January 2009
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“The designers fixed the problem simply. They took away the Register button. In...”
– [ The $300 Million Button ]
Getting rid of one button and replacing it with another button does not change fuctionality or user flows, and both of these would have had to change in order for the users to checkout with having to register. I’m not sure if Spool assumed his readers would know...
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“Is that Ray Liotta? A question I found myself asking over and over again...”
– [ Virgin: the world’s best passenger complaint letter?, in the Telegraph ]
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“A Fire Upon the Deep (1992) is a science fiction novel written by Vernor Vinge,...”
– [ about A Fire Upon the Deep, via Wikipedia ]
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so spot on.
I am a Virgo. This description of a Virgo is basically…me. (Both practical and fussy, yup yup!)
CAPRICORN The Go-Getter (Dec 22 - Jan 19) Patient and wise. Practical and rigid. Ambitious. Tends to be Good-looking. Humorous and funny. Can be a bit shy and reserved. Often pessimistic. Capricorns tend to act before they think and can be Unfriendly at times. Hold grudges. Like competition. Get...
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who am i to keep the people from their gradient...
timoni: http://shelbot.tumblr.com/post/73304458/im-bidding-on-this-part-for-my-subaru-which-was
timoni: what do you think?
heather: i agree. most any design preference is a class thing
heather: only people in positions of privilege can take the time out to care about that stuff, mostly
timoni: true, but i always assumed, as a designer (and norman really takes this view in his books) that those who _do care_ bear the entire responsibility for good design. nobody else should have to think about it--which is why people want to outright ban comic sans.
timoni: then nobody can use it, and it's no longer a problem.
timoni: like only designing doors that are clearly made to be "pushed" or "pulled" instead of confusing ones.
heather: ok, but calling it a "problem" is like... genocidal
heather: what about elementary school teachers?
heather: do they have to use helvetica for things in their classroom?
heather: hideous as it is, comic sans makes a lot of people happy
timoni: i wonder if it really does?
heather: for sure it does
timoni: shouldn't designers have made a better typeface?
timoni: if people want a "cheerful" typeface--and it's clear they do--and all they got was comic sans, then somebody failed, really.
timoni: the reason most documents are written in times new roman is not that most people prefer it but because it was the default in MS Word for _ages_.
heather: i guess. but you gotta keep in mind that there are tons of people in the world itching to put this stuff on their myspace profiles: http://cooltext.com/
heather: it's all really ugly. and not well designed. but still it survives
timoni: good point. when people are given options...
timoni: true.
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“The upper and lower case typeface was developed as an outgrowth of an all-caps...”
– [ Alex White on Herb Lubalin’s Avant Garde ]
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“blogs are great for everybody to express, ‘this is what i’m into. this is what...”
– kanye west (via sarazucker)
Nice! That’s exactly what I think my Tumblr is.
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amazon recommends exactly the books i already...
[ via mareen ]
My first thought: “Wow, Amazon’s recommendation system really is incredible.”
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“It’s easy to design usable interfaces that enable people to complete tasks. It’s...”
– [ Defining that “one thing”, in rhjr.net ]
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“Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to...”
– [ email from George Bush before entering office. Via Gadgets: Most Powerful Man in World Gets Most Powerful BlackBerry in World, in Valleywag ]
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a trick i picked up
whenever anyone asks you a hypothetical question about what you would do in a certain situation, ALWAYS say you would do the most noble option.
ie. if you are asked if you would run into a burning building to save a litter of stray kittens (even if they are kind of ugly), your response should be, “hell yes! and if i see any smouldering hamsters in there, i’ll pocket them as well. and if i can’t...
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nicool:
My soon to be 95 (day after Xmas) year old great aunt Lena just informed me she eats ice cream for every meal.
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Derek Powazek - Things I Learned the Hard Way:... →
Nice post about adressing underlying problems, especially when that problem is a sense of ownership.
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““The great thing about the Internet is that it gives everybody an opinion...”
– [ Don’t trust anyone under 30?, from the International Herald Tribune ]
I agree: most people don’t care about the details of my day, no matter how witty I am on Twitter. In fact, my posting so much information makes it harder to find out genuinely important things about me: every tweet,...
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“The week that Tim actually works a four-hour work week will be a cold week in...”
– [ 5 Time management tricks I learned from years of hating Tim Ferriss, from the Brazen Careerist by Penelope Trunk ]
When I stop to ponder Tim Ferris and his “four-hour workweek”—admittedly not an everyday occurence—this is exactly the conclusion I always come to. If work is only doing...
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