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The previous home page had grown organically over the last few years and hadn’t keep up with how the business has developed. Since the last major update LF have launched a new magazine section, cinema listings and video on demand – none of which were highlighted on the home page very well. Many pages of the site have also been updated to a new, more visually appealing look and feel, which now needed to be echoed on the homepage.
The power and beauty of data visualization is something that the crew at Made By Many always get excited about.
Making previously ‘invisible’ information visible, not to mention aesthetically stunning, is a fascinating and rapidly growing field.
So I’m super-delighted to let you know that Manuel Lima, all-round dataviz guru, curator of the brilliant Visual Complexity blog, and recent TED speaker, will be speaking in London at BBH’s offices next Tuesday 25 August between 3.30-4.30pm.
So it’s that time of the year again when those 4 letters of the alphabet start popping up on every geek’s radar with a frequency that probably makes them spin around like a top with excitement or scream at pitches that allow only bats to listen. The latter of which probably wouldn’t help their (our??) cause, but I’m getting ahead of myself.
We use Basecamp to manage projects. It’s great for creating tasks and milestones that can be assigned to those responsible. It keeps conversations neatly organized in threads while you can attach documents/screen shots to these.
There’s loads of similar web based services out there. But although they might be easy to use, this is in no way a guarantee that people stay on top of recording (or even completing!) their tasks. A few weeks into the project you often find that the whole group, previously collaborating in one space, have moved the whole thing offline, into their separate in-boxes and what have you. Now things have turned a little bit Texas.
Ad agency Nova Vista in Norway has found an innovative way of keeping cars clean. Buckle in tight, here it comes……Female drivers.
The agency is now on the lookout for 70 (tidy) women to drive their ad decorated cars around town. (sorry, link in Norwegian)
“Seeking clean women is a visual way of communicating that we’re looking for people who will keep the cars neat and tidy. Great ambassadors, it’s that simple,” said Nova Vista’s MD.
Speaking to the Norwegian paper Dagbladet, he also tells us that the added bonus by using women is that we also don’t drive like pigs.
Following on from my last post about PTH’s Campaigns pages, the new Actions pages are now live as well. Together they make for a much improved user experience, not to mention how much better they look. Our hope is that this inspires more people to campaign for human rights. A huge thank you to Julia, Paul Sims, Oli and our development partners New Bamboo for their work on this.
We’ve been labouring long and hard with the folks at New Bamboo and of course Amnesty UK to deliver some important design changes to the Protect The Human campaigning platform. Our hope is that these changes will make the site easier to use and more compelling to visit, encouraging more people to take actions and champion the cause of human rights.
A tweet randomly flew through my cascading deck over the weekend, containing a link to a blog I’d never visited before.
Contra the NY Times today, why the web is the greatest serendipity engine in the history of culture: http://bit.ly/yZNa2 about 16 hours ago about 16 hours ago
The blog post is by Stephen B Johnson and articulates a frustration I’ve been struggling with for a long time. I don’t get this idea Web technologies are responsible for a decline in ‘natural’ serendipity.
A quick follow-up on my post about love, greed and innovation.
In some discussions since, I’ve pointed to Apple as an example of how greed is trumped by love. It may seem surprising to think of a multi-billion dollar corporation, famed for its premium products and ruthless business practices, as being motivated by love, but there are a number of things that show this is true.
