And I thought New York commute sucks

Jul 1, 2010 · 
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Travel · 
By Vu Nguyen

Well, it kind of does, but def­i­nitely not the worst.

A few words about the index:

Number-crunchers at IBM Research sur­veyed 8,192 motorists in 20 cities, and — no sur­prise — most of them think traf­fic has only grown worse dur­ing the past three years. More than half said grid­lock has wreaked havoc on their phys­i­cal or men­tal health. One-third said it is under­cut­ting their pro­duc­tiv­ity at work or school…

…IBM used the results to com­pile a “Commuter Pain Index,” which ranks the emo­tional and eco­nomic toll of com­mut­ing. The index is a mea­sure of 10 cri­te­ria, from the amount of time spent sit­ting in traf­fic to the fre­quency with which peo­ple sim­ply gave up and went home.

via Wired

How wild is North America

Jun 29, 2010 · 
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Infographics · 
By Vu Nguyen

From The Big Wild:

Infographics really come in handy when you want to high­light fun facts and empir­i­cal evi­dence as it relates to scale and impact.

The Big Wild info­graphic fea­tures bio­di­ver­sity in North America and com­pares Canada to the United States and Mexico.

via Cool Infographics

Msnbc.com new mobile site: design for modularity

Jun 29, 2010 · 
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Awards winners, Design, msnbc.com, Portfolio · 
By Vu Nguyen

msnbc new mobile front
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Last year I went offline for a few months to work on a cou­ple of per­sonal projects and an iPhone app for msnbc.com. About a year later and after the iPhone project fell through, I was asked to design a new msnbc.com mobile ver­sion. The tar­get audi­ence is peo­ple who own devices that have Webkit-based browsers such as iPhone and Google Android phones. The project was a huge under­tak­ing for me due to the com­plex­ity of our busi­ness and the audi­ence size that this project would impact. Given that most other large news orga­ni­za­tions have released their web­sites for these devices, we wanted to chal­lenge our­selves to do some­thing better.

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And here is the new story page from msnbc.com

Jun 28, 2010 · 
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Design, msnbc.com · 
By Vu Nguyen

A few words from Ashley Wells, our Creative Director:

So we’ve stacked up the pieces with the most com­pelling con­tent on top. Start with a video. Scroll down to read. Want more? Show more. Long text sim­ply expands in place. Then scroll down for pho­tos. Lots of large pho­tos. Share your favorite. Via e-mail. On Facebook. On Twitter. Continue down the page. See what oth­ers are say­ing. Expand. Respond.

Keep going. We post thou­sands of updates a day and are con­stantly search­ing them for related angles. It’s all right there near the bot­tom of every story. Want the big­ger pic­ture? There’s a dash­board view of the lat­est news trends below. Or jump back to the top of the page. Our site nav­i­ga­tion gets big­ger, too. Just when you need it.

Read the rest of the arti­cle here

Star Wars infographics from Charles Apple

Jun 25, 2010 · 
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Infographics · 
By Vu Nguyen

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From Charles’ post:

The graph­ics ran this week in the Times of Huntsville, Ala., as a walk-up to the open­ing of a big Star Wars sci­ence exhibit at the NASA cen­ter there. Editor Kevin Wendt and design direc­tor Paul Wallen engaged me to research, write and design the graph­ics, with the aid of Times staff writ­ers Lee Roop and Kenneth Kesnet, who inter­viewed NASA sci­en­tists and other Huntsville-area tech­no­log­i­cal brains. The quotes they brought back formed the meat of our graphic cen­ter­piece each day.

And a few words about the author:

Charles Apple is a free­lance visual jour­nal­ist and instruc­tor. A long time news artist and designer, he is the for­mer graph­ics direc­tor of the Virginian-Pilot and the Des Moines Register. He teaches design and graph­ics work­shops and sem­i­nars and spends way too much time online.

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