May 2012
1 post
Products are people
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter
April 2012
3 posts
Don’t be carefree and foolish with your most precious asset — life.
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks
So I have to fit this in here, because it bears repeating: PHP is a community of...
– http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
I, too, have a pet little evil, to which in more passionate moments I am apt to...
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt
March 2012
10 posts
Writing books and offering high-level consulting advice is easy. Running a...
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Seven Strategy Questions by Robert Simons
the way to do really big things seems to be to start with deceptively small...
– Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
Don’t worry if something you want to do will constrain you in the long term,...
– Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas
We forget that businesses are just collections of people
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter
If we want to achieve long-term remarkability, we need to build in long-term...
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter
reduction is the best layout approach available to you on mobile
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
Devices are different not just because they have different technical...
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
a study comparing empty forms on mobile to pre-filled forms that only required...
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
February 2012
8 posts
You’re fat, lazy, and not getting enough sleep. At least that’s what...
– http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/6/2541783/jawbone-up-review
NUI principles—such as make content the user interface; enable direct...
– Highlighted by Ale Muñoz in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
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