You’ll find a lot of literature and best practices when searching for answers on what goes beneath the fold of your website, so Google came to the rescue and just released the Google Browser Size, a visualization of browser window sizes for people who visit Google, which you can customize to see how does this measurements fit you own website, pretty much as I did for the above screenshot.
Thankfully I’m working on the redesign of my own website for a couple of days otherwise much of what goes in here would go unnoticed
It’s not pretty, and certainly not for the fainted hearted…
But I can’t be nothing but amazed at this visualization project.
Some years ago it was the ‘Visible Human Project‘ that both socked us, but also amazed us and help us see and learn a whole lot about the contents of our bodies, today I came across The Virtual Autopsy Table, an interactive installation, where users can freely interact with stunning volumetric 3D datasets acquired via start of the art medical imaging technics of real scanned human bodies. The result is simply amazing:
Seeing this today at XKCD reminded me of Steve Johnson book ‘Everything Bad is Good for You‘ and how we’re coping with more and more intricate narratives, involving multiple characters and distinct timelines… and the reason why that implies a change in the way our brains have been changing and the resulting effects upon society as whole..
On November 19th, the EU governments will meet in Malmo to sign a Ministerial Declaration that will define the key priorities for e-government strategy in Europe for the next years.
A group of Web 2.0 enthusiasts launched an open collaborative effort to build an Open Declaration on European Public Services, which calls on European governments to embrace the values of transparency, participation and empowerment and so improve public services. The European Commission and the Swedish Presidency of the EU have accepted that we present the declaration in the official program of the Ministerial Conference.
We now need to collect thousands of endorsements in order to convince governments to fully embrace these values.
If you share the values of the Open Declaration, please add your name in this form. Together we can make a difference!
If you agree, you may sign it and then join the Facebook Group to start spreading the word.
National Geographic has compiled a stunningly rich visualization of the past 50 years space explorations, resulting in an interactive map showing us information about all solar, lunar and interplanetary missions that took place during this last half century:
Art by Sean McNaughton, National Geographic Staff and Samuel Velasco, 5W Infographics.
I'm Pedro Custódio, a User Experience Advocate with a strong software architecture background, sometimes I train and speak others in the arts of both. I'm currently main organizer of SHiFT and working on the Vodafone 360 project.
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I'm Pedro Custódio, a User Experience Advocate with a strong software architecture background, sometimes I train and speak others in the arts of both. I'm currently main organizer of 
