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View ArticleMeetings Are A Skill You Can Master, And Steve Jobs Taught Me How
This is our second excerpt from Insanely Simple: The Obsession That Drives Apple’s Success by Ken Segall, a close collaborator with Jobs for over a decade. To read the first, on how the iMac was almost...
View ArticleOctofeed Puts A Slicker Skin On Facebook, Hinting At Big Missed Opportunities...
Thus was born Octofeed, a website that pulls the particulars of your Facebook page and organizes them into a neat, unapologetically stylish two-column feed. Gone is the lefthand sidebar, with the...
View ArticleDesigners Behind Facebook Timeline: 5 Keys To Creating A UI With Soul
For most of computing history, interfaces have been about function. Word processing programs help you compose documents. Banking websites help you make transactions. Sites like Flickr help you display...
View ArticleFjord Kitchen SF: Creating Services for the Invisible Interface
Last night, we held our inaugural Fjord Kitchen event in San Francisco on “Creating Services for the Invisible Interface,” hosted in partnership with IxDA as part of SF Design Week. Moderated by Chris...
View ArticleIs This The Evolution Of iPhone’s UI We All Hoped For?
This week, Apple shared a lot of new features for OSX and iOS. Some were great, others not so much. And if there’s one thing that we’re particularly worried about, it’s the ever-bloating Notification...
View ArticleThe Design of Information and Weather Data
Fast Company magazine recently featured this beautiful rendition of the ocean’s currents on their blog. It was put together by the visualization geniuses at NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio and...
View ArticleDatasets changing mindsets
Hans Rosling is an entertaining and compelling presenter. He uses the now-Google-owned Public Data Explorer technology (developed by his organization Gapminder), to take you on a journey testing your...
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Designing for Unnatural Selection: Bionic Bunny Ears for Bengal Tigers?
I attended a Cooper Parlor event, and enjoyed every minute. Prefabitats for polar bears? A jet pack for pandas? Bionic bunny ears for Bengal tigers? It’s amazing how much ingenuity 55 people can...
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The Future Of UX Design: Tiny, Humanizing Details
Dan Saffer, like many designers, likes to quote Charles Eames. But unlike many designers, Saffer–Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design–wrote a whole book inspired by one of his favorite Eames...
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