AN INTRODUCTION INTO INFORMATION DESIGN

Visualizing Information: An Introduction to Information Design is a booklet John Emerson wrote and designed to introduce advocacy organizations to basic principles and techniques of information design. It’s full of examples of interesting design from groups around the world in a variety of media and forms. It has tips, excercises, and even recommended Free Software packages to help polish up your graphics.

John Emerson, worked with the Tacitcal Tech collective who provided editorial feedback and helped track down reproduction rights for the images. They’re also coordinating printing and distribution to NGOs. The project was funded by the OSI Information Program. The booklet is Creative Commons licensed.

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WORDNET - PRINCETON

WordNet® is a large lexical database of English, developed under the direction of George A. Miller. Nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs are grouped into sets of cognitive synonyms (synsets), each expressing a distinct concept. Synsets are interlinked by means of conceptual-semantic and lexical relations. The resulting network of meaningfully related words and concepts can be navigated with the browser. WordNet is also freely and publicly available for download. WordNet's structure makes it a useful tool for computational linguistics and natural language processing.

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BUBBLE.US - MINDMAP

What is it?

Bubbl.us is a simple and free web application that lets you brainstorm online.
Why use bubbl.us?

Because you can:

* Create colorful mind maps online
* Share and work with friends
* Embed your mind map in your blog or website
* Email and print your mind map
* Save your mind map as an image

TRENDWATCHING.COM - NEWSLETTERS

Trendwatching.com and its 8,000+ trend spotters scan the globe for emerging consumer trends.
We report on our findings in free, monthly Trend Briefings, covering trends like INFOLUST, TWINSUMERS, and CUSTOMER-MADE. The current edition highlights the EXPECTATION ECONOMY.

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SECRETS OF SUCCES - RICHARD ST. JOHN

Why do people succeed? An unmissable 3-min. talk from the TED Conference on the real secrets of success

IMPROVING INTERFACE DESIGN

IDEATION USING INTERACTIVE SURFACE

IntuiLab, involved in several projects about surface interactions, explores collaborative ideation techniques using an interactive surface.
This application has been designed using IntuiLab's UI development platform IntuiKit.

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MAPPING A TALKSHOW - CATALOGTREE

Mapping a talkshow with Aaron Koblin, Wilfried Houjebek and Catalogtree
on 03-09-2007 as part of the Info Aesthetics Symposium organized by LUST, The Hague, NL. In collaboration with Lutz Issler (Processing).

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10 LESSONS OF INNOVATION - IDRIS MOOTEE

TECHNOLOGY TIMELINE - BT

BT Reveals Insight into the Future
In the future we could be holidaying in space while robots tend our gardens back home - according to BT's latest technology timeline...

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Random words associative generator

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37 ways ... to innovate - new shoes today

37 ways is een nieuwe reeks van checklists en inspiratiebronnen voor productideeën of productverbetering. Succesvolle innovaties werden op een rij gezet en gelinkt aan onderliggende trends, principes of evoluties.
37 ways is zowel bruikbaar in individuele als groepsbrainstorm. Je kan de 37 ways systematisch doorlopen of je at random laten inspireren.
37 ways is een product in ontwikkeling. Online vind je altijd de laatste versie. Suggesties altijd welkom.
37 ways verschijnt op verzoek ook voor diensten en overheidsinnovaties. Tevens zijn er sets bestelbaar rond diverse sectoren: financial, marketing, food, green innovations.

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GENOMETRI - GENERATIVE DESIGN

Plants have genes, Animals have genes. Have you ever wondered if products have them? If products have genes, then the methods of design in nature may be applied to products. Genometri is a Singapore based design technology company that just does that. It has developed a generative design technology that allows designers to create 1000's of design variations based on their original design. It is able to explore a huge range of possibilities that is not possible other wise. Texture and color may also be explored. This technology gives designer unprecedented power of exploration creating variations that are significantly distinctive.

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AVIVA INFO ABOUT COLORS

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IMAGE ANNOTATION - MIT

Currently computers have difficult recognizing objects in images. While practical solutions exist for a few simple classes such as human faces or cars, the more general problem of recognizing all different classes of objects in the world (e.g. guitars, bottles, telephones) remains unsolved. Computer Vision researchers are currently investigating methods that can recognize and localize thousands of different object categories in complex scenes. A key component of these algorithms is the data used to train the computers' model of each object. Current approaches use collections of images laboriously gathered by hand. Our research explores how the billions of images available on the Internet can be used to train models for object recognition. With overwhelming amounts of data, many problems can be tackled with simple algorithms. We gathered from the web 79 million images. We are using this massive dataset to train a computer to recognize objects within an image and to understand the scenes depicted in photographs.

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CREATIVITY TEST - CREAX

The CREAX creativity test measures your creativity in 8 different areas and visualizes how you score compared to the others that took the test. Profiling your creativity, the CREAX Creativity Self-assessment test offers a profile of your level of creativity in eight areas and your personal score is compared with the global average score.

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eight intelligences

The Question is NOT,
"How smart am I?"
It's rather
HOW am I smart?

In 1985 the noted Harvard psychologist and educator Howard Gardner, proposed the theory of multiple intelligences based on several years of research investigating how we come to know what we know about our world. How do we learn, process, and understand information? What is the process by which we acquire knowledge? In a nutshell, “What makes us smart? What makes us intelligent?”

In this research, Gardner discovered that each of us possesses at least eight distinct areas of intelligence, eight ways we acquire knowledge, process information, learn and understand – way beyond the traditional IQ, which gives credit for only two, at best.

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PRODUCTION NAVIGATOR - TWENTE UNIVERSITY

ProductionNavigator is a new website that designers and engineers can use as a reference in the process of selecting production-techniques and their suppliers.

The selection online is a database that contains a large number of productiontechnique specifications. Productiontechniques are filtered from the database by entering a number of selection criteria. The more criteria are entered, the shorter the production-technique-list. Subsequently, information regarding suitable productiontechniques can be retrieved and productiontechniques from the same group can be compared with the specific criteria for that group.
(plastic shaping, composite shaping, machining etc.)

* The selection online can prevent that non-suitable productiontechniques are selected.

* Futhermore the selecion online can prevent that other –more- suitable productiontechniques are overlooked.

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MATERIAL EXPLORER - MATERIA

Materia is a knowledge centre for developments and innovations in materials, and their applications for architecture and design. With our Material Explorer we can offer you an advanced, user-friendly way of accessing the largest free materials knowledge base. There are no subscription fees or extra costs.

- search by keyword
- search by material group
- search by sensorial qualities
- search by technical qualities
- find manufacturers
- manage your favorite materials
- print your results in A4 format
- download material sheets supplied by manufacturers

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MORE INSPIRATION - CREAX

Innovations to inspire your thinking. MoreInspiration lets you discover innovative products and technologies from all possible domains.

Start page
Discover new inspiration that has been added to the site or submit an innovation you have spotted on the web!

Details on innovations
Get more information about what has changed and why it has been changed. Discuss it with your collegues or mail it to your friends.

Advanced search
Search for inspiration both inside and outside your own industry. See how and why innovations have come to be by using the Properties and the Functions.

Results
Use the clusters that have been defined to explore in detail or store and receive the results of the search on a regular basis by mail by using the alerting functionality

Favorites
Keep track of all items that inspire you and store them in one place.

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