Claude Shannon once told me that as a kid, he remembered being stuck on a jigsaw puzzle. His brother, who was passing by, said to him: `You know: I could tell…
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via ted.com See Robert Full’s talk, http://bit.ly/cDaNmd, for a harder science take on the same theme. Posted via web from Aneesh’s posterous
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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Simpler products are easier to maintain and…
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via wardshelley.com data + stylized rendering is the new way to make copy beautiful. see Ward Shelley’s gallery for more. Posted via web from Aneesh’s posterous
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Chrome was misbehaving, so I decided to purge the cache. I got the run-of-the-mill dialog you see above…But then it made me smile. I wasn’t merely going to delete my…
Nowadays, everyone in product marketing wants an “intuitive” interface. The problem is, the word “intuitive” is fuzzy. If we’re not careful, “intuitive” is just jargon for “good.” How can designers…
In signs, one sees an advantage for discovery that is greatest when they express the exact nature of a thing briefly and, as it were, picture it; then, indeed, the…
i can’t count the number of times that people have noticed my five finger shoes and struck up a conversation to learn more. i’ve had people ask to touch them—this…
Wired and Adobe have a compelling vision of print media gone digital. My take-aways from the video: Designers can influence with smoke and mirrors – Wired and Adobe didn’t have…
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html when i was at microsoft, i was struck by a whole that was less than the sum of its parts. the company is full of brilliant, passionate people, and…
here’s a fantastic article on the cognitive fluency and disfluency and its behavioral effects. fluency is just a fancy measure of how easy or hard something is. to grab your…
why carry 10,000 tunes in your pocket when you can hold 2 pood in your hand? 1, 2, and 3 pood models now available in five colors.
Design, as I see it, is an attempt to harmonize the visual appearance with the inner content. Hence, the best design is not what looks the best, but what reflects…
the internet is tomorrow’s operating system. services and data will increasingly migrate to the cloud; real-time rendering will follow. but client-side hardware isn’t dead yet. it’ll be around until and…
When a volume setting of 10 just will not do, you design the door to 11—a hitherto unexperienced level of performance. This is one place in experience design where convenience…
solving the problems of the world’s poorest people, the so-called “bottom of the pyramid,” nets innovation for the whole planet. so argues c.k. prahalad in an interview at wharton. shneiderman…
clisp is a nifty LISP interpreter for mac. here’s how you can get it to install on os x: install apple’s developer tools grab a copy of fink open Terminal…