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Posted by courtney on July 16th, 2010

This is the first entry in a semi-regular series sharing things that we’ve been looking at and reading recently …

Sarah (one of our project managers)

  • Broadband becomes a legal right in Finland
  • Guggenheim collaborates with YouTube and invites video submissions

Sue (one of our designers, recently returned from a break in the sunny northern hemisphere)

  • Eye-candy and inspiration on www.citid.net
  • Great experimental fonts (also: free!)
  • Lighten up your winter blues: heaps of colour and shapes on Coolhunter

Alastair (one of our developers)

  • Firefox 4 introduces more HTML 5 and CSS functionality. One step further towards the death of Flash? Still in beta so one for the developers.
  • Excellent! Wayne and Garth spotted in the UK. Party on!

Rachel (our office manager)

  • Artist creates masterpiece on an iPad
  • World Cup 2010 statistics: all the key data for each team, from the Guardian

(Rachel notes that she’s not as much of a sports fiend as the above link might suggest, and also recommends data/infographic blog Cool Infographics)

Jake (who looks after our usability testing tool IntuitionHQ)

  • David Gillis on Fusing Content Strategy with Design, in UX Magazine
  • The Real Life Social Network, slides from a presentation by Paul Adams, Senior User Experience Researcher at Google
  • Gnarcade – Video Game Invasion: for video game fans, and geeks in general

Courtney (that’s me – project manager)

  • Aaron Straup Cope’s magical slippy map showing the world as revealed by geo-tagged photos on Flickr
  • Significant Objects, an investigation of art and the market through short stories and eBay
  • Swallows and Amazons, the current exhibition at Robert Heald Gallery, which is close to our office – on show until 31 July.
Tags: inspiration, research

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