October 2009
46 posts
WatchThe “Batman” is my hero right now. I can only hope that I spook as many people this Halloween.
“The promise of the Kindle is that you can buy and read books any where at all —...”
– Tim Carmody
1 tag
“I dwell in possibility.”
– Emily Dickinson (via shoelessjane)
“What if we could eliminate noise and give our brains space to do harder work or...”
– Michael Angeles
“The words in your brain are not written in a correct way. So, why should you...”
– Dogma 2000
“The user experience mindset is an acquired condition for which there is no cure.”
– Jesse James Garrett at UX Week
“Standing before you is the tall wiry figure of Gashlycrumb. First catching your...”
– unraveled (just for fun)
Blogging vs. Conversation on Tumblr
timoni:
Tumblr is an awesome platform—I moved my entire blog on here; that’s how awesome it is—but it’s remarkably bad for carrying on conversations, particularly with the reblog tool.
Here’s a sad example of somebody trying hard using the reblog function. There’s definitely a desire to have conversations on Tumblr (not just answers to questions), so: there needs to be a way to elegantly carry...
“According to reports by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. and...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
1 tag
“Something is elegant if it is two things at once: unusually simple and...”
– Matthew E. May
Dieter Rams’ ten principles to “good design"
Good design is innovative
Good design makes a product useful
Good design is aesthetic
Good design helps us to understand a product
Good design is unobtrusive
Good design is honest
Good design is durable
Good design is consequent to the last detail
Good design is concerned with the environment
Good design is as little design as possible
- Dieter Rams, Wikipedia
