February 2012
2 posts
“When you are solving a difficult problem re-ask the problem so that your...”
– You Are Solving The Wrong Problem « Aza on Design
“* AI - There are many varieties of artificial intelligence, and no formal...”
– The Technium: The Next Transitions in the Technium
January 2012
1 post
December 2011
10 posts
“Normally when people think of ‘creating’ or ‘innovation’ they think of a naked...”
– http://blog.davidtate.org/2011/12/the-dangerous-effects-of-reading/
WatchThe New Aesthetic: Waving at the Machines
“the future of computing is here and just needs someone, or several someones, to...”
– Mark Rolston, creative officer at frog, speaking at the GigaOM RoadMap conference in San Francisco
“Amazon slogan: “Work hard, have fun, make history.”
““We must constantly look at things in a different way. Just when you think you...”
“In the old days once you bought something that was what you got for the lifetime...”
October 2011
7 posts
“We’re moving toward a world where our identities will be meticulously,...”
– Hide from the Digital World—At Your Own Risk | Institute For The Future
“1. Small is beautiful.
2. Make each program do one thing well.
3. Build a...”
– Unix philosophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“I asked Steve why he thought it was good, and he told me his theory for a name...”
– Stephen Wolfram Blog : Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
“Steve said, “Isaac Newton didn’t have back-cover quotes; why do you want them?”
– Stephen Wolfram Blog : Steve Jobs: A Few Memories
The Real Zack Morris: The State of the Art is... →
zackarymorris:
I stumbled onto this post the other day through Hacker News. Basically Ryan Dahl (the guy who wrote node.js, a web framework that makes running web servers easy with javascript) called out the deplorable state of software today.
I fully agree with him.
And here’s why - I’ve seen…
“The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the...”
– The Rise of “Worse is Better” by Richard Gabriel
September 2011
4 posts
WatchDon’t Play Games With Me! Promises and Pitfalls of Gameful Design
WatchMeaningful Play. Getting »Gamification« Right.
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Long After the Thrill: Sustaining Passionate Users
August 2011
2 posts
10 tags
“Whenever you listen to a piece of music, what you are actually doing is hearing...”
– Brian Eno, in conversation with David Mitchell, The Believer (When asked, “Do you agree that no new genre is ever invented, but rather hybridised from something that was there before?” Eno answers: “Yes. Nothing starts from nowhere.”)
“I cannot understand why human beings should be so little individualized, why...”
– Salvador Dalí on Decadence, Death and Immortality: The 1958 Interview | Brain Pickings
July 2011
5 posts
“The most productive people rarely have more than 6 hours or so of really...”
– Paul Graham
“Here’s the secret that every successful software company is based on: You...”
– How Software Companies Die
June 2011
13 posts
WatchThings Left Unshared by @paulisakson
Y Combinator's Graham Says Startups Must Improve... →
WatchJack Dorsey by Wired UK
Icon’s “Rethink”: turning receipts into ‘paper... →
We’ve added semi-useful info-visualisation of the foods ordered based on “what the till knows” – sparklines, trends – and low-tech personalisation of information that might be useful to regulars. Customers can select events or news stories they are interested in by ticking a check box.
We think the humble receipt could be something like a paper “app” and be valuable in small and playful ways.
Approaching Data with a Beginner’s Mind | UX... →
Agile eLearning » Industrial Logic's Greatest Hits... →
Horizontal slicing, once thought to be non-Agile, is useful for accelerated learning and the incremental delivery of vertical slices.
Troy Hunt: A brief Sony password analysis →
Sony stored over 1,000,000 passwords of its customers in plaintext
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“Most successful young people don’t look inside and then plan a life. They look...”
– It’s Not About You
May 2011
13 posts
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One-Third of Android, iPhone Apps Engaged Before... →
According to the intriguing findings of a new survey by Ericsson, 35% of Android and iPhone owners use one or more of their mobile applications before getting out of bed in the morning.
What are the underlying reasons for "The Patterson... →
Arthur Patterson, cofounder of Accel Partners, postulated that the tech industry follows approximately 14 year cycles - 8 years of growth and 6 years of “retrenchment”. Apparently, this pattern has held up since the 1960s. Most likely the current cycle began in 2000/2001 (6 retrenchment years) and will last until 2014. The best time for VC returns are supposedly at the end of the cycle...
52 Weeks of UX →
A discourse on the process of designing for real people.
Publicity and the Culture of Celebritization →
Widespread celebritization is the flipside of the “attention economy” coin and I think that we have a lot of deep thinking to do about the implications of both of these. Both are already rattling society in unexpected ways and I’m not convinced that we have the social, psychological, or cultural infrastructure to manage what will unfold. Some people will become famous or rich. Others will commit...