August 2011
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On Passive Interaction →
“It’s clear that simplifying and physically tailoring input to output with tech like NFC is a good way to enhance user experience and can lead to some unique interactions. We plan on taking this idea further by experimenting with other platforms and input devices.”
—Physical and Frictionless Input, Teehan+Lax 7 June 2011.
Digital experience agency Teehan+Lax experiments with passive...
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“A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others...”
– David Brinkley
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The internet kills all middlemen. →
Ben Pieratt, designer and founder of Svpply:
The market is handing you steak and you’re choosing the gristle. The market is handing you gold bullion and you’re taking the nickel.
As a designer, you enjoy building things for other people’s use. Your value is determined by the degree to which you can empathize with groups of people around a given topic. Historically, this relationship has...
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“In sports, one never imagines that you can get by on talent alone. Take Roger...”
– Jocelyn K. Glei, The 99 Percent - Haruki Murakami: Talent Is Nothing Without Focus and Endurance
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Twitter Bootstrap →
Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart development of webapps and sites. It includes base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and more.
Typically I’m not a huge fan of development frameworks like this one, but digging into it there seems to be quite a few things to learn. Another framework worth looking into is the responsive...
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“No one cares about your ideas. They only care about what you make.”
– Blain Hogan, from his book Untitled: Thoughts on the Creative Process
Follow Blain on Tumblr
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WatchNike+ City Runs
Interactive studio YesYesNo worked with Nike to create a unique retail installation for the launch of Nike Free Run+ 2 City Pack series. They developed software that created unique digital paintings based on individual runner’s Nike+ data based on their speed, consistency and unique run style.
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Style Hatch Updates
Now that Style Hatch’s first employee Jess Brown has finally moved to southern California with his family, we’re charging full steam ahead on the future of Style Hatch and two other top-secret startups. I’m loving the new energy in the office and looking forward to bringing on the next talented person—email me if you’re an advanced front-end developer interested in joining the team.
Charity...
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“People eat with their eyes first… If you have a restaurant that is appealing,...”
– Don Thompson - President and COO of McDonalds
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Welcome to Recession 3.0!
If you’re smart this is by far the best time to make things happen. Go lean and work hard.
Early 2000’s Recession - Laid off from a job that lead me to a wildly successful stint as a freelance designer and eventually transitioned into the ad agency world.
Great Recession - Took the plunge to start up my own agency and built up a great client list looking for alternatives to their...
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WatchNosh 404
The new mobile app Nosh, that helps find out what’s good to eat here, has one of the most epic 404 page. They’ve employed a special ops team to track down and use deadly force if necessary to take down rogue pages.
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“To take risks and to make the world better by being amazing. … You get to...”
– Seth Godin, Time to take action
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How to get out of a creative rut →
Fantastic article by Nextness on how to power through “those stretches of days and even weeks when your insights dry up, your voice fails you, you lose your artistic eye, your drive to work disappears”. I couldn’t agree more with their seventh way to dig yourself out of a rut.
7. Start a Tumblr.
Tumblelogs represent the early stirrings of late adolescent creativity, the melodrama...
