Why Wasn't I Consulted?
A terrific ‘long’ read, by Paul Ford, on the WWIC entitlement complex.
Via: laughingsquid
I’m listed in Tumblweeds under design, technology, photography
I’m listed in Tumblweeds, a user-generated community directory that rates Tumblr bloggers by their number of followers. Find me listed in #design, #technology, #photography
(Fellow Brit) @Cennydd Bowles on user experience.
Required reading for anyone who works in the field.
Google attempting to stop device fragmentation.
In the time it’s taken them to do this, a lot more people have bought iPads. What are Google going to do to convince consumers to switch platforms and lose the investment they’ve made on software and content for those devices?
Goodbye, DickBar.
Don’t let the Hashtag hit you on your Trendic Topic on the way out!
Madmanimation - The intro sequence to MadMen rebuilt in CSS3 (you’ll need a browser that wasn’t built in the stone age to view this).
Fun references to stars of the Internet.
So how exactly did the New York Times spend $40 Million on putting together its pay wall?
They could have given that to the developers of Color™.
Apple…We get it. It looks like a leather-bound calendar so it must be a calendar (OS X 10.7 Lion gets some interface updates in the latest developer preview).
Apple, you confuse me.
On the outside
Apple hardware: Beautiful, simple, elegant. Form = function.
On the Inside
Apple software: The pages of a book on design principles, torn up, and mixed in a bucket with Skittles and Lego*.
Yes, you’re meant to engage people’s senses, but do you remember typography? Do you remember information design? The content is the design. The data should engage. People shouldn’t be distracted by pixel painting. Painted pixels should act as sign-posts, not billboards.
*No offense to Skittles, or Lego, but we’re grown ups.
Flickr gets more share-y. Adds Tumblr.
