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CLICKNL: Het kennis- en innovatienetwerk van de creatieve industrie in Nederland
CLICKNL staat voor de meerwaarde van samenwerken. CLICKNL koppelt nieuwsgierige onderzoekers aan ondernemende creatieven. Samen ontwikkelen zij kennis en innovaties voor een sterke economie en een duurzame samenleving. Onder regie van het netwerk is een breed gedragen innovatieagenda opgesteld. De samenwerking tussen onderzoek, bedrijfsleven en overheid staat hierbij centraal. In CLICKNL zijn de volgende deelsectoren betrokken: Design, Media & ICT, Next Fashion, Games, Built Environment en Cultural Heritage.
iMMovator Cross Media Network is een netwerkorganisatie die zich richt op het versterken van de (cross)mediasector met nadruk op innovatie en economisch rendement. Daartoe publiceren we onderzoek, zetten we projecten op en organiseren evenementen.
Marketingfacts: Stats Dashboard
In het Stats Dashboard vind je voortdurend de belangrijkste up-to-date cijfers & statistieken over online marketing & media. De statistieken zijn ingedeeld naar channel.
Tips for becoming more customer-centric. Designing for simplicity. Also look at the Top Tasks approach. It´s about finding out what your customers most want to see improved about their customer experience. See: www.customercarewords.com.
SIDN - trends in internetgebruik
SIDN beheert het .nl domein. Ze regelen de registratie van de .nl-domeinnamen. Daarnaast delen ze ook kennis, steunen ze initiatieven voor een beter internet en ontwikkelen ze nieuwe diensten. SIDN publiceert onder andere diverse rapportages over trends in internetgebruik.
StatLine is de elektronische databank van het CBS. U kunt in StatLine zelf tabellen en grafieken samenstellen. De informatie is gratis en gemakkelijk te printen of te downloaden.
Om economisch en maatschappelijk tot de wereldwijde top te blijven behoren, richten we ons op maatregelen voor alle bedrijven en op negen topsectoren. Slimme samenwerking tussen bedrijven, onderzoekers en de overheid staat in beide gevallen centraal. Eén van de sectoren is: Creatieve industrie.
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Conferences etc...
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Conferences 2017
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Trends...
>TechTrends 2014 (frog)
Nature and Design
Miscellaneous & Fun...
>XKCD
Process / Planning / Just beautiful :)
Have you ever heard the phrase just add some UX like it was an ingredient? Time to serve 'em a real UX cooking.This project is a personal manifesto against the objectification of the term "UX". It's more than UI, it's more than a PSD file. You can use the project in three ways: (1) select the ux tools and techniques for your next project; (2) estimate (people, days, costs) for each and calculate the total; (3) click on the #hashtags to discover recommendations & templates for each. Check out the UX Project Checklist.
UXProDuckTions says: Beautiful concept!!!!
Design / Illustration / Portfolios / Art
Behance claims to be the leading online platform to showcase & discover creative work. The creative world updates their work in one place to broadcast it widely and efficiently. Companies explore the work and access talent on a global scale.
Boredpanda.com is a highly visual oddities magazine dedicated to showcasing the world’s most creative artworks, offbeat products and everything that’s really weird or wonderful.
Colossal | An art, design and visual culture blog
Colossal is a blog that explores art and other aspects of visual culture. Each week you’ll find 15-25 posts on photography, design, animation, painting, installation art, architecture, drawing, and street art. There are frequently posts about things far out in left field, but generally Colossal is a reminder that in this digital age there are still countless people making incredible work with their bare hands.
Design Festival provides daily tutorials and inspiration for designers. In these pages, web design professionals from around the world share their tips, advice, and expertise. Access best-practice UX design, logo design, typography, and coding advice. Indulge your passion for design—and learn a thing or two as you go. Contribute your own expertise to help others sharpen their skills.
As an online magazine dedicated to modern design, Design Milk offers what’s new in art, architecture, interior design, furniture and decor, fashion and technology. Always fresh + never sour, Design Milk fills your thirsty cup to the brim with design finds from around the world. Drink up!
