January 2012
6 posts
“The truth of the matter, is that saying I work in advertising sometimes feels...”
– http://www.ideasonideas.com/2012/01/bullshit/
“As a general rule, content takes precedence over navigation on mobile”
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
“books have always been networked; it is us who are becoming networked now”
– http://booktwo.org/notebook/everything-is-the-same-only-different/
“building things just because we can usually doesn’t help our customers”
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Mobile First
“To be a good manager, you have to be a good person”
December 2011
2 posts
“UX design requires good listening skills”
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Storytelling for User Experience
November 2011
3 posts
“In science, if you know what you are doing, you should not be doing it. In...”
– Bret Victor, quoting Richard Hamming
1 tag
Someone Should Build This, vol. 192
UPDATE: looks like someone actually built this : ) Go check https://www.greplin.com/ now (thanks @happywebcoder)
I just spent 20 minutes trying to find a conversation I had some days ago.
19.9 minutes were spent trying to remember the channel I used to have that conversation.
Right now I use:
5 email addresses
Whatsapp
phone (voice)
phone (SMS)
phone (iMessage)
Twitter...
October 2011
4 posts
“Sputnik is a web front end to a document-oriented storage system. It can map...”
– Sputnik: Concepts
Diseñando apps para niños | Blog.Arquinauta.es →
(via Instapaper)
September 2011
4 posts
2 tags
“The way designers work may be inexplicable, not for some romantic or mystical...”
– J. Daley, “Design Creativity and The Understanding of Objects”, Design Studies, Vol. 3, No 3, as cited by Nigel Cross in “Designerly Ways of Knowing”
July 2011
1 post
“The primary values of agile are to quickly deliver functioning software and...”
– Change on a Dime: Agile Design | UX Magazine
June 2011
4 posts
“putting in a sensible amount of effort to order and preserve my photographs is...”
– http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/06/doing-a-good-job.html
“Asking simple questions about obvious things can lead to unexpected answers and...”
– The Art of Design Research (and Why It Matters) - Jon Freach - Life - The Atlantic
“Apple has managed to achieve what I never achieved: using the power of their...”
– Top designer Dieter Rams on what makes Apple special
May 2011
2 posts
“The frame has a new etchingway by Spectrum, in keeping with the Texas state law...”
– Kish Fabrication | Store > NAHBS Award Bike
“We don’t do this stuff for the benefits; we do it because we like solving...”
– A Clean Desk | ideasonideas
April 2011
7 posts
“Don’t get me wrong, I like iconoclastic, swoopy structures that look like...”
– Joe Queenan on the Frank Gehry Glut | Moving Targets - WSJ.com
“I don’t need every customer. I’m primarily in the business of selling a product...”
– Why Instapaper Free is taking an extended vacation – Marco.org
“As antiquated and silly as it may seem, the one-colour 2-by-2-centimeter (yep,...”
– Eurostar Sculpts New Logo - Brand New
The Blood Test Gets a Makeover | Magazine →
“Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly”
– Henry Spencer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stop procrastination: Introducing the noprocrast... →
March 2011
4 posts
Archive, a button for Apple Mail →
This free plugin extends Apple Mail with the archive feature that you know and love from MobileMe and Gmail.
Designers Who Are Technical: The More You Know,... →
Designers Who Are Technical: The More You Know,... →
(via Instapaper)
1 tag
I humbly disagree, vol. 2
Esta semana se ha presentado la nueva imagen corporativa del Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
El trabajo me parece brutal. Teniendo en cuenta el cliente y el target, entra directamente en mi top 5 de mejores identidades corporativas de la historia.
No he podido contenerme y he publicado el link en Twitter.
Y comenta Aitor, en este twit:
Mola la idea, pero me hubiera gustado más si...
February 2011
3 posts
2 tags
I humbly disagree, vol. 1
I have just read this tweet:
Every time someone asks HOW to do sth and receives as answer “What I don’t understand is WHY do you want do this?” a cute rabbit is killed
(by @fguillen, via @porras)
It is a nice excuse to fire up a text editor and ramble : )
Here are some reasons why I think rabbits are safe:
The person asking HOW may not have a good (enough)...
“nowadays we see a lot of fairly uninteresting web apps with very technically...”
– Hacker Chat: Pinboard Creator Maciej Ceglowski Talks About Why Boring Architecture is Good, and More
“I say that flat is the new black; that 2D is the new avant-garde; that a surface...”
– Against Chrome: A Manifesto
January 2011
17 posts
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/20/10122... →
The Fold
Via “Things Real People Don’t Say About Advertising”
Stage 2010, a year in numbers
stagehq:
This has been our first full year operating stagehq.com and it has surpassed all our expectations. Tons of customers, thousands of new users and an increasing pool of recurring events:
We know that we still have to improve a lot of corners in our service and we’re going to work harder than ever in 2011 on our way to becoming the best registration system out there.
Of course,...
“It’s very hard to learn about materials academically, by reading about...”
– Core77 speaks with Jonathan Ive on the design of the iPhone 4: Material Matters - Core77
“If higher screen resolutions are accepted and become the standard, there may be...”
– Some Thoughts On Web Fonts by Yves Peters | The FontFeed
Anatomy of an Apple Email →