February 2012
13 posts
Social Media UX Guidelines (Free report, Nielsen... →
“Get inspired by a particular poet, film-maker, sculptor, composer. You will...”
– 14 years ago: the day Teller gave me the secret to my career in magic. — shwood.squarespace.com — Readability
“The winners…are individuals and organizations that create communities,...”
– Seth’s Blog — sethgodin.typepad.com — Readability
“If you wake up thinking that you have to scale, you end up codifying a process....”
– Wanna Be A Game Changer? Here’s How You Should Rethink Your Branding — www.fastcodesign.com — Readability
“On finding your passion: Don’t focus on what you want to do, instead, ask...”
– Paul Pedrazzi (massively influenced by Kathy Sierra’s idea of helping people be awesome)
Start Developing iOS Apps Today: Introduction →
via Techmeme
TinyLetter - Send email newsletters for free →
Well done.
Basecamp Next: The goodbye list and the hello list... →
How do you not love these guys?
10 Tips on Writing from David Ogilvy | Brain... →
Microsoft unveils Office 15 Metro design look and... →
Love what competition can do…
WatchWolfram Alpha Pro is a screaming deal!
“Just about every time I’ve seen a big transition go wrong in this business it’s...”
– SaaS: Change starts easy and then gets really hard - (37signals)
January 2012
20 posts
The Greatest Books of All Time, As Voted by 125... →
Pasta, Not Bacon, Makes You Fat. But How? |... →
“The details are not details. They make the product. The connections, the...”
– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_and_Ray_Eames
Airbnb's Global Growth Infographic →
#Infoporn
100 Best Novels « Modern Library →
The 100 best!
“But now we’re in Amazon’s sights, and they’re going to kill us.”
– Confessions of a Publisher: “We’re in Amazon’s Sights and They’re Going to Kill Us” | PandoDaily
“Simply having to take the wristband off, uncap the end piece, plug it into your...”
– The Jawbone UP Fails, But Teaches 3 Golden Rules For Experience Design | Co.Design
“they insisted the world change in their favor, as opposed to embracing the...”
– The Domino Project
“If you build something for the sake of being able to say that you have it, it’s...”
– Modern Principles in Web Development | Atlassian Blogs
“comparison is how people make decisions.”
– Designing for the Next Step « « Bokardo Bokardo — bokardo.com — Readability
Defend our freedom to share (or why SOPA is a bad... →
Clay is an icon. #StopSOPA
“We need to build something that never gets in the way of our users doing what...”
– Design Sets Tone at Square, a Mobile Payments Start-Up - NYTimes.com
“When I give a draft of an essay to friends, there are two things I want to know:...”
– The Age of the Essay — paulgraham.com — Readability
“the vast majority of customers are willing to pay if the product is widely...”
– Tim O’Reilly: Why I’m fighting SOPA — Tech News and Analysis
“Roger Bannister was remarkable. The next guy, the guy who broke...”
– Seth’s Blog: How to be remarkable
What do you hate not doing? | Derek Sivers →
More Sivers Gold!
Instagram: Share Bigger Photos to Your Facebook... →
instagram:
Starting today, when you choose to share Instagram photos to Facebook, your images will automatically be added to an “Instagram Photos” Facebook album visible to your Facebook friends!
The photos will appear full-sized in the News Feed along with the caption that you’ve added to the…
“You can’t fully judge a design until you’ve tried it in action. The clothes...”
– The Documentation Dilemma - (37signals)
December 2011
14 posts
2 tags
Reads: Do The Work
ONE LINE REVIEW:
“If you need a kick in the butt to start your project, this is a good read, but The War of Art is better.”
HIGHLIGHTS
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our lower. Any of these acts will elicit...
Louis CK’s digital distribution experiment clears... →
How can you not love this guy?
“With really good people all that matters is the work. They all know that.”
– LukeW | Quotes from Steve Jobs Lost Interview
Marc Andreessen on Why Software Is Eating the... →
From a few months back, but still a great read.
“Whether it’s a restaurant or hairdresser or day care center or yoga center...”
– Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) — news.cnet.com — Readability
On Amazon, Apple, and common excuses for bad... →
“al drug use among teens in Portugal declined and rates of new HIV infections...”
– Time to end the war on drugs - Richard’s Blog - Virgin.com
yongfook: Design is Horseshit! →
yongfook:
In direct response to: http://designerfund.com/infographic
I’ve created products / services in the past that have garnered praise for their design. I love good design in all forms - copywriting in particular fascinates me. I’ve never called myself a designer.
Here’s my pitch. This…
November 2011
7 posts
The Obvious, the Easy, and the Possible -... →
‘Twine’ Foreshadows A Future Where All Objects... →
Love this!
“There are domains in which expertise is not possible. Stock picking is a good...”
– 10 Questions for Daniel Kahneman - TIME