This might be helpful too, a very good book on the basics: http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Grammar-Design-Briefs-Christian...
I can understand feeling frustrated, but it's a little unfair on yourself. Most designers hone their ability through constant application of their skill, not to mention very often years of expensive schooling. Nobody…
> there's an awkward separation between high culture and popular culture, mostly based on how old something is. That's an interesting notion that may prove true in the future, but a few exceptions aside, I don't…
> Flash does absolutely nothing to prevent someone from saving copies of images. This is only true if Flash is loading external jpegs. If they're embedded in a swf, you would have to go through a great deal more…
I was left wondering why didn't he just export his mailbox. Or add his GMail account to Mail.app and just drag and drop his old inbox into his new Google inbox. There is absolutely no 'lock-in' with Apple's Mail client.…
But I'd wager that most Lion users have a pointing device that enables easy scrolling: a trackpad, magic mouse, magic trackpad, or a mouse with a scroll wheel.
Your wish has been granted. There's a full text transcript here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-re...
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I now see that there are a number of parallels—but I still think the contrasts are more striking. First of all, Eric Schmidt did an excellent job. In 2011, Page inherited a that is…
What are the similarities in position between Jobs/Apple in 1997 and Page/Google now?
While you make a valid point, I also think the parent post might have been also making a different one. It's not so much whether these markets existed prior, but that Google is entering these markets with vastly more…
Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for whom to consider including in…
I can't resist plugging audiotool: http://www.audiotool.com/ It's flash, but it's mind blowingly amazing.
From the Lifehacker review: > It's also worth noting that they're looking to crack down on piracy, so depending on how well it works and how much of your music is illegal, that could be a deal killer for some. This…
This and the picture of a laptop in a slide during the Ice Cream announcement made me wonder if this means Android is coming to the laptop form factor, and/or other 'PC' form factors. Certainly would be interesting.
Ease of deployment might be why this very blog post is published on Wordpress.
Jason Fried has a great piece on this idea: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/575-but-theres-only-so-many-w...
To me it makes perfect sense. For many people, web browsers have very little to differentiate them. Chrome's single major differentiator is that it's fast. If you asked the average person what's different about Chrome—…
While the article raises some valid points, I question the use of compete.com figures to make any claims about foursquare's declining traffic.
This is an older but relevant post from a former Google designer: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html More anecdotally, I find that the best design and illustration I've seen from Google is…
I love the line, 'you can't commoditize good design.' I just want to read it over and over. Design has been so further commoditized in recent years, it's a wonderful reminder that design is much more than application of…
I agree that the author's points are purely speculative, but the situation kind of demands speculation, since the official answer was very unsatisfying. The tablet market somehow seems more competitive than mobile is…
>200 engineers and 50 in 'overhead' (designers, marketing etc.) Is this a deliberate attempt to troll or are designers nothing but overhead? Poor design, particularly poor interface design, is considered a major…
The Apple board reduced Steve Jobs's role at Apple to ceremonial/figurehead. Steve Jobs actually resigned from Apple. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
I started using SRWare Iron, which is like a more tinfoil version of Chromium, for this reason.
Because it's a usurpation of my role as the administrator of my system. Because it necessitates a level of comfort with a company—whose business model is based on collecting and selling user data—rooting my system, and…
This might be helpful too, a very good book on the basics: http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Grammar-Design-Briefs-Christian...
I can understand feeling frustrated, but it's a little unfair on yourself. Most designers hone their ability through constant application of their skill, not to mention very often years of expensive schooling. Nobody…
> there's an awkward separation between high culture and popular culture, mostly based on how old something is. That's an interesting notion that may prove true in the future, but a few exceptions aside, I don't…
> Flash does absolutely nothing to prevent someone from saving copies of images. This is only true if Flash is loading external jpegs. If they're embedded in a swf, you would have to go through a great deal more…
I was left wondering why didn't he just export his mailbox. Or add his GMail account to Mail.app and just drag and drop his old inbox into his new Google inbox. There is absolutely no 'lock-in' with Apple's Mail client.…
But I'd wager that most Lion users have a pointing device that enables easy scrolling: a trackpad, magic mouse, magic trackpad, or a mouse with a scroll wheel.
Your wish has been granted. There's a full text transcript here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-re...
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I now see that there are a number of parallels—but I still think the contrasts are more striking. First of all, Eric Schmidt did an excellent job. In 2011, Page inherited a that is…
What are the similarities in position between Jobs/Apple in 1997 and Page/Google now?
While you make a valid point, I also think the parent post might have been also making a different one. It's not so much whether these markets existed prior, but that Google is entering these markets with vastly more…
Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for whom to consider including in…
I can't resist plugging audiotool: http://www.audiotool.com/ It's flash, but it's mind blowingly amazing.
From the Lifehacker review: > It's also worth noting that they're looking to crack down on piracy, so depending on how well it works and how much of your music is illegal, that could be a deal killer for some. This…
This and the picture of a laptop in a slide during the Ice Cream announcement made me wonder if this means Android is coming to the laptop form factor, and/or other 'PC' form factors. Certainly would be interesting.
Ease of deployment might be why this very blog post is published on Wordpress.
Jason Fried has a great piece on this idea: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/575-but-theres-only-so-many-w...
To me it makes perfect sense. For many people, web browsers have very little to differentiate them. Chrome's single major differentiator is that it's fast. If you asked the average person what's different about Chrome—…
While the article raises some valid points, I question the use of compete.com figures to make any claims about foursquare's declining traffic.
This is an older but relevant post from a former Google designer: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html More anecdotally, I find that the best design and illustration I've seen from Google is…
I love the line, 'you can't commoditize good design.' I just want to read it over and over. Design has been so further commoditized in recent years, it's a wonderful reminder that design is much more than application of…
I agree that the author's points are purely speculative, but the situation kind of demands speculation, since the official answer was very unsatisfying. The tablet market somehow seems more competitive than mobile is…
>200 engineers and 50 in 'overhead' (designers, marketing etc.) Is this a deliberate attempt to troll or are designers nothing but overhead? Poor design, particularly poor interface design, is considered a major…
The Apple board reduced Steve Jobs's role at Apple to ceremonial/figurehead. Steve Jobs actually resigned from Apple. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
I started using SRWare Iron, which is like a more tinfoil version of Chromium, for this reason.
Because it's a usurpation of my role as the administrator of my system. Because it necessitates a level of comfort with a company—whose business model is based on collecting and selling user data—rooting my system, and…