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Front Elevation is the Personal Blog of the User Experience Designer Robert Lewis. This blog seeks to present items about design and technology that are both interesting and noteworthy.

The Laws of Simplicity

book.jpgJohn Maeda’s blog to support his book of the same name.

“Maeda–a professor in MIT’s Media Lab and a world-renowned graphic designer–explores the question of how we can redefine the notion of “improved” so that it doesn’t always mean something more, something added on.”

Table Topics

tabletopics_logo1.gif“Great questions to start great conversations. A brand new collection of conversation starters to spice up family dinners, break the ice at cocktail hour, and enrich dinner parties. With three editions for adults, families, and teens, TableTopics strives to make the most out of the conversations that happen around us every day, no matter where we are, or who we are.”

Scriptographer 2.0

script.gifScriptographer is a scripting plugin for Adobe Illustrator™. It gives the user the possibility to extend Illustrator’s functionality by the use of the JavaScript language. The user is no longer limited to the same tools that are used by most graphic designers around the globe. Scriptographer allows the creation of mouse controlled drawing-tools, effects that modify existing graphics and scripts that create new ones.

Google SketchUp

logo_SUfG.gifGoogle SketchUp (free) is an easy-to-learn 3D modeling program that enables you to explore the world in 3D. With just a few simple tools, you can create 3D models of houses, sheds, decks, home additions, woodworking projects – even space ships. And once you’ve built your models, you can place them in Google Earth, post them to the 3D Warehouse, or print hard copies.”