Dribbble is a community of designers answering that question each day. Web designers, graphic designers, illustrators, icon artists, typographers, logo designers, and other creative types share small screenshots (shots) that show their work, process, and current projects. Dribbble is a place to show and tell, promote, discover, and explore design.
An illustration blog by Dave Mottram. "I grew up in the 70′s so cartoons, comics, movies and record covers were so inspiring as a kid. Sometimes, I drew my dad’s album covers (and on the paper sleeves sometimes, he was pissed) but mostly comics. I saw Star Wars when I was 7 years old and that blew my mind. In the 80′s it was Video game arcades. Shopping malls in the 80′s were amazing. They had fountains, neon and were completely over the top. I always saw those Video...." More...
The platform for young talents in design and architecture. Open:output makes your work seen. the platform gathers the most diverse projects from design and architecture schools around the world. by offering this unique collection open :output attracts thousands of visitors and makes your work seen by professionals, potential employers, university teachers and fellow students.
Pictify is the global home for sharing your favourite artworks, seeing other people’s, adding your comments, and building your own collection of favourite paintings, sculptures, photography, drawings, or any other art medium. Through Pictify you can share all art from the earliest cave drawings, the Renaissance, Old Masters and Impressionists to art works created today.
WikiArt.org - Encyclopedia of fine arts
The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art - from cave artworks to the new talents of today.
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Photography / Humans / Marketing
Fotografie op z'n best. 500px is a photo community powered by creative people worldwide that lets you discover, share, buy and sell inspiring photographs.
De beste advertenties en reclame campagnes ter wereld.
Een verzameling foto's afkomstig uit campagnes. Ingedeeld naar: Commercial, Editorial, Portraits, Projects, Film, Archive.
Mooi materiaal voor het maken van persona's. A collection of photographs, quotes and short stories from the people Brandon met in New York. Taken together, these portraits and captions became the subject of a vibrant blog, which over the past years has gained a large daily following. HONY provides a worldwide audience with glimpses into the lives of strangers in New York City.
Marketingfacts.nl is een marketing weblog. Feiten en cijfers over interactieve digitale marketing worden afgewisseld met luchtige onderwerpen. Samen met vele bloggers informeert de redactie ongeveer duizenden unieke bezoekers per maand. Marketingfacts.nl heeft diverse kanalen, te weten o.a.: Mobile marketing, Online video, Social media marketing, Usability & Design en Web analytics.
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Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.
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Stories / News / Knowledge
Digg delivers the most interesting and talked about stories on the Internet right now. The Internet is full of great stories, and Digg helps you find, read, and share the very best ones. It’s simple and it’s everywhere: visit Digg on the web, find it on your iPhone, or get the best of Digg delivered to your inbox with The Daily Digg.
Information about Learning, Training, Technology & Change.
Open source and open access literature. Knowledge from leading designers, bestselling authors and Ivy League professors to create open source, free-to-access textbooks on UX and design.
Mashable is a leading source for news, information & resources for the Connected Generation. Mashable reports on the importance of digital innovation and how it empowers and inspires people around the world. Mashable's 34 million monthly unique visitors and 14 million social media followers have become one of the most engaged digital networks in the world.
Quora's mission is to share and grow the world's knowledge. Quora is "your best source of knowledge". Ask any question, get real answers from people with first hand experience, and blog about what you know.
TED is a nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks (18 minutes or less). TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics, from science to business to global issues, in more than 100 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
The Verge was founded in 2011 in partnership with Vox Media, and covers the intersection of technology, science, art, and culture. Its mission is to offer in-depth reporting and long-form feature stories, breaking news coverage, product information, and community content in a unified and cohesive manner. The site is powered by Vox Media's Chorus platform, a modern media stack built for web-native news in the 21st century.
UX Design Agencies
Awards
IPPA - iPhone Photography Awards
iPhone Photography Awards™ (IPPAWARDS) is the first and the longest running iPhone photography competition since 2007. IPPAWARDS has been celebrating the creativity of the iPhone users since the first iPhone has inspired, excited and engaged the users worldwide. Since then every year, IPPAWARDS has selected the best shots among thousands of images submitted by iPhone photographers from 70+ countries around the world. Winners are selected by the jury members in several steps and The Photographer of the Year prize awarded.
