January 2012
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“The fact of the matter is I want everything we do–that I do personally, that our...”
– Saul Bass
December 2011
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5 Ways to Be Persuasive in Your UX Work →
The best, most practical rundown of ways to get your point across in a work environment. Especially number one.
November 2011
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Handy list of empathy blockers, or, never say this...
This morning I heard a hilarious story about Friend A trying to cheer up Friend B by calculating the number of hours Friend B could rightfully claim to be upset. It reminded me that not everybody knows about empathy blockers, the emotional equivalent of logical fallacies. Here’s a handy list from Robin Grille’s Heart to Heart Parenting. While the full article is geared towards...
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“I did make a bunch of money by winning the Netscape Startup Lottery, it’s...”
– JWZ’s response to Arrington’s “Startups Are Hard. So Work More, Cry Less, And Quit All The Whining”, in Watch a VC use my name to sell a con. | jwz
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“In any case, Maus argues, these chord patterns that to us might feel redolent of...”
– John Maus: ‘If my music sounds 80s, you’re hearing its medieval backbone’ | Music | The Guardian
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October 2011
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No big deal, just the immigration form Apollo 11... →
Just a Neuschwanstein Castle fly over →
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Let’s Help Amit Defeat Leukemia! →
Amit’s one of the most incredible people I’ve ever met, and I’m proud to be his friend. If you think you can help, please, check out this blog post for more information.
‘The best thing you can do is get anyone you know of South Asian descent to take a very simple, free, painless test and spread the word to their friends. You can take the test at our party on October 14th...
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“Gilmore and Pine put forth this interesting concept, that the most valuable...”
– Jesse Schell’s mindblowing talk on the future of games (DICE 2010)
September 2011
“You can always feel when product/market fit isn’t happening. The customers...”
– The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters - pmarca ARCHIVE - bit.ly/1z2b3V
“Markets that don’t exist don’t care how smart you are.”
– The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 4: The only thing that matters - pmarca ARCHIVE - bit.ly/1z2b3V
“Good designers like observing — really looking at what people do rather than...”
– How Good Designers Think - Simon Rucker - Harvard Business Review
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“We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody...”
– From Steve Jobs’s Best Quotes. I wonder if SJ amended this philosophy at all when he re-joined Apple.
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“This is the theory… that anything that is art… is presumably about some certain...”
– E. Gorey’s Great Simple Theory About Art, via Floating Worlds: Edward Gorey’s Never-Before-Seen Letters and Illustrated Envelopes | Brain Pickings
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“This one tiny moment highlights something that is a huge struggle for me. When I...”
– Replicated Innovation
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August 2011
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“One of the most fascinating effects I’ve seen in quite awhile is that we can...”
– The Secret Language Code: Scientific American
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“Back in 2009, the movement appeared genuinely stumped with a conundrum of its...”
– Abe Sauer, What I Learned in Two Years at the Tea Party. I haven’t been a Christian for years, but the article’s opening thesis–that the Tea Party wants a Christian nation–is obvious to anyone who grew up in a speaking-tongues household. If you didn’t know that those sorts of...
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“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did...”
– Steve Jobs (via putorti)
“These experiments demonstrated that there is a finite store of mental energy for...”
– Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? - NYTimes.com
“The process in making this a reality turned out to be very interesting. Much is...”
– On making a mobile, responsive version of Dribbble, from SimpleBits / Adapted
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“Recently, in our industry, I’ve noticed a disturbing increase of the term...”
– Mark Boulton, Visual Design is not a thing. I couldn’t agree more. This quote’s final sentence is exactly the conclusion I’ve come to recently, which is that every great designer I know would never simply call themselves a visual designer, or a UX designer.
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Unadventure as creation →
bobulate:
Eno on unadventure:
“In my normal life I’m a very unadventurous person,” Mr. Eno said. “I take the same walk every day and I eat in the same restaurants, and often eat exactly the same things in the same restaurants. I don’t adventure much except when I’m in the studio, and then I only want to adventure. I cannot bear doing something again, or thinking that I’m doing something again.”...
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Golden Grid System →
‘The 16 columns can be combined, or folded, into 8 columns for tablet-sized screens, and into 4 columns for mobile-sized ones. This way GGS can easily cover any screen sizes from 240 up to 2560 pixels.’
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“I suspect a lot of people aren’t sure what’s the top idea in their...”
– Paul Graham, The Top Idea in Your Mind. I’ve been taking this advice to heart since reading this essay last week. It’s been surprisingly easy to stop myself when I realize I’m idly thinking about less useful or unproductive subjects. It’s also interesting to learn what...
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“Far worse than that is when these same people flood the App Store with negative...”
– PSA: This is why non-developers shouldn’t run iOS betas | TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
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It's spring cleaning time
As one of nature’s instinctive horders, I have to periodically take stock of my belongings and separate the necessary from the nice. Here’s some nice things that I don’t really need, and would like to give to someone who wants them.
A lot of books, including…
Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s lovely translations of Russian works, including Notes from...
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this doesn't seem good.
Me: Hello?
Telemarketer: Hello, ma'am. I'm calling because you were pre-selected for a $250 gift certificate to Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and...
Me: Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not interested. Take me off your list.
Telemarketer: Ma'am, you signed up for this list.
Me: What? No I didn't. Take me off the list.
Telemarketer: Ma'am, you signed up for the [name of some list].
Me: Okay, fine. I still want to be taken off the list.
Telemarketer: But you signed up!
Me: I don't care! Take me off the list!
Telemarketer: Well *I* don't care either! I'm gonna just call you back later. *click*