Designing for Other (Than Straight, White, Rich Men) – via visualisingdata.com.
(…) have the courage to depart from Design for the Default and to challenge ourselves, our advisors, our supervisors, our clients and our students to depart from Design for the Default as well. To get specific about who we design for, to invest in listening and learning about their experiences of the world and — to borrow from the spirit of disobedience at the MIT Media Lab — to completely and utterly disrupt the status quo.
Relevant: Discrimination By Design.
JuxtaposJS – Frame comparisons. Easy to make. Seamless to publish. (via visualisingdata.com).
premonish tries to predict which DOM element a user will interact with next.
This visualization shows you 24 hours of global air traffic – in just 4 seconds (via visualisingdata.com).
The Toronto Symphony Orchestra’s “listening guides” make use of symbols and morse code-like notation to aid the experience of a live performance. Via visualisingdata.com.
Plastic Garbage Islands (via visualisingdata.com).
Another Janek-inspired site (or so some people like me might argue)…
Journey to the Centre of the Earth.
Challenge: Walk around aisles until the song that is currently playing stops. Whatever aisle you’re left on is the one you have to buy items from.
Scientists Think the Speed of Light Has Slowed, and They're Trying to Prove It.
President of the Divided States of America.
Why Donald Trump is TIME's Person of the Year.
Relevant: The 289 People, Places and Things Donald Trump Has Insulted on Twitter: A Complete List.
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Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump spent most of the debate not answering the questions (via visualisingdata.com).