Taste for Makers – Paul Graham’s epic essay on traits of good designs
gotomedia : strategic interaction design and usability consultancy – great portfolio section, very process-focused
stevenberlinjohnson.com: Thinking Faster – part of our brains are fine with the accelerating pace of life; the emotional parts are not. We’re able to accomplish more and more, but unable to feel it or comprehend it emotionally.
Style.com: Home nice navigation that doesn’t look like navigation; lots of “features”…
Wired News: Pentagon Wants to Make a New PAL – goverment working on a “just-in-time” information tool, like whassup.org…
Experience Design article on the 4 things people do online – learn, feel, connect, and trade. Relates to the holistic “sea change” design philosophy, try to connect with people on all these levels.
Starck Contrast: Going Luxe – Philippe Starck wishes Americans had more design criticism, to improve their work; thinks Target’s commitment to design is just “changing colors”; says “To be a designer is nothing–to live a full life, that is the goal.”
matt jones | work & thoughts | Greetings from (over and over again) Astbury Park, NJ – noting that following Bruce Springsteen’s career doesn’t involve listening to “Bruce Springsteen 7” before “Bruce Springsteen 8″…following a person as an experience…
Daring Fireball: Nottke: Expose works on Macs b/c the window belongs to the application; doesn’t work on PCs because the application belongs to the window! Related to kottke’s Sherfari: “On the Macintosh, the visual scope of an application is the entire display. They are not contained within windows; windows belong to applications, not the other…more