At EchoUser this week, our office chat was buzzing with news about airlines, movies, and … breakups? Yup. Join the conversation by checking out some of these links:
Visual.ly dazzles the eyes with 20 great visualizations from 2011, from the serious to the outright silly.
Oh hi, pretty new Jet Blue redesign. It’s slick and a little Apple-y, no?
After its Qwikster stumble, Netflix is rebounding with a move into original programming. Fast Company’s Co.Create sat down with Netflix’s head of content to learn more about how that’s going to work.
We most certainly hope you’re not staring down a weekend full of bad dates … but if you are, Wot Went Wrong wants to help you give and get good feedback on why that coffee meeting didn’t turn into anything more. Wah-waaaahhhh.
Happy Friday! Team EchoUser is heading to a happy hour this evening, but first, let’s toast to some of the fine links we passed around the office this week.
If only we were in New York, we would have loved to see this talk on how “digital forensics” — aka, rescuing old drafts and archived versions of documents — uncovered some of the many changes to what ultimately became the musical RENT.
A 5-year-old analyzes logos. Spoiler alert: apparently a lot of companies are cheetahs.
Still trying to figure out what Pinterest is all about? We gawked at this infographic that spells out some key facts about the “social pinboard” in a pretty way.
On those slickly designed corporate “visions of the future” videos — why they capture our imagination with glitzy production, why they get so much traction, and what they’re missing (e.g., depth; informed projections of the future).
We’ve got a nickname-filled office to begin with, but things really picked up this week when we spotted this chart of blues names making its way around the internet. The EchoUser Experience will now be known as Texas Chicken Green.
A smattering of EchoUser office reactions to this plush desk nap pod:
“How do you breathe?
“It looks cozy … until you suffocate”
“It’s an ostrich-bag-thingy.”
“It’s a fuzzy deep-sea-diving helmet.”
This color-matching game is just as addictive (if not more so) than the kerning game from the same folks that we loved a while back — but it feels much more stressful!
Fine, fine, it’s not all fun and games around here. We learned a lot this week from this Uday Gajendar presentation on how to partner with a UI designer.
