The Rapidly Disappearing Business of Design By almost every measure, 2014 was a breakthrough year for design and big business. Any list of highlights would include John Maeda joining the ranks of Kleiner Perkins as a partner, Jony Ive re-asserting Apple’s product vision and IBM rapidly building the largest design team on the planet. Beyond all of the hype, we can measure the rise of design in terms of dollars invested by major corporations in design talent. In 2014, design went to the bank! The recent departure of Todd Simmons—the top creative at arguably the most celebrated brand agency in the world, Wolff Olins—for the leadership team at IBM is a fitting bookend to the year. So, you might ask yourself why leading design firms are contracting or exiting the business just when it has become more relevant than ever to corporate America. Adaptive Path, a bay area pioneer in User Experience Design (UX), recently exited the business, finding greener pastures as the in-house design agency for Capital One. Robert Fabricant's About
3D Print Your Own Solderless Circuit One of the main problems with making your own circuits is the tricky and often dangerous soldering process, so Instructables user Mikey77 has come up with a solderless 3D printed circuit. It is the same size as standard 1/16" thick, through-hole soldered perfboard, and can be made a little quicker than soldered circuits, but it does require a bit of skill to make. This example is a simple micro-controller circuit that flashes three LED's in sequence. It was made on a MakerBot Replicator 2 with PLA filament and is intended to be a minimal illustration of what is possible. In order to avoid using a soldering iron, he uses a commercial conductive paint, though he does include recipes for making your own conductive glue here and here, as well as recipes for conductive rubber here and here. If you don't want to make the circuit yourself, you can also send the stl file to Shapeways, or another commercial 3D printer. Have you heard about the 3D Printer World Expo?
Myths busted about Web Design and User Experience - Octal Info Solution UK Web design is a crucial factor when you intend to pass on a information to users through online presence or web platform. Design of business website drops an impression on your users about personality of your business. If you are searching for any product over internet, then several suggestions will be displayed by search engine. We generally click on some website displayed by search engine in search result but stop at only that website which serves better designing experience. There are several things to consider about web designing and user experience when you have a sketch of web design in your mind. Below mentioned are some misconceptions about web designing and user experience that everyone need to consider before designing any web page. Your visitor likes to read This is very common myth among webmasters and web designers. Number of clicks is important When it is product related website, then navigation matters a lot. Fewer Scrolls Design is only about looks Responsiveness in design
432 Hz - Your Natural Rhythm For Spiritual Evolution A=432 Hz, known as Verdi’s ‘A’ is an alternative tuning that is mathematically consistent with the universe. Music based on 432Hz transmits beneficial healing energy, because it is a pure tone of math fundamental to nature. The universal music of sacred geometry According to Brain T. Collins, a musician and researcher, the standard pitch (A=440 Hz) does not harmonize on any level that corresponds to cosmic movement, rhythm, or natural vibration. There’s a growing musical and metaphysical movement for recovering optimal integrity in the music industry and spirituality through the 432Hz tuning. The healing benefits According to Richard Huisken, music tuned to 432 Hz is softer and brighter, giving greater clarity and is easier on the ears. 432 Hz seems to work at the heart chakra, “the feeling”, and therefore could have a good influence on the spiritual development of the listener. Listen to 432Hz and enjoy living in balance Where does it come from? Orpheus playing at in harmony with nature
How to Craft your Mobile Web Strategy - Octal Info Solution UK Instant access, one touch communication and screen responsiveness have something in common. These features come naturally to your mind when you thing about mobile web. Mobile web development takes care of these ideas and many more around the realm of mobility, to give you the personalized handy gadget feel across all responsive affairs of interaction with your mobile device. Well, for something that important, you need to be much focused with your proceedings and craft real ideas doing justice to its kind existence. Avoid scaling down your desktop site This is the first thing you should do to get on the right track with your mobile website. Focus on User Experience Mobile has its purpose to serve. Structure the content right Placing the compressed version of desktop content on your mobile website is not going to work. Related Posts 6 Stages for Building a WebsiteDesigning a website is more of a function.
Pit Greenhouses Pit Greenhouses Depending on latitude, but despite above ground air temperatures (and wind chill), 6 to 8 feet down into the earth, temperatures remain fairly constant, between 50 and 60°F. Meaning your pit greenhouse will be much warmer than an above ground greenhouse in winter and that cool earth will keep temps bearable in the summer. Pit greenhouse in Spetchley Gardens, UK. Underground greenhouse. Mike Oehler’s pit greenhouse design. Called a walipini in South America (from the Aymara Indian language, meaning "place of warmth"). Earthbag pit greenhouse. Sun pit greenhouse. Here is a large walipini in LaPaz, Bolivia. Pit greenhouse made of local stone in Nepal at almost 10,000 feet altitude, where the temperature falls below freezing 199 days per year. This pit greenhouse in Mongolia is currently producing food during three seasons of the year. Inside of above pit greenhouse. Greenhouse built into a hill in Tennesee. Earth sheltered greenhouse with earthbag walls in Patagonia. How To:
How Robust Management Can Help In Rapid Mobile App Development There were days when app development was considered too far to be an easy-to-reach solution. Businesses would get in a catch-22 situation while taking their decisions on how to go about it. Change is inevitable and with time, things became more approachable and gettable. With the availability of different development choices and easy resource options, mobile app development has become really a term to reckon with. Surely, with the change in the models that have become more relevant and the processes that have become advance, getting your app developed is now quite a normal thing that even a business with limited budget can go for. If you look deep into the fact, most of the enterprise applications just need to cater a limited number of users that come under their utility radar. To manage such requirements and to conduct the ground-level exercises to decide on what is needed to cater to a certain class of audience through an app, robust management is needed. Related Posts
Watch This Freaky Gyro Cube Balance Perfectly, Defying Gravity | Wired Design Yikes. Image: ETH Zurich All Google wants for Christmas is a bunch of scary ass robots. Clearly, the big ticket items under the tree are Big Dog and the rest of the Boston Dynamics nightmare menagerie. But if Larry and Sergey are still looking for a stocking stuffer, this freaky balancing cube might be just the thing. Cubli, a project out of the Dynamic Systems and Control lab at the Swiss engineering school ETH Zurich, is a 6 inch by 6 inch metal block that employs three spinning wheels to perform a variety of tricks. Even more unsettling, though (and more impressive), are Cubli’s preternatural powers of balance. The stabilization comes courtesy of the precise choreography of the internal spinning wheels–a system the researchers point out is similar to the one that keeps satellites oriented in space.