Our favorite spots for Experience Design, links to Our Friends, and just plain Cool Sites. Enjoy!
Experience Design
Nathan: Experience Design
Nathan Shedroff's website has lots of good thought-leadership regarding Experience Design. Don't miss his collection of links to locations around the world that exemplify great Experience Design: <http://www.nathan.com/ed/locations/index.html>.
Mark Hurst's This Is Broken:
<http://goodexperience.com/tib/>.
Bad customer experience in charming mini-rants. [Note: This Is Broken is now part of the Good Experience Blog, listed below.]
Oh, yeah, he talks about good experiences, too (at <http://www.goodexperience.com/blog/>, but that's not quite as much fun, is it?
Friends of VisionPoints
Panorama Motel:
<http://www.panoramamotelny.com/>.
The best place to stay in the Green Mountains. Right on the Vermont border in gorgeous Hampton, NY. Tell them that VisionPoints sent you and they'll treat you right... don't tell them we sent you, and they'll still treat you right. It's how they do things.
Mothering magazine:
The website of the print magazine of the same name focuses on natural family living and activism for children.
Cool Sites
The Fischbowl: Did You Know?:
<http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2006/08/did-you-know.html>.
Watch Karl Fisch's fairly brief presentation (links to various formats are in the first couple of paragraphs) and expand your mind. You may laugh, you might tear up. You will get an unexpected, striking lesson on how to put together the best darn PowerPoint ever. This is inspired.
Killian & Company Advertising's Cover Letters from H*** : <http://www.killianadvertising.com/coverletters.html>.
Every page of Bob Killian's well-written site is brilliant, and we have read them all. For pure fun, and a spoonful of sugar with your lessons, it's hard to beat this gem.
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading:
“Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers,” says their home page. Believe me, you can get lost in these great video clips for a long, long time. (And come out the better for it!)
Leo Burnett Advertising:
<http://www.leoburnett.ca/FLASH/>.
Warning: Your computer must be able to handle this site, which would normally make it bad Experience Design in our book. However, if Flash sites don't scare you away, this a real tour de force. Brilliant web design for themselves (that we don't recommend to our clients), brilliant work for others.
Leslie Cabarga's Flashfonts: Logo Design page:
<http://www.flashfonts.com/flashsite/logopage.htm>.
[Flash warning here again.]
Daniel Pelavin: Typographic Design, Lettering, Icons, and Illustration:
Tom Nikosey Design and Illustration:
Browse through the breathtaking typographic design portfolios of Cabarga, Pelavin, and Nikosey. Not every firm needs solutions this specialized, but when it's used, boy, is it unforgettable.
