July 2011
And there are always screenshots to preserve posts that are deleted, such as...
– In Baring Train Crash Facts, Blogs Erode China Censorship - NYTimes.com
In some ways, the Chinese weibos replicate their Western counterparts: they...
– In Baring Train Crash Facts, Blogs Erode China Censorship - NYTimes.com
A Planner thinks he already knows the answer; he thinks of poverty as a...
– Is Everything Obvious Once You Know The Answer? - Farnam Street
He and his colleagues got subjects to read out a list of 84 unrelated words...
– Stumbling and Mumbling: Brands, placebos & tuition fees
Balzac supposedly wrote that “behind every great fortune lies a great crime”. It...
– Schumpeter: Great bad men as bosses | The Economist
The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you make music or write or create, it’s really your job to have...
– Lady GaGa (from Blender Magazine) (via coketalk, fuckyeahladygaga) (via ronenreblogs) (via 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart)
It’s cheaper to design marketing quality into the product than it is to...
– Seth’s Blog: Defining quality
But what I guess my point is sometimes there a reason why things are crap, and...
– Hacker News | Well having been in the person in charge of a major news website myself I can sa… (via iamdanw)
How the Editor of Windows Magazine Became an Apple... →
minimalmac:
The perfect out-of-box experience with the iPhone, the elegance of the whole experience of using an iPhone, re-set my expectations for how consumer electronics and computers should function. I started looking at the out-of-box experience of buying a Windows PC with a new contempt. The crapware. The stickers. The anti-virus software problem where the cure is worse than the disease....
If you see the goal of interaction design as supporting human goals and...
– Hand waving and the “real work” of design - confectious
Staging is also important in providing evidence of hard work. As a backdrop for...
– Hand waving and the “real work” of design - confectious
On the traditional Google home page the total word count on the page is...
– Website redesign: A design for strife - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
For Americanchai the Gawker redesign wasn’t just a different layout – it...
– Website redesign: A design for strife - Features, Gadgets & Tech - The Independent
There’s only one solution: You must embrace failure. You must admit what is. You...
– Famous Creators on the Fear of Failure | Brain Pickings
Whether it’s a new client dangling a fat paycheck or a needy friend who requires...
– A New Kind of New Year’s Resolution: Saying No :: Tips :: The 99 Percent
Objects, like people, are fetishized when they’re new. New objects are shiny,...
– Craighton Berman - On the beauty of aging
Work in public. Reveal nothing.
– The art of working in public « Snarkmarket
Working in public like this can be a lot of fun, for writer and reader alike,...
– The art of working in public « Snarkmarket
Predicting the future by projecting the present is like driving with no hands....
– Future Babble: Why expert predictions fail and why we believe them anyway - Farnam Street
And this is the sense in which denial is constitutive of the company, a built-in...
– Phone hacking row shows News Corp is no ordinary news company | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
…as it finds new and inventive ways to buckle and squirm under its...
– Fugazi: End Hits | Music | Music Review | The A.V. Club
embrace the constraints you’ve been given. Use them as assets, as an...
– Seth’s Blog: Embracing constraints
Basically, I came to the conclusion that if I wanted to design great user...
– Subtraction.com: The End of Client Services
By amalgamating possibility, your aggregate reading experience, the range of...
– Datachondria » Blog Archive » Not Books, but Doors: Why eReading is a More Immersive Experience
I love that story because the LSO helped Doug achieve an insight. He tried to...
– Insight | Conversation | Edge
There are several different routes for people to develop insights. A lot of the...
– Insight | Conversation | Edge
There were ‘literally’ a million people there, or I ‘literally’ died I was so...
– Literally, the most misused word - The Boston Globe
Basic physics dictate that, in order to become more sustainable, technology must...
– n 1: Mother Nature’s Sons (via ronmarks)
Recent research asked a particularly interesting question on “whether...
– Returning favors even when no one finds out - Farnam Street
In his autobiography, Franklin explains how he curried favor by manipulating a...
– The Ben Franklin Effect - Farnam Street
People who can’t communicate with each other get stuck making complicated...
– ZURB – How Design Teamwork Crushes Bureaucracy (via soxiam)
Throughout our creative lives we have sifted through everything to select what...
– Vignelli’s Canon (PDF)