Designed with SCIENCE!

My pals at Mule have been straight up crushing it out of the park on their blog of late. Today’s post from Erika about design research, especially the bits about focus group and usability testing, is pure gold.

Chartwell is a typeface that does data visualization

I didn’t get it at first, I just thought it was a nice looking modern face. But it turns out the actual font itself can be used to construct pie, bar and line charts. Super clever! [via Paula Chang]

Simply insert this Javascript at the end of your page, and you too can see a constant display of #inanehashtags, this week’s terrible movie release, and random jabberings of popular culture that don’t interest you or your users in the least

—The # dickbar moves beyond an app and on to the web!

chitwoodandhobbs:

C&H daily tournament photo - The famous 1982 UNC vs. Georgetown game. Some might remember it as the game where Fred Brown inexplicably passed to the wrong team in the closing seconds. I submit that it’s the day the nation first discovered a 19-year-old freshmen named Michael Jordan. He hit the game-winning jumper and credits that shot as a major turning point in his career.

GO HEELS

However, if avoiding profanities is important to you, you would be well advised to seek out a better, less naive approach to the problem.

—Django 1.3 is dropping their naughty words list. You can still find the old list, interesting how it compares to Carlin’s big seven…

NCAA tournament streaming live to your iPad, for free

Beautiful

@MayorEmanuel and mayor-elect Emanuel, together at last

Thanks, Bank of America! I’m sure you’ll understand why I was late paying my credit card this month, since I haven’t been able to access my account all week. I appreciate your patience while I resolve this issue.

2105:

johnallsopp:

D3.js is a small, free JavaScript library for manipulating documents based on data (via d3.js)

That’s quite interesting.

This looks awesome!

The excellent Cadence & Slang is now available as a PDF

Nick Disabato’s Kickstarted book about interaction design is a steal at $25.