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Author Archives: Marci

My name is Marci Ikeler. I live in New York City where I work as an user experience designer. What that means: I talk to business stakeholders and users to find out what their needs and goals are, design how the web site/ application will look and function, and document all business logic and technical requirements. As you might guess, I'm a pretty big computer nerd (and nerd in general). My interests are: reading, music, philosophy, painting, graphics, computers, coffee, chocolate, and red wine. I have a Nintendo GameCube , and Xbox, and an iPod. I use Macintosh computers. I subscribe to The New Yorker, Maxim, Stuff, FHM, and Blender, all of which I read religiously. I live in a relatively spacious (by New York standards) apartment on Saint Marks Place, in the East Village. I graduated from NYU in 2001, but I don't think I learned much. I'm originally from Phoenix, Arizona, although I've been a New Yorker in training since 1999.

Abandoned Amusement Park Photos

Abandoned Amusement Park Photos

Abandoned amusement Park
Gorgeous photos of an abandoned amusement park on Flickr. 

Via Kottke.org.

Social Networking Will Become Ubiquitous

Social Networking Will Become Ubiquitous

Excellent article from Logic + Emotion about the role of social networking online. I completely agree that social features are best suited to be supplementary to a site’s primary purpose, as opposed to being stand-alone apps. 

Steve-O Goes to Rehab

Steve-O Goes to Rehab

I have never been a fan of Jackass or any of the dudes on it, but this letter from Steve-O on why he is now in rehab is absolutely heartbreaking (and surprisingly well-written). An excerpt:

All you fucking things [drugs] are good for is dying. I’m not
ready to die. I’m ready to live. I’m ready to breathe (properly, even). I’m ready to fall in love. I’m ready to become ready to start a family. I’m ready to be happy, fulfilled and meaningful.

Good luck, Steve-O.

Project launch: Cusp

Cusp Online

I had the opportunity to design the user experience of the new e-commerce site for CUSP, a Chicago-DC-LA fashion store with createthe group. The site went live recently, and it looks great. I’m very pleased with how the "carousel" navigation for the Looks section came out. There were some other cool interactions we designed that it looks like didn’t make it into the final cut; maybe a future release. Anyhow, both the design and the clothes look great; go check it out!

How Crayons Are Made

How Crayons Are Made
This video had me swearing for years that I wanted to work in a crayon factory when I grew up.

Via NoahBrier.com.

An upcoming web conference has only 1 woman speaker out of 48 total

An upcoming web conference has only 1 woman speaker out of 48 total

Sad.

Design Comics Templates

Design Comics Templates

Design Comics
Lovely templates for creating comic-style scenarios from Sun.com’s user experience team. 

Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data

Why we’re powerless to resist grazing on endless web data

I shall be using this as an excuse from now on.

Veer Typeface Gallery

Veer Typeface Gallery

Gorgeous site navigation.        

Comparison of Different Religions’ Attitudes Towards Sex

Current Sexual Teachings of Religious Groups

Fascinating chart that compares different religions’ attitudes on sex. Buddhism FTW!

Bionic Breakbeats, or The Best Robot Songs

Bionic Breakbeats, or The Best Robot Songs

The History of Violence (as Told by a Hamburger)

Food Fight - This is strangely touching, especially the end of the twin hamburger towers. Thank god I waited until after lunch to watch this.

Via BuzzFeed.

Electrons in Motion

Electrons in Motion

Via io9.com.

Microsoft builds prototypes in PowerPoint

Microsoft builds prototypes in PowerPoint

I can’t tell if this is really surprising or really, really obvious.

iPhone developer SDK at last!

iPhone developer SDK at last!

Fail Dogs

Fail Dog

Fail Dogs FTW.

WWII as seen through the eyes of The New Yorker

WWII as seen through the eyes of The New Yorker

Aliens May Look More Like Us Than We Thought

Aliens May Look More Like Us Than We Thought

Cafe Cougar

Cafe Cougar

A new “schoolboy cafe” in Tokyo has waiters who look and act like teenage boarding school students as they flirt with the customers, mostly “office ladies in their twenties and thirties,” reports Reuters.

Hot.

“The worst kind of cretin: a cretin who is afraid of vaginas.”

The worst kind of cretin: a cretin who is afraid of vaginas.

Radar Online : Radar Rounds Up the Decade’s Most Misogynistic Movies