June 2011
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“Wolitzer describes them this way: “The generation that had information, but no...”
– The Twitter Trap - NYTimes.com. Watch yourself, prepare yourself for the moment you start to assume that younger generations mustn’t be as passionate as your own. Guard against it.
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“We could not have known and have only just learned–perhaps mostly from children...”
– The SX-70 Experience letter from Edwin Land
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“That means Gotham went from a print-based library that included 7,520 individual...”
– What does it take to make a web font? A lot of work
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Overcoming Bias : Bike Helmet Doubts →
I’ll likely get some flack for this linking to this, but the article touches on a gut feeling that’s directly related to why I don’t wear a helmet that often: I’m pretty skeptical about how useful they really are. Sample quote: “Ordinary cycling is not demonstrably more dangerous than walking or driving, yet no country promotes helmets for either of these modes. …...
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“Everybody is a special case somehow.”
– Progressive Disclosure (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
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“I keep noticing the many parallels between UX design and film editing. As an...”
– Craig Syverson, responding to Design Basics: Flow Is Why “OK” Buttons Are Always On The Right and Why OK buttons In DIalog Boxes Work Best on the Right
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User interfaces my mother doesn't understand →
Fascinating list of standard user behaviors & interfaces that hy3lxs’ mom just doesn’t get.
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“Intuitive behavior is not an objective standard. It’s a slow-moving target. If...”
– Black&White™ » Blog Archive » Getting to the Customer – Why Everything You Think about User-Centred Design is Wrong
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“The majority of iteration should be done in the privacy of your own head.”
– Steven Walker (via petervidani)
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“The principle holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they...”
– Peter Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work....”
– Gall’s law, from John Gall’s Systemantics
“Delight the eye without distracting the mind.”
– One of Google’s product design guidelines, via Design Principles
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Web Typography for the Lonely →
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The Wheels Of Steel: An Ode To Turntables (in... →
My coworker made an incredible turntable-based UI in HTML. Amazing.
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“It was fairly common in medieval times to put east at the top. Which has a logic...”
– Carl Muckenhoupt in a comment on See Different, a MetaFilter thread about alternative maps.
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Beautiful & Effective Newsletters →
A small but excellent curated list of beautiful email newsletters.
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Why your Apple adapters always end up cracking... →
‘Now it just so happens that the Industrial Design department HATES how a strain relief looks on a power adapter. They would much prefer to have a nice clean transition between the cable and the plug. Aesthetically, this does look nicer, but from an engineering point of view, it’s pretty much committing reliability suicide. Because there is no strain relief, the cables fail at a very...
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Historical Disney Princesses →
Definitely worth checking these out. My favorite is Snow White, from sixteenth-century Germany.
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my dream setup
Daniel Bogan runs The Setup, a series of interviews about what hardware and software people use to get their jobs done. I answered his questions for the Flickr code blog a while back. Here’s my answer to the question ‘What is your dream setup?’
What would be your dream setup?
We’re at a really fascinating point in hardware development right now, which makes it difficult to...
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“Marie-Line Germain (Germain, 2006) developed a psychometric measure of...”
– From the Wikipedia article about experts
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“If you think you know the core competencies needed for a team, list them on a...”
– Bill Buxton, Innovation Calls For I-Shaped People - BusinessWeek
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“In a sense, you could say that the brilliance of a good designer is not defined...”
– Nishant Kothary, Predictable Design | UX Magazine
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What is typography like in China? →
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What are best practices for building something... →
Interesting discussion on Quora.
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Typeface (comics) - Wikipedia, the free... →
Did you know there was a comic book villain named…Typeface?
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“A mentor doesn’t just advise, but listens. You have problems you’re struggling...”
– Mule Design Studio’s Blog: On Design, Soccer, and Mentorship
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“Trithemius believed it was necessary to continue to copy manuscripts by hand,...”
– The House of Wisdom | booktwo.org
“Our expanding presence in the project lifecycle does not make us project...”
– The Expanding Role of User Experience Design | UX Magazine
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“The idea that some shadowy group or other is running things for their own...”
– A new book explains why national disasters are likely to call forth particularly wild conspiracy theories. The alternative explanations, of incompetence or inherent vulnerability, are simply too painful to bear.
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“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– Daniel Burnham (via ontko)
Hands Off Our Houses →
Fantastic article that puts the $300 house project in context. A great reminder to do research if you’re trying to tackle a particular problem.
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“I am an eyewitness to the ways in which people relate to themselves and to each...”
– Richard Neutra
“If you are making an application, think of how the users will interact with it...”
– UX Tips for Non UX Designers, via UX Magazine And career tip: thinking of all designs like this makes potentially uninteresting products REALLY interesting. 