冬天来了，雪都下了，戴上围脖了。

最近简单画了个微博概念图，以后继续发散。

Smashing Magazine最近对50大流行网站做了一次关于排版设计样式的详细研究，虽然得出的只是一种统计结果，并不算真正严谨的科学研究，但对于网站设计者而言，也可以把它们当做一个参考的标准。英文原文详细报告在此，翻译过来一些主要结论如下：

1. Serif或者sans-serif字体都同时适用于正文和标题,比较而言，sans-serif字体在正文和标题中更常见.
2. Georgia, Arial和Helvetica常用于标题
3. Georgia, Arial, Verdana和Lucida Grande常用于正文
4. 最常见的标题字体大小在18和29pixels之间
5. 最常见的征文字体大小在12和14pixels之间
6. 标题和正文字体大小之比为1.96
7. 正文行高与正文字体大小之比为1.48
8. 行宽与行高之比为27.8
9. 段落间距与行高之比为0.754
10. 每行最佳字符数在55和75之间, 但每行75-85个字符更常见
11. 正文都是左对齐，很少使用图片替代（image replacement），链接不是加下划线就是加粗或者以颜色高亮

当然设计师都是希望自己的网站和别人的看上去有所不同，但遵循一些基本的业已成型的共识，可以让你的网站对你的用户更友好，减少其适应期。当然这里谈到的只是面对大众用户的公众网站，很多个人网站则完全可以不按常理出牌。

The best video I’ve seen this month. “Hi,” created for design and technology event, Multitouch Barcelona. Filmed at hangar, and music by Lullatone. The concept is just well-thoughout, original, and a joy to watch on video.

信息来源：scene360

If you think you’ve seen what’s possible with Photosynth, then you’ve seen nothing yet. The collaborative research team from the University of Washington and Microsoft Research who only two years ago in 2006 published their paper “Photo Tourism” and their technology demonstration “Photosynth” have again pushed the boundaries of what can be achieved by intuitively processing the abundance of digital images shared on the web.

This week at SIGGRAPH 2008 they’re sharing with the world some even better technology they’ve been working on which they call “Finding Paths through the World’s Photos“. Don’t let the name fool you, it’s damn cool. If you’re not much of a reading person like me, take a look at this video demonstration. (Watch it till the end)

This technology is much better than Photosynth simply because instead of just presenting individual photographs in a cool 3D environment, it actually manipulates the photo to give you a seamless and more lifelike experience. It’s one thing to click around different photos taken at a particular museum, it’s a whole other story to “walk through” the museum.

Now if you want to know exactly how they did it, and you’re a rocket scientist, take a look at their conference paper. For the rest of us, just take it for granted.