At A Working Library, Mandy is afraid that we are victims of a kind of Gresham’s Law of web content and advertising.
There is no end to this, in that short of eviscerating the content all together (and removing any impetus the reader might have to visit in the first place), [...]
Chris Heathcote has found a source for the paper strips used by air traffic controllers, and has turned them into a kind of to-do list.
Follow the link for explanation and more photos.
The metaphor of personal computer as physical space has been strained beyond usefulness, in my opinion. It’s the lack of physicality that affords such insane productivity for Quicksilver users. Everything is abstracted into nouns and verbs and I get to mash them up however I need to. I’m unconstrained by “here” and “there.”
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This last week, I was invited by Dave Gray to the 2008 Sarasota International Design Summit.
There really is too much to summarize in a single post, but here are some of the highlights as I saw them.
People
I had the honor of meeting and befriending some amazing folks. A partial list:
Jennifer Magnolfi, Matt Jones, Timo Arnall, [...]
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 lines [...]
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 that [...]
