10 ways to improve Pinterest

Dear Ben (Silbermann) and Evan (Sharp),

I just love your product. If my front-end development skills would still by on point I'd even consider applying for that Product Designer job at your company.

I've recently used Pinterest to plan my wedding and decorate my new home. By doing that I discovered that there is still room for improvement. Of course there is. I believe your product is a good one so in order to help you and your team to new levels I listed some of my frustrations from a user point of view.

I found it a bit inconvenient that Pinterest does not offer the following functionalities:

1. drag and drop from desktop
2. batch upload of images
3. image replacement of existing pin
4. re-arrangement of pins in a board
5. scrolling to next/previous pin in pin detail view mode
6. batch pinning of images from one webpage
7. merging of different boards
8. making a board secret after creating it
9. moving pins from non-secret boards to secret boards
10. possibility to include a link-only, in the comment section of a pin

Also, I understand that your product wants to pursue quality by obligating to add description to every pin but as a user I just don't have the need to caption everything I post.

Hope this can help you out for new developments throughout 2013.

Kind regards
@grapplica

New OFFF brand - contest

OFFF is the process to do a global rebrand to OFFF Festival and has decided to give you the opportunity to send your ideas.



This is a big step for them and they would love to have you all involved in some way on this process.

To make it more fun and spontaneous, you only have until next Sunday 5th September 2010 to send your idea/concept.

What OFFF needs is:

- New Logo for OFFF (with a solution to include subareas like "OFFF Logo + Atelier", "OFFF Logo + Ontour", or "OFFF Logo + F.C."), vector format.
- New tagline (no more Post-Digital Creation Culture).
- A quick sample of identity cards.

OFFF will select at least 50 proposals that will be included in the next OFFF Book Project to be published by Indexbook next June 2011 and of course only one will have the opportunity to be "the one".

Catching up with good old classics: Requiem for a Dream

An ab-so-lute classic and a bloody good one. Sick one actually sorry. For the release of the movie Requiem for a Dream, Hi-ReS! created a website as sick as the plot of the movie itself. A creation of the blessed year 2000.



The website for the movie, www.requiemforadream.com puts a heavy emphasis on the art-fuckery aspect of the movies' visual flair, with fake websites based on products and shows in the movie, multimedia noise shows, and distorted stills of the movie. Kinda like jodi.org, with a more defined mission drive, characters who you learn bits and pieces about, and Shockwave Flash designed pages. It makes you feel like you should be on something when you're looking at it. One thing though, you must be running at least an 800x600 display or you run the chance of getting stuck.

When you first start up the page, you get the title and the distributor. That then fades out to an ad banner (either Month of Fury, Juice, or another ad banner), which comes up to the countdown and the rallying chants of Tappy Tibbons' (Christopher McDonald) show, which leads to "tappytibbons.com", which quickly fuzzes out when you click on a part of the site to a display of the title. Letting that pass gradually gets you to a distorted still of two of the main characters Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto} and Marion Silver (Jennifer Connelly). From here is where the path splits.

The rest you have to find out for yourself :)
More about the movie >

Catching up with good old classics: Bionic Systems

Not quite your super obvious killer website but the combination af Bionic's futuristic graphics and 3D modelling were innovative considering the date of release (this example is from 2001) Very fresh and sharp at the time. The style was followed by hordes of webdesigners in the years to come.

Bionic Systems is a studio for media crossing design.
Located in Düsseldorf, Germany, we are working for global players as well as boutique brands of wide-ranging sectors.

The studio was established in 1999 by Doris Fürst and Malte Haust, both graduated designers. Bionic Systems cooperates with a network of trusted partners to deliver full-spectrum production knowledge and a rapid workflow.

We are dedicated to inspiring high quality work with a focus on your brief. Having a long experience in designing fonts and complex graphics, Bionic Systems settle design jobs with unique and outstanding results.

We believe in diversity.
Whether cutting-edge or classic, we always aim for strong designs with an innovative twist.