January 2010
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This is why it's worth learning about advertising →
Rory Marinich:
It’s easy to look at the iPad skeptically and say that, no, it’s not doing anything truly new. It’s basing itself off the iPhone and the Macbook. Sure, the unibody is revolutionary, the battery is revolutionary, the interface is revolutionary, but it’s all been done before. To which I say, Yes, but it’s never been done all at once. It’s like how Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band...
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13 video player UIs in 24 hours →
I don’t get why every video player UI designer insists on having a button for volume control. Who uses that?
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Realism in UI Design →
Lukas Mathis:
Graphical user interfaces are full of symbols. Symbols need to be reduced to their essence. This helps avoid cluttering the user interface with meaningless distractions, and makes it easier for people to «read» the symbol and figure out the meaning of an interface element. Realistic details can get in the way of what you’re trying to communicate to your users.
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The Apple Tablet Interface Must Be Like This →
Jesus Diaz:
Some people want the Apple Tablet to run Mac OS X’s user interface. Others think its UI will be something exotic. Both camps are wrong: The iPhone started a UI revolution, and the tablet is just step two. Here’s why.
The best article I’ve read about The Tablet UI. Even about tablets UI.
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A More Readable (Pythonic) Javascript Syntax? →
Aza Raskin:
I’ve often wanted to bring Javascript and modern minimalism together: to strip the language of parens, braces, and semicolons. So that’s what I’ve done. I wrote a little parser for a slight modification of Javascript. I call it Pyscript.
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World Science Festival 2009: Notes & Neurons
Watch at 1’45, Bobby McFerrin is amazing.
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