February 2010
14 posts
January 2010
14 posts
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The Setup
The Setup is a bunch of nerdy interviews. I’m not (yet) popular enough to be featured there, so I thought I’d post my own version here.
Who are you, and what do you do?
My name is Joshua Kaufman, and I’m an interaction designer at Punchcut, a San Francisco based design firm that focuses on the interface design of mobile and convergent devices. I’m also the community...
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The Twist on Product Design
I recently bought a Twist, the new portable espresso machine from Mypressi. I initially bought it because I love espresso, but I didn’t want to have the permanent footprint of an espresso machine in my kitchen with its limited counter space. The fact that the Twist is completely portable was extremely appealing. But once I started using the Twist, I realized it was so much more than simply a...
This is why it's worth learning about advertising
timoni:
superamit, stammy, rinich:
From Apple.com:
Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.
Bam! That’s their selling point! Somebody gets paid lots of money to write that sentence, and they earn it all, because that sentence will sell several billion of these things.
I don’t know that I agree with the “magic” component rinich mentions...
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The Crux of the Switch
It’s almost hard to imagine Mac OS X without a good application switcher. But previous to OS X 10.3, that was just the case. Back in 2003, I summarized why the previous application switcher was so poor:
To switch the active application in 10.2, you hit Command-Tab and a highlighted dock icon told you which application was selected. It worked, but it had problems. The biggest of which...
Now that's some spam
I feel like I know this guy, but I definitely don’t.
Hello
How you doing? We made a trip to London (United Kingdom) unannounced some days back, Unfortunately we got mugged at gun point last night! All cash, Credit card and phone were stolen, we got messed up in another country, stranded in London, fortunately passport was back in my hotel room. It was a bitter experience and i was hurt...
DIY, Pt. II
mrgan:
I know where the analogy fails: publishing a work should, perhaps, require a little more responsibility, a few more barriers to entry. It’s done less frequently. You stand to make money. It’s meant for the whole world. It’s serious business.
But it would still be really great if you could do it yourself.
I’m in complete agreement with Neven here, and Gruber chimed in with similar...
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Deactivating Facebook
My one resolution for 2010 is to only do things that feel good and right. Last night, as part of that resolution I deactivated my Facebook account. It wasn’t an action I took lightly, but it was something that I felt like I needed to do.
By the end of 2009, I was making several visits to Facebook a day. I’d have a moment of downtime during lunch, in between meetings, after dinner or...
