Posts tagged with Thoughts
The Importance of Degradation
I never caught onto Pandora/Last.fm/Spotify online music craze. A combination of: * a lack of connectivity (commuting on the BART), * quizzical music tastes (with a soft spot for Asian pop), and * a obsessive tendency to listen to the…
It's a User Interface, not a Feature Interface
Designed by engineers. It invokes visions of legacy Windows programs, burdened by buttons and menus and dropdowns consisting of all its features and devoid of aesthetic pretense. It is undeniably and unabashedly functional, yet is barely understandable and nigh unusable…
Don't Build for a Bubble
I heard we're in a tech bubble. People have been calling our industry a bubble ever since angels and VCs started putting in a few extra bucks when that entire housing thing turned sour. Well, if the sign…
The Luxury of Simple
I've been spending the past fews days helping my parents unpack after their first move in over a dozen years. On top of the weekend I spent over Thanksgiving moving out of my old room and the subsequent…
Mobile First
I was at the Event Apart conference today, sitting amongst design and front end web geeks trying to take in lessons from what passes as celebrity in our circles. A lot of it is highfalutin philosophies and principles (in contrast,…
From the Armchair
I came across this article yesterday, provocatively titled "If Everyone Else is Such an Idiot, How Come You're Not Rich?". She makes a few good points: armchair generals point out the obvious, company leaders have to…
