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Simon Surtees put me onto this fun little application which creates s summarized graphic of how the web sees you, as picked by all online traffic. While it obviously includes all namesakes, it does go some way to illustrating your online presence.

With this in mind I wonder if I revisit this in a few months, after my blog has been up running a while, whether I can influence any change?

Why not visit the Personas website and try your name, it even works with company names too.

Nice example of a Facebook mashup, Friend Wheel is a simple Facebook application that creates a radial graph out of all your Facebook friends. It creates a lovely info-graphic, here’s my Friend Wheel:

Get your own Friend Wheel

Øyvind Skinnes Turbobeetle ran a 9.03 1/4 mile at this weekend’s SCC drag meeting at Gardermoen raceway, Norway. This I think makes it the Worlds fastest street legal, floorpan Beetle! Quite an achievement, will we see an 8 second floor pan Bug soon? See the video on YouTube:
Worlds fastest beetle (9.03 @ 1/4 mile, 256km/t)

A wireframe is a framework which defines the basic layout, placement of content and page elements (such as navigation, header & footer) within a website

Wireframes serve a central function in the development of a website. Devoid of graphic (visual) treatment, they represent the architectural design of the website – and serve as a blueprint for graphic designers to produce visual designs (user interface), and for developers to build functionality.

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Having helped to develop the CANSO brand over 2008 i-KOS were invited to provide an initial design concept and later awarded the task of producing all the creative for the project. Web development was to be undertaken by a seperate company in the Netherlands. Once started, the scope of the project expanded to include the following:

• Helping the client write a full brief
• Creating the sitemap
• Full wireframes
• User interface design
• User journey planning
• Prototyping
• Photoshop visuals for all key pages and sections

Once signed off we provided a complete web-kit to the development team in the Netherlands, who promptly built the site.

CANSO is the global voice of ATM (air traffic management) and represents the interests of Air Navigation Services Providers worldwide, plus the companies that provide services to this industry.

White Associates, a building services engineers, came back to i-KOS to re-build their existing website. While they were happy with the current overall design, as their business had moved on a lot, this needed to be reflected in the website. Where the previous site was a quick-build to help as White Associates get started, this version of the site was to have a lot more functionality and as such required re-building in a Content Management System (CMS).

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I’ve been thinking about this subject for a few days, how we as designers are influenced. There’s a saying that goes something like;

“There’s no such thing as a new design, just a re-working of a previous idea”

By looking at current trends and then looking back, you can usually work out which era the influence has come from. Fashion is probably the biggest culprit of this cyclical nature – looking at my 8 year old daughter wearing her fluorescent leg-warmers is a prime example of this.

Now I’m not the only one currently thinking about this subeject, just this morning I receive my RSS feed from the Johnson Banks Thought for the week, where Michael Johnson has written a brilliant article Looking backwards, moving forwards. Michael Johnson is a much better wordsmith then I and gets across the point I wanted to make plus a lot more that I hadn’t thought about – well worth a read.

So what’s your companies holiday/vacation policy? Probaly X number of days, if you’re lucky you might get some extra days after a certain period of time worked. If, however, you work for Netflix, their’s is rather different: take as much as you’d like. Just make sure your work is done.
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