December 2009
1 post
November 2009
1 post
“When you cherry pick, you lose integrity. You lose the below-the-surface aspects...”
– Matt Linderman, Cherry picking is the enemy of the soul (via davidkaneda)
September 2009
2 posts
“If you work on something for five years, that’s more than 20 percent of your...”
– Dean Kamen, in the fascinating fly-on-the-wall book by Steve Kemper, Reinventing the Wheel: A Story of Genius, Innovation, and Grand Ambition (via jackcheng)
July 2009
1 post
June 2009
1 post
May 2009
3 posts
allisonweiss:
I hate how the Vista advertisements rave about how parents can limit their kids’ time spent on the internet. One parent says, “…because sometimes I catch them up at 2:00 in the morning still surfing the web.”
I attribute 100% of my web and graphic design skills to the fact that I spent an insane amount of time on the computer in my youth. I wasn’t playing. I was learning.
March 2009
6 posts
Startups in 13 sentences →
gesteves:
Pick good cofounders.
Launch fast.
Let your idea evolve.
Understand your users.
Better to make a few users love you than a lot ambivalent.
Offer surprisingly good customer service.
You make what you measure.
Spend little.
Get ramen profitable.
Avoid distractions.
Don’t get demoralized.
Don’t give up.
Deals fall through.
(Via factoryjoe.)
Twicker Experiment →
Twitter trends with Flickr photos (built this while procrastinating for more important things)
“Do what you’re about. Please.”
– Gary Vaynerchuk (via simplebliss)
“Don’t bullshit, build shit.”
– via mikehudack
February 2009
13 posts
“Entrepreneurs don’t need degrees like lawyers and doctors do. They are...”
– One Thing You Don’t Need To Be An Entrepreneur: A College Degree
WatchDavid Merrill: Siftables, the toy blocks that think
“Twitter spam. Really? Are you even paying attention? I’ll say it again, you...”
– Rands In Repose: A Twitter Decision
“One free interaction” is a prospective design pattern that gives software and...”
– Cooper Journal: One free interaction (via davidkaneda)
Need a Creative Boost? Find the Blue Room. →
“It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people...”
– Steve Jobs, 1998 (via uxquotes)
“I’ve come to learn that this is one of my favorite parts of the design process:...”
– Adam Polselli on Problems & Solutions (via jorgeq)
January 2009
4 posts
December 2008
14 posts
“There’s a moment when you’ve cut the junk away and balanced whatever there is to...”
– Signal vs. Noise
maniacalrage:
In case you’re curious, I don’t use LOL. I use “heh” for when something makes me smile, “hah” for when someone is being sarcastically funny and I smile, “haha” for when something is funny, and “hahaha” for when I actually laugh. Once you get to three HAs, everything after is a meter of just how much I’m actually laughing. I have written a few “hahahahahahaha” in my life, but it’s...
“I like to hire people who have two traits. They’re smart, and they get things...”
– Marissa Mayer’s Simple Advice On Who To Hire
“To create change, you need to reach out to those who don’t already agree with...”
– 37signals (via tmblg)
No shakes, no pies, no super-sizing, no Happy... →
“I remember once going to a class in yoga where the teacher said that,...”
– Milton Glaser
November 2008
4 posts
Favorites UI design →
Bowtie →
Bowtie is a free application that allows you to control iTunes with shortcuts, submits your songs to Last.fm, and sports a very simple, yet very powerful, xhtml + css + javascript based theming system.
“Clarity is more valuable than density”
– Brent Simmons