Design Licks is a web design awards website that rewards the most beautiful, creative, user-friendly, innovative and well designed websites around the world.
Design Sigh is an electronic magazine which reveals the amazing world of design, trends, lifestyle, travel and vacation. It presents astonishing interiors and architecture ideas that would feed your hunger for inspiration and peace. Don’t be shy, browse through the main categories and bookmark your favourite articles for cool-designed places, houses, parks, museums, art exhibitions, public locations and cities worldwide.
FWA stands for Favourite Website Awards, an industry recognised internet award program and inspirational portal, established in May 2000. FWA is the most visited website award program in the history of the internet, with over 140 million site visits as of July 2011 (and multiple billion hits to our servers).
It collects and reviews only fresh,worthy and highly inspiring websites from around the world to empower designers’ creativity and ideas. Hotwebber is meant to become a neat and huge website collection that its every entry is a must see.There isn’t a preferred type of sites that are collected. The site has a vast variety of categories and tags. Each website is carefully reviewed and synthesized in a few lines, so that visitors can get an idea of the site, before ‘wasting’ any click. Entries are judged by their aesthetics, design, structure, functionality and code-thightness. There can be multimedia presentations, company and web agencies’ sites, personal portfolios and blogs or sites that are just fresh and cool.
The Interaction Awards recognize and celebrate examples of excellence in Interaction Design across domains, channels, environments and cultures. Interaction Awards is an initiative of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA), a global network of over 80,000 members worldwide dedicated to the professional practice of Interaction Design.
The Interactive Media Awards™ recognize the highest standards of excellence in website design and development and honor individuals and organizations for their outstanding achievement. The competition is designed to elevate the standards of excellence on the Internet and offer winners a boost in marketing and exposure.
With the red dot design award, the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen has created one of the internationally most acclaimed competitions. The award received more than 14,000 applications from over 70 countries in 2011 alone. This makes the competition, which stems from the product exhibition started in 1955 by Industrieform e.V., the predecessor to the Design Zentrum, the biggest design award worldwide. The “red dot” is established internationally as one of the most sought-after quality marks for good design. The Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen displays the award-winning products in the red dot design museum for at least one year.
StandOut Website Awards was made to serve as a source of inspiration to those looking to see some of the best web work from around the world. The best designers can showcase their work and receive the recognition they deserve.
De organisatie van de Usability Award 2011 wordt gesponsord door Metrixlab. Daarnaast is er een vakjury bij betrokken met mensen uit het bedrijfsleven met iedere een specialisatie op het gebied van usability. Met het uitreiken van de Usability Award, de jaarlijks terugkerende prijs voor de meest gebruiksvriendelijke website van Nederland, wil MetrixLab het belang van gebruiksvriendelijkheid voor het goed functioneren van een website onder de aandacht brengen en stimuleren.
The UXIES honor the innovators behind the digital products and services that define our world. The UXies inspire technologists to create human-centered products that solve real customer problems based on exceptional case study showcases of outstanding digital product design and user centered design process.
The UX Design Awards honour outstanding design and user orientation in products, digital solutions and services. The competition is bestowed annually by the International Design Center Berlin (IDZ). All successfully nominated product solutions are presented to the general public at IFA, the global trade show for consumer and home electronics in Berlin.
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. Established in 1996 during the Web's infancy, The Webbys is presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, which includes an Executive 1,000-member body of leading Web experts, business figures, luminaries, visionaries and creative celebrities, and Associate Members who are former Webby Award Winners and Nominees and other Internet professionals.
Web Marketing Association's WebAward
The Web Marketing Association has helped the online marketing community raise the bar for web development. Competition leads to constant improvement. Our award programs are for more than just pretty pictures, they use expert judges to review seven equally-weighted criteria to reward those who surpass the standard of excellence in web development. Our programs:
> WebAward competition for website development.
> MobileWebAwards for best mobile websites and best mobile apps (under construction)
> Internet Advertising Competition.