May 2011
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“Ill-defined problems, short project schedules, and a lack of patience are common...”
– The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters) - Atlantic Mobile
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“Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.”
– Frank Gehry
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“Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.”
– Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
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“It needs saying that Kafka’s books are, among other things, funny,...”
– JACKET MECHANICAL: Kafka
“Language is communication, and my father was fastidious about it. Often when we...”
– My Father’s Final Gift « Aza on Design
What a good idea.
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“Please note the ridiculous typo on the front cover, which in effect, re-titles...”
– Paul Sahre: Selected Work: How I Changed A History of Western Philosophy
Sahre’s “Regrets” section is definitely worth a read.
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“Most people have a hard time grasping something new. If you were to put concepts...”
– Rakesh Agrawal answering Startup Ideas: Keith Rabois said that “the better the Internet idea, the more difficult it is to sell it to others.” Why and how is this true? - Quora
Checkins / iOS UI Patterns (beta) →
Nice collection of iPhone patterns.
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“We all agree interruption is rude. But we don’t agree on what constitutes...”
– the always amazing Deborah Tannen
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“The reasons for the shift are economic as well as cultural, most people in these...”
– Need Therapy? A Good Man Is Hard to Find - NYTimes.com
It’s true: generally women take over a field, and then salaries go down, not the reverse. It’s an interesting potential insight into how much salaries matter to men vs. women.
“What I’m trying to get at is a sense that cataloging is a bit like case...”
– The search for a minimum viable record - O’Reilly Radar
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“I was especially delighted by Hoover’s observation that, although girls...”
– sandbox
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“It should come as no surprise that some members of this group perceive the world...”
– FarukAt.eş
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“Questions about whether design is necessary or affordable are quite beside the...”
– from Book Design: A Practical Introduction, by Douglas Martin
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“Now we’re really moving away from established user interface patterns. Would you...”
– Welcome to The New Rapportive - The Rapportive Blog
Awesome writeup of the design process at Rapportive (via @ellendbeldner)
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“If we’ve learned anything from Facebook’s many redesign and privacy fiascoes,...”
– What Digg Must Do to Survive
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WeeNudge | Teach your clients about the mysteries... →
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“Today I was driven insane by an article implying that Netflix could serve as a...”
– Wrong Assumptions and Netflix - blackrimglasses.com
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“There are two things you have to do to make people pause. The most important is...”
– The Hardest Lessons for Startups to Learn
Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical... →
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Announcing: WouldHire.com « Thomas Reynolds →
‘Somehow, despite all of our constant communication and over-sharing on Twitter, we still like to avoid “serious” conversations about jobs, salaries and what it would take to get your friend/buddy/idol to work with you. So, to scratch this itch, Josh Pyles and I spent the last weekend putting together WouldHire.com.’
“I’m passionate about enabling people to understand, and visual...”
– Dynamic Pictures, via Bret Victor, beast of burden
“What I’d like to do away with is the whole ‘album’-based way...”
– Marius Kempe, answering What would the perfect UI/UX for browsing large photo albums look like? - Quora
“If several years ago you stopped challenging yourself, you’re going to be bored....”
– Transcript and Video of Speech by Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer, Facebook | Barnard College
I teared up reading this speech.
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The most important page on Flickr
Is this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/friends/
(I am a designer at Flickr. This post is largely taken from a proposed redesign I sent out last year.)
Virtually every time someone asks if I’ve seen a new photo on Flickr, I first cringe a bit, then reluctantly say no—it’s always no, because the page dedicated to showing new photos on Flickr, Contacts > Uploads, makes it...
“The Gruen transfer is the moment when consumers respond to “scripted...”
– Gruen transfer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
How can Rdio avoid becoming the next Flickr? -... →
“You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people...”
– Neil Gaiman - Wikiquote
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won’t adhere to any rules. The most...”
– Tom Robbins quotes
“When you read a Tom Robbins book, you are experiencing the words not only in the...”
– How to Write Like Tom Robbins
“I don’t like making decions, first of all. I try to never, ever make them about...”
– The Frenemy.: Booze Handbook
“I always have confidence that I’ll figure something out. I just have that...”
– Why Entrepreneurs make Bad Angel investors | Kibble
This is how I am, too! I get excited about everybody else’s idea. Bad for investors, great if you want somebody to bounce off ideas with.
