As we roll into the weekend, here’s a quick round-up of the articles, discoveries, and internet ephemera that have been circling around the EchoUser office this week.
Metamemory and the User Experience — There’s evidence that we now consider the internet part of our external memory, the set of places we turn when we need to recall information we can’t keep in our brains day-to-day. UX Magazine wonders what that means for successful websites. How can designers use principles of human memory to better construct the resources we call upon to retrieve knowledge?
Old S.F. — Speaking of memory, this site overlays photos from the San Francisco Public Library’s Historical Photograph Collection with a Google Maps rendering of the city, revealing how San Francisco has changed between 1850 and today. Amazing to see horse-drawn wagons making their way down the streets surrounding EchoUser’s offices!
You’ve Been Bieber-ed! — What would you do if your co-worker photoshopped Justin Bieber’s face onto your entire stock photo collection?
Bathroom Blogfest — We’re intrigued by the Bathroom Blogfest, coming later this month, in which bloggers from around the web will write about the importance of bathrooms in the customer experience. Past posts have revealed the icon on the Pixar bathrooms and the aspirational nature of bathrooms around the world. We know inspiration tends to strike in the oddest places, so tell us: What restroom-related epiphanies have you had lately?
And finally: Think you’re a master of beautiful type? Play this shockingly addictive kerning game!
Love it – awesome recap for those of us who’ve been slightly absent from the group Skype chat room 
[...] 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 [...]
