Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
August 27, 2011
design / ipad / typography / usability
Some older, initial impressions of design for the iPad. I’m working to create a collection of these, and am tracking down the ones I didn’t save when I first read them.
August 27, 2011
First, the paper magazine was crammed into the little iPad frame. In form of a PNG slide show. To compensate for the lack of interactive logic, this pretty package was provided with a fruity navigation. In the end it was spiced with in-app links, plucked with a couple of movies and salted with audio files (‘interactive’). Then it was off to marketing.
August 25, 2011
design / design studio / product design / user experience
The early stages of product innovation can crucially influence the success and direction of any product. Yet these stages tend to be fuzzy, highly politicized, and under-documented. This article is a high-level overview of how teams can use Design Studio to explore opportunities and innovate products to better serve customers needs.
August 25, 2011
There’s just so much science, nature, music, arts, technology, storytelling and assorted good stuff out there that my kids (and maybe your kids) haven’t seen. It’s most likely not stuff that was made for them… But we don’t underestimate kids around here.
August 25, 2011
This examines ways that symbolic actions in the vein of the Old Testament prophets could be done today, to confront the violence of captivity and poverty. This is a necessary conversation, as it is hard to think of actions that would be meaningful in our context. I don’t think all of these would, but that’s not the point – it’s a start.
August 24, 2011
In this awful world where the efforts of caring people often pale in comparison to what is done by those who have power, how do I manage to stay involved and seemingly happy? I am totally confident not that the world will get better, but that we should not give up the game before all the cards have been played. The metaphor is deliberate; life is a gamble. Not to play is to foreclose any chance of winning.
August 24, 2011
The hard currency of the Internet is ‘Social Objects’. i.e. Social Objects for people to SHARE MEANINGFULLY with other people. You’re either creating them or you’re not. And if you’re not, you will fail, end of story.
August 20, 2011
Kester Brewin continues his theological musings on pirates.
The skull and crossed bones does not mean ‘we are bringing you death’; rather it announces ‘we are the dead.’ We, the shat-on, the abused, the flogged, the ones you treated as less than human, have escaped your power, have slipped away from the identity you foisted onto us. We, the ones who you took for dead, are returning as the dead – and thus totally free of all fear, totally free of all human labels or classifications or ranks.”
August 18, 2011
css / design / responsive design
A grid system for use with responsive layouts.
August 15, 2011
business / social media / user experience
The key to understanding (and ultimately benefitting from) true ‘customer loyalty’ is to recognize and respect that customers–as people– are deeply loyal to themselves and those they love, but not to products and brands. They are loyal to their own values and the (relatively few) people and causes they truly believe in. What looks and feels like loyalty to a product, brand, company, etc. is driven by what that product, service, brand says about who we are and what we value.