July 2009
17 posts
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Rhonda →
…an incredible 3D drawing tool. William Gibson, @littlemonsta
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Watch“How it would be, if a house was dreaming” Marcelo Viana
Telescopic Text →
by Joe Davis SingleFunction
PowerPoint: Dumb-dumb bullets →
Edward Tufte’s take is a must-read. William Gibson
WatchLondon taxis—a GPS visualization William Gibson
“[The iPhone 3G] is the kind of phone I wanted to make.”
– Takeshi Natsuno, former SVP of NTT DoCoMo, and the guru behind i-mode
Jonathan Ive on The Key to Apple's Success →
The fireside chat at London’s Royal College of Art was also covered by the BBC and Macworld UK.
Wolfram Alpha and hubristic user interfaces →
Jeff Hawkins realized is that the human skull contains an organ called a “brain,” which has spent several million years learning to use tools. Therefore, if you are building a control interface, ie a tool, the prudent way to proceed is to (a) assume your users will need to learn to use your tool, (b) make it as easy as possible to learn the tool, and (c) make the tool as effective...
“It’s not enough for Microsoft to simply prove that Windows is better than OS X,...”
– Saul Hansell
Why Hulu Succeeded As Other Video Sites Failed →
I’ll admit, I was wrong on Hulu, too. In the last few years, they’ve put together something polished and exceptional.
Not only did Hulu have something people wanted, it had a brand promise that was clear and distinctive: Hulu is where you go for network TV. That’s different from YouTube, which is where you go to watch the biggest collection of video that isn’t on TV. Hulu, in...
Mobile Web Application Best Practices →
This W3C working draft is full of essential best practices for desktop and mobile web development, all in one document.
Those new to real web optimization will be better for reading it, and even old hands can benefit.
“We are becoming irrelevant award-chasers.”
– Jeff Goodby
“Once you have more than one designer, you get inconsistency, both in vision and...”
– Matthew Thomas, Why Free Software usability tends to suck Matt Asay