January 2010
60 posts
“Here is a hint. If you want to see more jobs created by Small Businesses and...”
– The Simplicity Test: A Simple Policy Guide for Job Growth « blog maverick (via @jasonfried)
“Design for yourself fast. You shouldn’t need to think about what you want, you...”
– Alana Twelmeyer on designing for yourself. (via esbueno)
“Is a stick shift better than an automatic? No. Is an automatic better than a...”
– stevenf.com - I need to talk to you about computers
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– Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via @hf_j)
“Compared to my laptop, the iPad lacks a keyboard, software development tools,...”
– ongoing by Tim Bray · Nothing Creative
“There’s an inherent benefit to only doing one thing at a time: the load of...”
– furbo.org · iPad liberation
“Product and process go together, and the process that works on the web is...”
– Two visions alike in dignity « Snarkmarket
“Even if they don’t choose to get in bed with Apple, video game publishers...”
– Why the Apple Tablet Is a Games Changer | Design 4 Impact | Fast Company
“I can’t tell you how many pitches I’ve heard about how some new company is going...”
– Derek Powazek - What I Hope Apple Unleashes Tomorrow
“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched...”
– The “Iterate Fast and Release Often” Philosophy of Entrepreneurship : Technology :: American Express OPEN Forum
WatchFontFriend Screencast on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchIndexing UI Sketches in Evernote on Vimeo (via @thody)
“If you want to change people, you must create enough leverage to encourage the...”
– Seth’s Blog: Why write a book?
“We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and...”
– Tim Cook on Apple using Flash on the iPhone from Apple, Adobe, and Flash from Daring Fireball
“If you announce a good idea a year before you can implement it, you had better...”
– Matt Deatherage, with an excellent point that I’d say is also critically important for the iPhone’s success now that there are some “good enough” Android smartphones for Verizon’s network. (via marco)
“I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client...”
– Saul Bass (via davidkaneda) (via marco)
“Experience, in the end, cannot be captured in a deliverable.”
– Deliverables vs. Delivery - 52 Weeks of UX
“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s...”
– Conan O’Brien on his final show (37signals)
“Posterous is an engineered product, while Tumblr is a designed product.”
– Why Tumblr is kicking Posterous’s ass « PEG on Tech /via @bobulate
“Less dependency on data, as he says, can yield an emotional connection.”
– On data dependency - Bobulate
“We are no longer just consumers of content, we have become curators of it too.”
– ‘Controlled Serendipity’ Liberates the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
The brick approach →
bobulate:
Unexpected wisdom from Will Smith talking with Charlie Rose on approaching tasks:
You don’t set out to build a wall. You don’t say I’m going to build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that’s every been built. You don’t start there. You say I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid. …. You do that every single day, and soon you have a wall. (~23:00)
I’ve...
Pen v keyboard v Newton v Graffiti v Treo v iPhone →
“The fact that Apple does not reveal prototypes but shipping products is the...”
– The Secret to Apple’s Magic
“Do something compelling. There’s a trillion people writing blogs that need...”
– Frank Chimero (via marco)
Google is your new mom →
WatchJared Spool on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
WatchLog Driver’s Waltz by John Weldon - NFB
WatchSteve Krug on the least you can do about usability
“Consumers are too smart for the frames. It’s the in-between frame stuff...”
– Seth’s Blog: In between frames
“The goal shouldn’t be to have a lot of people to yell at, the goal...”
– Seth’s Blog: Bullhorns are overrated
“Congratulations, Conan, on finally securing your place as permanent host of The...”
– Norm Macdonald, in his congratulations card to Conan from June, 2009, which he forgot to give Conan until tonight (via maniacalrage)
“The secret to creativity is curiosity.
We often forget to teach kids to be...”
– Seth’s Blog: Why ask why?