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Re:Can we please move past Apple's silly faux-real UIs? on Wednesday May 30, 2012 @03:29PM (#4044409)
Personally, the iPad book reading experience drives me crazy. The frills are utterly maddening, and the pointless detailing seems amateur-hour. Reminds me of the old Microsoft, where they used to tell designers that every portion of a screen had to have "information"--so they dinged a project made for their retail stores by a buddy of mine who created an animation of a shark coming through pitch-black water. So they made it blue and ripply instead.
Re:Want Breakthrough Ideas? First, Listen To The Freaks And Geeks on Thursday April 12, 2012 @01:08PM (#3833265)
A smart take on alternative consumer research. As the author points out, researching with normals almost killed the Walkman. I wonder: Does anyone know other companies that do this?
Re:Disgruntled Ex-Googlers Rethink The Way Gmail Works, With Fluent.io on Thursday March 22, 2012 @07:38AM (#3739280)
Funny to think that Wave actually did have smart things about it. Way too complicated though. This is better.
Re:Designers Behind Facebook Timeline: Keys To Creating A UI With Soul on Tuesday December 20, 2011 @02:54PM (#3374859)
I'm actually pretty impressed by the clarity and design--and I say that as someone who thinks Facebook's design has always been shit. I think Felton really is making his presence felt over there.

Bloom's Vision For Computer Interfaces: Worlds, Not Windows

Posted by cliffkuang on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @10:03AM
from the fastcodesign.com dept.

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1663913/blooms-vision-for-computer-interfaces-worlds-not-windows

When you want to curl up with a novel, you don't "access your home library interface," you peruse the bookshelf. Why can't personal data be like that -- part of an intuitive, explorable world, rather than abstract layers of "interface"?

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Re:MIT's Media Lab's new logo has 40,000 permutations [video] on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @11:27AM (#2305318)
For another good example of a kinectic logo that works, check out this:

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662367/wolf-olins-creates-a-mov...

and this: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1662139/pentagrams-luke-hayman-o...

Re:Tiny Apartment Made with 25,000 Ping Pong Balls - and Cheaper on Monday January 24, 2011 @11:58AM (#2135670)
One response on Twitter: Too bad there isn't room for a ping pong table.
Re:Why the Kids Don't Blog and Grandma's on Facebook on Thursday December 16, 2010 @09:57AM (#2012199)
Funny how the internet is slowly transforming to just pointing and saying "Wow!"
Re:Just How Unpopular Is President Obama? (infographic) on Tuesday December 14, 2010 @11:27AM (#2004643)
Funny how so much history could be decided by chance: If the economy bounces back by August 2011, Obama probably wins another term. If by October, he goes down as a one-term flame out -- another Jimmy Carter.
Re:Watch an Apple Engineer Recreate a 2,000-Year Old Computer Using Legos on Thursday December 09, 2010 @04:00PM (#1989110)
I'll bet people would pay $250+ for that.
Re:The Power Structure of a Mexican Drug Cartel | Co.Design on Friday November 05, 2010 @01:55PM (#1874152)
One of the best charts we've ever posted---says alot about how network organization contributes to the spread terror. All kids of connections there.
Re:Is "Undesigned" the Next Great Web Trend? Fat Chance on Thursday November 04, 2010 @03:36PM (#1870432)
A hell of a lot of interviews in there---Some smart people weighing in. Though maybe Dadich, father of the Wired iPad app, is the OPPOSITE of design that gets out of the way of the reading experience? Check out these posts for more:

http://www.informationarchitects.jp/en/wired-on-ipad-just-li...

http://www.subtraction.com/2010/10/27/my-ipad-magazine-stand

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