vrijdag 21 december 2007

CHOOSE YOUR CELEB


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dinsdag 18 december 2007

WikiMindMap - Wiki Visualization

WikiMindMap is a tool to browse easily and efficiently in Wiki content, inspired by the mindmap technique. Wiki pages in large public wiki's, such as wikipedia, have become rich and complex documents. Thus, it is not allways straight forward to find the information you are really looking for. This tool aims to support users to get a good structured and easy understandable overview of the topic you are looking for. The browser is a modified version of the GNU GPL licenced Flash browser for FreeMind. All content of the mindmap is derived from the wiki which was selected and is available under the terms of GNU Free Documentaion Licence. Any other content and the conceptual idea of this website belong to the author.


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TOUCHGRAPH


TouchGraph was founded in 2001 with the creation of the original visual browser for Google. Since then, millions of people have used TouchGraph's tools to discover the relationships contained in Google, Amazon, Wikis, and other popular information sources. Our commercial applications include solutions for companies in management consulting, social networking, and mass media.


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XPLANE - VISUAL THINKING COMPANY



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CHART CHOOSER

Use the filters to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your data.


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FREEMIND 0.9.0 : OPEN SOURCE MINDMAP SOFTWARE




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zaterdag 15 december 2007

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A DESIGNER


Irene Pereyra & Tom Klinkowstein recently presented their "day in the life of a networked designer's smart things or a day in a designer's networked smart things, 2030" at the Pratt Institute. The project was made for the Singapore Design Festival and deals with an imagined designer's day, anno 2030. Irene & Tom created a diary like wall-sized map (pdf) taking the viewer on a day's journey through the life of a designer as if sitting on her shoulder and reading the world through her mind's eye. A smart-tech-infused future comes to life through the experience of the designer via a fascinating, diverse yet integrated storyline.

VISUAL THESAURUS



This application began life as a web-based tool in 1998. Since then, Plumb Design (www.visualthesaurus.com) updated it, and released it as a stand alone product earlier this year. Visual Thesaurus, as its name indicates, provides you with a graphical way to find words, their meanings, and their synonyms. It uses the WordNet database provided by the Cognitive Science Laboratory at Princeton University (www.cogsci.princeton.edu/~wn/). It handles English language words only.

It is, if nothing else, a unique approach to looking up words. While moving over to another program in order to look up a word is less than ideal, having to move over to this program may make it not quite so hard to deal with. Can you find the synonym to that word to need to make deadline? Sure, although because of the graphical nature of the presentation, it may be more difficult than usual to find exactly what you are looking for. That doesn't necessarily seem to be the point of this program, however. I found myself just exploring related links to words that jumped out at me. It became a fun sort of game to follow along a random selection path to find out what would pop up next.



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BLUE BRAIN PROJECT



The Blue Brain project is the first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, in order to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations.

In July 2005, EPFL and IBM announced an exciting new research initiative - a project to create a biologically accurate, functional model of the brain using IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer. Analogous in scope to the Genome Project, the Blue Brain will provide a huge leap in our understanding of brain function and dysfunction and help us explore solutions to intractable problems in mental health and neurological disease.

At the end of 2006, the Blue Brain project had created a model of the basic functional unit of the brain, the neocortical column. At the push of a button, the model could reconstruct biologically accurate neurons based on detailed experimental data, and automatically connect them in a biological manner, a task that involves positioning around 30 million synapses in precise 3D locations.



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vrijdag 14 december 2007

DUELITY - CREATIONISM


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donderdag 13 december 2007

leaders in webdesign











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CAMBRIDGE INSTITUTE FOR MANUFACTURING

Summary of Tools and Techniques. The tools listed below are organised according to the Key Design Activities of the Design Maturity Model. Some may be familiar under these or similar names. Others, such as 'Process on a page' have been developed during the GDP project in response to company needs. The key goals of many of these design tools are to:

- bring together opinions, experiences and perspectives from around the business and support teamwork
- encourage a customer focus and customer involvement
- promote creativity and divergence when developing alternatives
- encourage decision making based on information rather than prejudice or gut-feel

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YODM 3D AND FLIP 3D


DeskSpace dramatically enhances your desktop experience, allowing you to:

- Work and play on multiple desktops.
- Display multiple desktops in stunning 3D.
- Quickly switch between desktops using the mouse and keyboard.
- Drag windows between desktops by moving them to the sides of the screen.
- Display desktops in 3D on multiple monitors.
- Configure the hot keys and mouse buttons used to switch between desktops, and how DeskSpace displays and manages desktop.
- Use DeskSpace in multiple languages.

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RIGHT BRAIN VS. LEFT BRAIN CREATIVITY TEST

Being creative or artistic doesn’t mean you know how to draw or play an instrument. Being creative is a way of thinking, a way of viewing the world.

