time, which you can tune in to at any point through any web-connected device.

It discusses my introduction to echolocation, a process where a blind person can learn to see by making tongue clicks. The brain interprets the echoes and activates the visual center of the brain. The previous article ended with me seeing my cat run up a flight of stairs. I thought I had seen it all, but just wait until you read what happened after that.

Geeking out over the digital/analog shop the @svaixd kids will get to play in next year.

“@svaixd: It's a beautiful day for an IxD festival! #invision”

Can't make it? Hit up the live stream at above link.

Datavisualization.ch Selected Tools is a collection of tools that we, the people behind Datavisualization.ch, work with on a daily basis and recommend warmly. This is not a list of everything out there, but instead a thoughtfully curated selection of our favourite tools that will make your life easier creating meaningful and beautiful data visualizations.

RT @butdoesitfloat: Images acquired by the Landsat 7 satellite:

.@nprmusic has the new Beach House:

Welcome to Retromags, the vintage video game magazine archive. This site is all about digitally preserving video game magazines from yesteryear. You'll find hundreds of full issues to download and thousands of scanned magazine covers. Game magazines used to be incredibly important to the game industry, and while those days are long gone thanks to the Internet and World Wide Web, that does not mean those old magazines shouldn't be remembered and enjoyed today. This site allows you to do so easily and digitally. It's a nice alternative to having to have boxes of magazines stored in your house if that's something you don't want.

Collect, test, and experiment with interface pattern pairings of CSS & HTML. Pears is an open source WordPress theme, enabling people like you to get your own pattern library up and running quickly.

Rethinking the American Dream | Vanity Fair (via Instapaper)

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One World Trade Center Becomes Tallest In Town Today

So long, dear friend.

I give Beat Sneak Bandit five stars –

“Internet technology used to feel like it was really going to change so many things about our lives.”

The video of my talk "Interacting with Sound" has been posted: Recommended if you like interaction design and sound.

Two homers already!! Not a bad way to spend a Monday night with dad

After talking about the concept and logistics with a few people who are part of the growing ecosystem of Instagram products, Tom and I decided to make Coastermatic an LLC. LLC stands for ‘Limited Liability Company’, which basically means the finances for the company are separate from our personal accounts. We’re hoping it’ll be smooth sailing for Coastermatic, but its better to be safe than sorry.

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I'm at Tortas Frontera (Chicago, IL) w/ 3 others

The new Beach House album? Pre-ordered that so hard.

I was very surprised to find out that designers were using Keynote for laying out presentations. My surprise turned to alarm when I found out that they were also using it as a design tool to build UI designs for websites and apps. It turns out that I was absolutely wrong.

Yesterday, we announced a trio of new maps on maps.stamen.com - we've had a lot of interest in how the watercolor map gets generated, so here's the play-by-play.

Here's the steps you need to take to play Grim Fandango on a modern computer.

I'm at New York's Best Halal Food (New York, NY)

Such an article could not be more perfectly timed. “@wselman: Wireframes Must Die. ”

It’s easy to spot a beautiful portfolio. Designers know that looks sell, and many people sell themselves that way. Of course, the ability to make something that looks good matters, especially for visual designers. But the challenge is that great images say nothing about what it will be like to work with someone, or whether they’ll be consistently able to produce good work.

"The True Gamers Strategic Choice"