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) 