Test is placed on the Vancouver Art School Website.

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maandag 10 december 2007

FOUR TEMPERAMENTS VS MBTY



David Keirsey and Marilyn Bates discovered that the needs of the sixteen Myers-Briggs personality types could be organized into four temperaments, a notion that goes back to ancient Greece.

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interessante link
bvb voor de random knop die hier rechts bovenaan staat.

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Tiltimo


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In deze applicatie worden al tags aan beelden gehangen.
kleur, textuur is een mogelijkheid, sfeer is een andere.
verassing is hier een stuk belangrijker dan hèt verwachte resultaat.



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zaterdag 8 december 2007

iTunes mood tagging with Moody

Moody is a free color-based tagging tool for iTunes that allows you to organize all your tracks by mood. From sad to happy and calm to intense, you can efficiently tag your whole jam collection for mood-appropriate playlists. Whether it's working weekends or pay day, you can rest assured that the soundtrack to your life/mood swing is waiting.


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INTERACTIVE PLUSH TOYS DESIGN FOR DUMMIES

This really neat system, created by Yuki Mori and Takeo Igarashi from The University of Tokyo, allows nonprofessionals (even those who are not able to draw "appropriately" a 2D pattern) to design their own original plush toys. Plushie constructs 2D patterns and applies simple physical simulation to it on the fly during 3D modeling. The model on the screen is thus always a good approximation of the final sewn result, which makes the design process much more efficient.


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woensdag 5 december 2007

7 IDEAS - 7 X ANDERS BEELDEN ZOEKEN

Om de 7 dagen een overzicht van 7 inspiratiebronnen, ideeën, filmpjes, innovatielinks, beelden, quotes, vragen, triggers ... om uw creatief en innovatief vermogen te prikkelen.


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dinsdag 4 december 2007

VISUALCOMPLEXITY

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of disciplines, as diverse as Biology, Social Networks or the World Wide Web.


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zondag 2 december 2007

DAN KELDSEN, MAPS - CONCEPTS - PROCESS


Tools for knowledge and innovation.

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vrijdag 30 november 2007

H5 - Motion Graphics


Videoclip : Royksopp - Remind Me




Reclame : Areva

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profieltest: test om een test op te maken

Wil iedereen eens uitvoeren en de resultaten in reactie posten aub?


Je zal snel zien dat de ene keer je zo'n profiel krijgt, als je de test op een ander moment uitvoert, krijg je een ander resultaat. Dit bewijst perfect de context-afhankelijkheid van persoonsprofielen.
Daarmee ook constant variërende connotaties tov beelden (als we expliciet visueel willen gaan werken) en variërende links met technieken... Alhoewel de percentage macth wel een indicatie geeft van de mogelijke foutmarges.

aircraft graphics + motion animation

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Animation made entirely from standard logos in airports.

BUMPTOP PROTOTYPE

See http://BumpTop.com for more information. BumpTop aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

donderdag 29 november 2007

Hans Rosling TEDTalks : No more boring data

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KEYWORDS INTERFACE

CLEAR

- Avoid language
- Make use universal icons / pictures
- Make use of new media (movie/podcasts/…)

INTUITIVE

- Random vs systematic
- Inspiration
- Cross fertilization

PLAYFUL

- Entertainment and leasure dimension.
- Competition between players
- Goals, rules, challenge, and interactivity

Periodic table of visualization methods

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woensdag 28 november 2007

DE 10 GEBODEN

  1. Drempelverlagend programma voor KMO’s om creativiteitstechnieken te blijven gebruiken
  2. Abstaheren (van problemen) (+) & concretiseren ( naar oplossingen) (-)
  3. Zowel voor sessie organisators (= facilitators) als voor individuen
  4. Creativiteit stimuleren binnen dagdagelijkse bedrijfsbezigheden
  5. Tips & tricks voor facilitators & individuen bevatten
  6. Zeer visueel werken, het weinige taalgebruik is NE
  7. Naast de flow ook een overzicht kunnen geven (van creativiteitstechnieken)
  8. Ervaringen (cases) als illustratie (schoolvoorbeelden) gebruiken
  9. Zorgen dat de gebruiker geïnspireerd wordt
  10. Historiek van projecten kunnen bijhouden, opbouwend kunnen werken (documenteren)

dinsdag 27 november 2007

MBTI voor teamrollen


http://123management.nl/0/040_mensen/a400_mensen_14_teamrol_mbti.html

hoe een team samen te stellen en of deze samenstelling ook context afhankelijk is, daar kan iemand als Frans van Gassel misschien een inzicht in geven.

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Tiltviewer vs Imagini personality test

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donderdag 22 november 2007

Overzicht creativiteits technieken


http://www.lifehack.org/articles/lifehack/essential-resources-for-creativity-163-techniques-30-tips-books.html