No matter how familiar the passage, I never tire of seeing and hearing it another way. This video by the amazing Fred Sprinkle is the latest, and one of the best. (Click the image to see the full video!)
Category Archives: Design
Joining the dark side
I wanted a really cool Windows Mobile phone. I was hoping the HTC Touch Diamond or Sony Xperia could make it respectable, but I don’t see any sign they’ll be available to me soon. I thought Google’s Android might be a good excuse to avoid joining the iPhone cult (though I worry that Google may …
Design Police
I really would love to carry these stickers around, along with a pad of apostrophes at different sizes…but I’m annoying enough without engaging in grammar vandalism.
I love my nixie clock
It was love at first site when I saw the nixie tubes on Hoefler & Frere-Jones’ blog. I ordered a clock immediately. I still need to find the perfect place in the office to show off its warm glow and cross-fading numerals to everyone; until then I’ll just have to keep it here on my …
When I hit the button, do something!
Despite the increasing computational capacity of our devices, the problem seems to be getting worse. User interface responsiveness seems to lie low on the list of priorities in many contemporary electronic devices. There’s not much I can add to Dennis Forbes’ post except “Amen!”.
Apple, save us with your iPhone
I watched the iPhone demo at Apple.com. Wow. The iPhone is so well designed that it makes me angry that the other tools I use every day are so annoying. And then I remember that my own product isn’t that well designed (yet), and that doing good design is very hard, and very expensive, and …