February 2012
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What happened before the Big Bang? →
Ah, perhaps the second most important/asked question, after what is the meaning of life? Beware brain-bending possibilities lie in wait the other side of that link, prepare to stare off into middle-distance with your head tilted slightly in wonder.
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Dieter Rams' 10 principles of good web design →
Some of my favourite words right there in that headline. From the article:
To make a website easy to understand, you have to have a clear view of the goals that the website has in order to design for those goals. You must keep the ease of use and how easy it is for a visitor to reach their goal in mind.
January 2012
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Accumulating 'microplastic' threat to shores →
This is fairly concerning. Easy to overlook the fact that you are essentially wearing plastic a lot of the time, but I had never considered that it would lint off in the wash and end up in the sea.
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The Top 12 JavaScript MVC Frameworks Reviewed →
Can’t remember the pros and cons of all those frameworks like Spine, Sammy, Sproutcore, Backbone, and the rest? Gordon L. Hempton runs through 12 of the most popular, lists their pros and cons, and picks Ember.js as his ultimate winner
Nice list to refer back to.
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Behance launches Student Show →
If you are a student reading this wondering if you should have online work examples, get on something like this ASAP. You might not feel like you will get the value out of it right now, but later on down the line you can only look back and regret not hustling sooner. You never know what might happen and it hasn’t cost you anything. Get to it.
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5 Ways The Smart City Will Change How We Live In... →
2012 seems more than a little ambitious for what is laid out in this article but its a good insight into the city of the near-ish future.
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Wedding ring 'found on carrot' after 16 years →
Incredible, not only to find it after 16 years, but that a carrot has grown up within it!
December 2011
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1000th Post
I joined Tumblr in 2008 thanks to the more visual, creative and laid-back nature of the community here. I didn’t want to have to crank out a blog post like clockwork and to just be myself and let the blog be what it will be. So lets see what I have been posting about.
A look back
1st post - A three word link… “Laser Staring Cats”. A fitting way to kick off, I think...
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The seventh disruption: How James Dyson reinvented... →
Goes into depth about the thought process, approach and working environment at Dyson. Prepare for a long read, but a great one.
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Why Your Car Is The Next Advertising Battleground →
A horrible but disturbing reality. The contextual stuff sounds interesting though, maybe. With Googles self driving cars you will have no distractions at all! Let the ads wash over you.
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Top 6 Trends In HTML5 In 2011 →
HTML5 in a blanket sense of the term. Good rundown and the usual responsive design argument raging in the comments.
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If You're Not Sitting Where Your Customer's... →
Good article that stresses the importance of putting yourself in the customers shoes, with their motivations. Not just for CEOs, but for anyone along the customer journey.
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Why you should move that button 3px to the left →
When we’re happy, using an interface feels like play. The world looks like a puzzle, not a battle. So when we get confused, we’re more likely to explore and find other paths to success.
Great article, some great points.
November 2011
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The trials and tribulations of HTML video in the... →
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Bang and Olufsen: Design which lasts the distance →
The great designs of the great David Lewis (1939-2011)
Nice interview and gallery of the product design work he undertook whilst working for Bang & Olufsen.
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I keep my shoes wedged behind the top of my...
It was a snap practical decision to put them there but the more I thought about it and as time went on it just seems like a great idea.
It dried my shoes out after getting wet [reason I initially put them there].
It gets them up off the floor, frees floor space and stops me tripping over them or hoovering up the laces.
They tuck my window blind in at the bottom so sunlight doesn’t stream...
October 2011
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Tumblrs theme selection from customise screen: the...
I was looking forward to the early indications of this new avenue of theme selection and the effects it may have on the installs of ‘Print Theme’. Sadly, ‘plummets’ seems to be the trend, I’ve lost people each day since the feature launched, at a time when I still had slow but consistant growth. Two avenues to install, increased ease of use, an increase of installs...
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Steve Jobs on Why He Wore Turtlenecks →
An excerpt from the upcoming biography, ’Steve Jobs’ by Walter Isaacson explains the reason.
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Rest in peace Steve Jobs
Difficult reading my Twitter stream last night and during today. This is just a collection of the most interesting, inspiring, touching pieces I read today:
The very moving statement by President Obama
Steve Jobs playing with Photobooth
Forbes: The top 10 lessons that Steve Jobs taught us
New York Times: 317 Patents that included Steve Jobs named as an inventor
Most unexpected was the article...
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September 2011
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What would really happen if you nuked a volcano? →
This is why I follow io9. Getting to the heart of the big questions. Though they often end in mild disappointment, I enjoy the ride. See also, What would a teaspoonful of Neutron star do to you?
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“Most companies that are great at something – like AOL dialup or Borders...”
– Reed Hastings, Netflix CEO [via TechCrunch]
This. From my experience, this is so true.
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The myth of free wi-fi →
A good one from the comments:
Thats the kind of backward thinking that is causing us to lag behind other countries. Consider this - customer buys burger from shop and goes home vs customer buys burger, gives email address for online access (shop can resell this), checks into location on social network (advertising for store) and hangs around town longer. Which generates more revenue overall?...
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Our brains are hardwired to fear creativity (?!) →
That, and change.
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August 2011
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How to build your own Google Chromebook →
[by installing it… it would seem] Still, this is my bank holiday weekend sorted out.