Se pensate che al mondo nessuno si metterebbe mai a studiare, dal punto di vista geometrico, le forme dei vari tipi di pasta, beh, vi sbagliate. Pasta by design, di George L. Legendre, tratta esattamente questo argomento:

An in-depth investigation of a beloved food, a celebration of the complexity of simple pleasures, and a delight for everyone who eats pasta.

Everyone loves pasta, but despite myriad cookbooks no one has ever seen the world’s favorite food presented like this. Created by a team of obsessive designers, this unique book reveals the hidden mathematical beauty that cooks across the globe have taken for granted since Marco Polo.

Sul NYTimes, una galleria di immagini estratte dal volume.

A few weeks back, I wrote about how changing a button increased a major e-commerce site’s revenue by $300 million dollars.
The article quickly became one of the most popular articles we’ve ever published. People love the fact that a small design change could be linked to a huge increase in revenues. It’s the ultimate ROI story.
Yet in our research at User Interface Engineering, we see these kinds of increases all the time. And $300 million isn’t anywhere close to the biggest.
In today’s article, The Magic Behind Amazon’s 2.7 Billion Dollar Question, I talk about a design element whose income contribution is possibly 10 times larger. It’s a simple question on the Amazon site – one you’ve probably seen a thousand times – yet it is critical to the success of the business.

Da leggere.

Whatever the best part of Flickr is for you, your new home page now surfaces much more of the action going on around you on Flickr. More of the amazing photos, groups, and interesting tidbits that show up on Flickr every day. And while we were at it, we made it easier for you to turn down the volume on things you don’t want to see, or just find some help.

La nuova homepage, che diventerà standard tra qualche settimana, può essere attivata cliccando sul messaggio che compare in fondo alla homepage attuale (Psssssst! Want a sneak peek at your new home page?).