Jan Dibbets, Shortest Day
Found via jours
Brilliant! The camera that thinks, so you don’t have to.
Instead of showing you the last photo you took, the Nadia Camera displays your photo’s aesthetic rating!
It uses ACQUINE technology, which calculates the play of light, contrast, and other measurements in your photo….! See it in action by clicking on the photo.
Inneresting!
morrowplanet asked
Your birthday, too, right? Happy birthday!
Happy Birthday to us!
How To Measure Anything, Even Intangibles - The Quantified Self
Some things are easy to measure. Time, money, exercise, calories, location - all of these are relatively straightforward to repeatably determine or calculate.
But how does one go about measuring happiness? What about compassion, or public influence, or creativity? These are more intangible, harder to pin down to a number that means anything.
Douglas Hubbard has written an impressive work called “How To Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business.” The full PDF is available for free here.
A Dad’s Perspective
(via powersof10)
The Ideal (Junior) Industrial Designer | Michael Roller
Being a great industrial designer requires a nuanced balance of many important skills and personality traits, but which matter the most?
A few weeks ago, I initiated a project with the goal of uncovering information about how industrial designers process and evaluate the complex, nuanced combination of skills and traits that are thrown at them every time they look at a portfolio or meet someone for an interview. I sent out surveys to senior designers to get feedback that would help students and young designers understand where to focus their energy. After receiving 100 responses, I’m happy to say that this document confirms some things intuitively believed and also uncovers some interesting surprises. How important is good sketching relative to a good personality? As it turns out, they’re neck and neck.
Even though this document uses scores and percentages to organize the information, it’s important to remember that the study is still largely qualitative. With that in mind, I hope you’ll leave your comments and help me start a constructive discussion on what’s important to the young designers for which this project was created.
A PDF with full breakdowns of all questions and answers is also available here.
Discuss: Why collect data about yourself?
Nathan Yau asks what the purpose of data collection for individuals is - betterment of self, insights into behavior, curiosity, etc. Check out the comments for readers’ responses.
HTML5 Readiness →
A gorgeous CSS infographic that shows which web-features are ready for implementation today, and in what browsers, compared to 2009 and 2008.
Found via @bryanconnor
