February 2012
6 posts
“the current “traditional” computing arrangement of keyboard, mouse,...”
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Designing Gestural Interfaces by Dan Saffer
“Start your first free moments of the day with thoughts of what you really want...”
– http://howells.ws/posts/view/62/start-every-day-as-a-producer-not-a-consumer
“social curation is changing the face of the web”
– http://pieratt.tumblr.com/
“nobody wants to feel like a cog”
– http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/02/what-charlie-sheen-taught-salon-about-being-original/
“If you are easily offended by direct aspersions on your lineage, the...”
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain, Anthony
“The backbone of the business may be steak-frites but our regulars are often...”
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Kitchen Confidential by Bourdain, Anthony
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”