Jon Bell works as part of the Windows Phone design team. This is a great talk and the first time I’ve really thought my iPhone is not as well-designed as Windows Phone (I’m envious of something Microsoft makes that competes with an Apple product!). (via Lukas Mathis.)
On 24 March, Google UK & Ireland (of all places) launched a website for a magazine it has produced called Think Quarterly. According to the website, Think Quarterly is a magazine which Google distributes to some of its business partners in order to ‘communicate’. Why Google would want to do this is not clear to [...]
After the discussion in a previous blog post, I tried to create an alternative to the current New York Times Opinion page that dealt with the issues I had. (The image was mocked up very quickly and I didn’t bother properly lining things up, so apologies there.) Linklines I’ve dispensed with the headlines as I [...]
I hate clutter. I’m typing this while writing in a room that looks like a bomb hit it so allow me to be more specific. I hate information clutter. Really hate isn’t the right word because it’s not like I get worked up about it.1 I mean hate in the sense of can’t stand it [...]
It’s 2010. Are you kidding me?
People are getting better at this whole web design thing. I had reason to head over to the website for Foreign Affairs magazine the other day and it’s one spiffy little number. I find this happening quite often lately: I head over to an unvisited site expecting the worst only to discover it’s pretty, easy [...]
My blog has a new theme. It’s time to ditch Hemingway. The theme has served me well and it was hard to let it go after all the work I’d put in to adjusting it but I need to move on. Hemingway’s been a good example to me of the power of design. While this [...]