The Cosmonaut

I found Juan Leal’s post about Verplank’s definition on Interaction Desing very interesting, although I am no fan of definitions and compartimentations. I’ll jump to the train, however.

My favorite definition/description/whatever goes like this:

Information Architecture: how it’s structured
Interaction Design: how it behaves
Information Design/Visual Design: how it looks

These definitions are not mine and I cannot recall who wrote them first. I’d appreciate any feedback on it. I am also aware that the boudaries between concepts are not clear at all, especially between the last two. They tend to overlap a lot.

Jorge Correa (one of my favorite designers) just released a small set of super-cute weather icons free to use. This is what they look like:

They come just in time for something we have in mind at Planetaki. Thanks, Jorge!!

Remember that photoshopped image of the iranian missiles? The one where one of the four was faked (as if it made any difference). Yeah, this one:

Well, Cowicide decided he had a fever and the only prescription was… More Cowbell!!

(original location here)