I absolutely adore Jonathan Blow and delight in watching every presentation of his that I find.1 This one is similarly excellent. If you enjoy thinking about how meaning can exist in a system (and the pretentiousness of that sentence didn’t stop you right in your tracks), watch this. Sometimes I delight so much in watching [...]
I’m one of those people that think Sony’s problems lie in its almost complete inability to write software that human beings are supposed to use. That said, Rob Beschizza makes a pretty persuasive case that, at least when it comes to the PC, Sony’s problem is as much it’s inability to actually sit still (as [...]
I realise that, when this launches, it’ll be U.S.-only but I wish this were coming to Australia/Japan, stat.
The design-meisters at Berg take a crack at designing a better receipt.
A lot of people have been pointing out how ridiculous Microsoft’s new Windows Explorer UI looks but Laurie Voss is the first person I’ve seen that points out the craziest thing about the design: Again, this is Microsoft’s own research, cited in the same post: nobody — almost literally 0% of users — uses the [...]
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 [...]
These just seem to get later every year, don’t they? Initially it was January, then February, now it’s March. It’s probably good that I waited a couple of months, though, because there’s a few new ones that have snuck in just in time. Let’s see what I’m listening to this year and how many sentences [...]