December 2009
17 posts
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Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 26th
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“The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It...”
– George Carlin (via nazgum)
Dec 23rd
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“The digital world, even the high end brands, has become a sleazy carnival,...”
– Seth Godin This is a huge part of consumers’ erosion of trust in technology. (via marco)
Dec 22nd
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Stop setting the focus on the search field
When your website’s content is so long that you expect most of your users will have to scroll to read/see the whole page and you have a search field (or other textfield) on that page, please stop setting the focus on that. It’s just annoying when you read an article and can’t use the keyboard to scroll without having to click on some ‘non-clickable’ area first. In...
Dec 22nd
“We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when...”
– Albert Einstein (via mattonrails) (via nazgum)
Dec 17th
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Dec 16th
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“It seems strange to have to emphasize simplicity. You’d think simple would be...”
– Paul Graham in Taste for Makers (via Harry Brignull)
Dec 10th
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Dec 8th
“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only...”
– Francis Bacon (via The Unbelievable World of Snowflakes)
Dec 8th
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“In my experience, it has been a real challenge to convey how much longer a...”
– Kristee Rosendahl in the same article I linked to earlier.
Dec 7th
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“[Steve Jobs] is a design dictator of the company. And it’s fortunate for Apple...”
– David Shen, who hopefully won’t mind that I’ve edited this a bit for punctuation and capitalization. (via marco) Make sure you read the whole article.
Dec 7th
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“Apple’s goal isn’t to make money. Our goal is to design and develop and bring to...”
– Jonathan Ive (via Andy Budd) (via nikf)
Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“I have only ever designed products that I myself would like to live with so it...”
– Dieter Rams in Simplicity, purity and openness. (via 37signals)
Dec 1st
November 2009
12 posts
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Last weekend, I tried out an iPod touch for the first time - and had one of those (rare) moments when software makes me smile… One of the things I wanted try was the software keyboard. So I went to Twitter and produced a short tweet. While typing, I quickly noticed that there’s no dot (.) amongst the visible keys. “Well”, I thought, “they wouldn’t have just...
Nov 30th