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The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:31:06 -0800

The Great Tech War Of 2012 | Fast Company:

"We don’t know for sure what’s going to happen when we have our first full quarter of new Ice Cream..."

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:32:05 -0800

“We don’t know for sure what’s going to happen when we have our first full quarter of new Ice Cream Sandwich-based phones available that aren’t competing against a brand new iPhone, but the consumers in the “ended up with Android” not only don’t know what confection their phone is running, they don’t care. It’s the people who chose Android because it was Android who do, and—again, this is speculation, but I think there’s a lot of circumstantial evidence to support it—those people are a smaller percentage of Android owners than the percentage of iPhone users who specifically wanted an iOS phone.”

- Coyote Tracks

Thinking Bigger about the Future of iOS Computing - Zero Distraction - Intersecting Culture and Technology

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:42:05 -0800

Thinking Bigger about the Future of iOS Computing - Zero Distraction - Intersecting Culture and Technology:

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Amazon's Hit Man - Businessweek

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:50:05 -0800

Amazon's Hit Man - Businessweek:

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Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to Stop Shame - NYTimes.com

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:35:51 -0800

Ringing Finally Ended, but There’s No Button to Stop Shame - NYTimes.com:

The thing about this, is that you’re delighting a user when this alarm goes off when you’ve accidentally left it on mute and you’re not late for your flight. Should there be a setting? Yeah, I guess, but the default should still be exactly as designed.

Amazon Kindle Owners Are “Borrowing” Nearly 300,000 Electronic Books A Month

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 21:02:16 -0800

Amazon Kindle Owners Are “Borrowing” Nearly 300,000 Electronic Books A Month:

infoneer-pulse:

According to the company, customers borrowed nearly 300,000 (295,000 to be exact) KDP Select titles in December alone, and KDP Select has helped grow the total library selection. With the $500,000 December fund, KDP authors have earned $1.70 per borrow. In response to strong customer adoption of the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, Amazon says it has added a $200,000 bonus to the January KDP Select fund, raising the total pool from $500,000 to $700,000 for authors.

» via TechCrunch

The world's best pancake recipe

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:30:06 -0800

The world's best pancake recipe:

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MIN MING - All things design, UX, and other random stuff.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:50:06 -0800

MIN MING - All things design, UX, and other random stuff.:

Android UI fragmentation.

Some Thoughts on Teaching

Sun, 11 Dec 2011 07:50:05 -0800

Some Thoughts on Teaching:

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Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups | VentureBeat

Mon, 28 Nov 2011 16:10:06 -0800

Design is becoming a competitive advantage for startups | VentureBeat:

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Don't. Waste. Time. - humbledMBA

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:51:05 -0800

Don't. Waste. Time. - humbledMBA:

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"One tool would be chosen as primary and the others reduced and simplified to conform to it, or they..."

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 09:44:05 -0800

“One tool would be chosen as primary and the others reduced and simplified to conform to it, or they would be crudely patched together with ugly seams. Seamfully integrated tools would maintain the unique characteristics of each tool, through transformations that retained their individual characteristics. This would let the user brush some characters with the paint tool in some artful way, then use the text editor to ‘search and replace’ some of the brushstroked characters, and then paint over the result with colour washes. Interaction would be seamless as the features of each tool were “literally visible, effectively invisible”. Seamful integration is hard, but the quality of interaction can be improved if we let each tool ‘be itself”

- Beautiful seams | otrops

"The Kindle, much like a paperback book, is just as happy “asleep” as it is in use. It’s a reminder..."

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:09:05 -0800

“The Kindle, much like a paperback book, is just as happy “asleep” as it is in use. It’s a reminder that the design of genuinely ubiquitous devices and products is not just about what they are like in use; it is also about what they are like when they are just present.”

- Asleep and Awake – Blog – BERG

Linear Dollars Per Win, Again | FanGraphs Baseball

Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:41:05 -0800

Linear Dollars Per Win, Again | FanGraphs Baseball:

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azizisbored: YES! Cannot overstate my love for Chris Pratt or...

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 10:15:34 -0700

[Flash 10 is required to watch video.]

azizisbored:

YES! Cannot overstate my love for Chris Pratt or his alterego Bert Macklin. I just wish this was the opening title sequence to a full on Macklin feature film.

gigglemonster:

SABOTAGE:
You thought he was dead? So did the President’s enemies.

[music: the beastie boys]
[for tobyziegler & fujiidom]

free - List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:34:23 -0700

free - List of freely available programming books - Stack Overflow:

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Aha! Moments When Learning Git | BetterExplained

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:22:37 -0700

Aha! Moments When Learning Git | BetterExplained:

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7 Steps to a Kick-Ass UX Portfolio

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:08:47 -0700

7 Steps to a Kick-Ass UX Portfolio:

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Shadows

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:13:58 -0700

Shadows:

americanmccarver:

The AP:

A day after Albert Pujols complained about hitting in late-afternoon shadows after a loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, his manager backed him up.

Tony La Russa said Tuesday he’d been hesitant to criticize conditions after a 4-1 loss because it might be perceived as sour grapes.

I don’t understand. Why don’t they just rotate Busch Stadium so that it points the same way versus the sun that it did back in the years when the Cardinals were contenders?

Yeah!

Neven Mrgan's tumbl: The Apple Logo

Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:00:17 -0700

Neven Mrgan's tumbl: The Apple Logo:

mrgan:

The logo of Apple Inc. is among the best-known and best-designed in the world. It has lasted thirty-four years, and we have little reason to think it’ll be replaced any time soon.

It wasn’t designed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Paul Rand, or Jonathan Ive. It was designed by an advertising…

Great story, and I think the real reason is a great one. Practicality is underrated.