March 2011
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November 2010
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May 2010
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Come party with Lady Gaga (Times of London) →
A journalist’s hilarious, epic account of her night out in Berlin with you-know-who.
(via Instapaper)
April 2010
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Google's unorthodox press release forces Reuters... →
Instead of releasing its latest earnings statement as part of a press release, Google issued a 3-sentence statement directing interested parties to its Investor Relations website, where the full statement was available. Apparently, according to Reuters, this presented an “obstacle” to journalists and investors — people who are too stupid or lazy to type in a short URL.
Naturally,...
March 2010
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Instapaper on iPad (squee!)
My favorite iPhone app, Instapaper, is about to get a lot bigger.
It was a chicken-and-egg thing for me: I’m resistant to buying a tablet device without an amazing reader; but who is going to develop something excellent for a platform that doesn’t exist yet? But as Instapaper’s developer points out, “an iPad without native Instapaper Pro is not a device I want to...
February 2010
3 posts
WatchMust watch: Jesse Schell — game designer and CMU professor — discusses game design outside the box at DICE 2010.
Apple's bet
stevenf:
[Apple’s] bet is roughly that the future of computing:
has a UI model based on direct manipulation of data objects
completely hides the filesystem from the user
favors ease of use and reduction of complexity over absolute flexibility
favors benefit to the end-user rather than the developer or other vendors
lives atop built-to-specific-purpose native applications and...
January 2010
3 posts
The orchid hypothesis →
Fascinating story in The Atlantic asks: “Do children who suffer most from bad environments also profit the most from good ones?”
November 2009
6 posts
October 2009
11 posts
“I’m going to skip right to the heart of what I want to say about this city: if...”
– Twitter’s Alex Payne (@al3x) nails why San Francisco just ain’t what it’s cracked up to be.
“Austin didn’t know what to wear to his first gay dance last spring. It was bad...”
– I love this story. Coming Out in Middle School (NYTimes.com)
“Seen in that light, what’s needed for a non-profit news plan to work isn’t an...”
– Rescuing The Reporters: Clay Shirky on the necessity of turning newspapers into nonprofit news-gathering organizations.
September 2009
6 posts
Art Ferrante, Pop Pianist in Famed Duo, Dies at 88 →
Another Times obit today for another space-age legend. My dad loved easy-listening music, so the local easy-listening FM station was always his first choice in the car or the living room (usually both). Montovani, the 101 Strings, and Ferrante & Teicher comprised much of the soundtrack of my early childhood.
WatchPerformed by the mass band of the Lesbian & Gay Band Association. The LGBA’s 2009 conference was held in New Orleans, coinciding with Southern Decadence. Here they march in the Southern Decadence Parade on Sunday, September 6.
August 2009
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Essential characteristics of good UX designers
This sounds about right, though I’d change some of the qualifying adjectives (e.g., “deep understanding” in #1 is overkill, “moderate familiarity” in #5 is too weak).
A Deep Understanding of Human Psychology & Research Methods
Competence in the Basics of Graphic Design
An Awareness of and Interest in Technology
Verbal & Visual Communication Skills
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mejoe:
Pianist Sergio Godínez performs a read...
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The NetFlix culture: "Freedom & Responsibility"
CultureView more presentations from reed2001.
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Realizations of Rounded Rectangles →
July 2009
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IDEO: Human-Centered Design Toolkit →
Worth a look.