Technology Is What Makes Us Human: Fantastic essay on the way that the tools we use shape us. I sketch almost all the parts I make. This sort of back of the envelope scribbling is very different from precise engineering drawings - I change my mind all the time, scrubbing over the […]
Science Machine from Chad Pugh on Vimeo. This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a […]
Alex De Carvalho, via Twitter: I, too, find [Social Objects] a useful paradigm for web service design and community building. Stop me if I’m wrong, but this is what I got out of the concept: A social object is something that you care about enough to form a social bond around. It’s an interesting, external […]
Here, have a (very long) conversation with dopplr’s matt jones « Second Verse: MJ: Well - let’s dial back the Delorean a little to Jyri’s coinage of “social objects.” He was coming at it from social science, specifically “Actor-Network Theory” where sociologists consider everything to act on everything else - people, […]
The open tab in my browser reminded me that I’d intended to follow up on this interview with Indi Young on the subject of Mental Models. In this context, a “Mental Model” is a diagram that expresses the goals and needs of your intended audience, and pairs them up with the support structure in place […]
My Behance Dot Grid Book is open on my desk, taunting me. It’s a handsome spiral-bound sketchbook, with slightly-toothy paper that takes pencil well, and erases nicely. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with it for the last few weeks, and I’m trying to work out why. Impression The book is attractive in a way that’s qualitatively different […]
Jack Schulze and Matt Webb have been on fire, lately. They’ve got a new blog, Pulse Laser (after the classic C64 game Elite). And in the first week or so, they’ve managed to write a bunch of things that made my inner design geek stand up and wave its little antennae around. (I envision my inner […]
The Core 77 Design Blog has occupied a special spot in my Bloglines feed list for lo these many moons. Definitely the best place on the internets to find design snobbery, fun projects, blue foam, kinetic sculptures, eye candy, and more blue foam. Besides, where else can you find Blu-Foam sneakers? (Not that I can […]
Aza Raskin can only think of one thing at a time. And so can you. Yes, you. Stop sneering, and give this a try… Time yourself doing the following two actions: Spell aloud, letter by letter, “Jewelry is shiny” at the same time as you write your full name. Spell […]
Core77’s Design Blog made me jump out of my skin yesterday: Russian design company Maslov introduces USB-powered E-Paper, a programmable cardboard tablet that joins shortcut technology with good ol’ fashioned hand-written notes. Post-its recommended. First reaction: OMGWTF! Second reaction: Sweet Jeebus, don’t tell me that this is a fricking piece of cardboard with a USB cable […]
Mandatory Apology
Slapping on a theme to fix some random brokenness.
Fixes coming.
So I Sez
“Don't worry, if you die in a horribly improbable accident, a team of beautiful people led by a brilliant but broken man will figure it out.”
– The Subliminal Reassurances of Procedural Dramas
24 November 2005
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