Steve Jobs & the power of ideas (via Give it Five Minutes)

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/3124-give-it-five-minutes If you aren't sure why this is important, think about this quote from Jonathan Ive regarding Steve Jobs' reverence for ideas: And just as Steve loved ideas, and loved making stuff, he treated the process of creativity with a...

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Apple: Tabbed Inspectors Suck; Adobe and Omni get it right.

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Could you PLEASE redesign your OS conventions for big screens? Or at least afford some expert accelerators for people with big monitors? This drives me nuts whenever I use Keynote. Most common tasks: Bullet points, type style changes, and borders on...

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Miss Manners on Interaction Design*

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"People who are deluged with information on a subject in which they have limited interest (apologies to the couple, but such is life) do not become increasingly informed. Quite the opposite. They tune out." -- Miss Manners' Guide to a...

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Inbox Surprise via @iansilber

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via @iansilber: "This reminds me of an app I made called Inbox Surprise that would basically allow you to spam someone's inbox with something like this: http://cl.ly/3C08030R3M1v1P3M3s0l. Basically take ascii art and deliver each line as a new email....

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EPIC SQUEE: Eames Elephants

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According to dwr.com, "Demetrios [Eames, grandson of Charles] recently took the Elephant on Safari, creating this film for the Eames Office. For a fun twist, mute the soundtrack and replace it with "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" by The Tokens."...

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Cow Bezoars

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So I'm doing this project for one of the design classes I'm taking right now, and one thing led to another, and before I knew it I was reading all about cow bezoars on Wikipedia. Remember that scene from...

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Stripper shoes: Still not okay.

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I look at all the stripper shoes on the market and think "Ugh. Who wants to look like a hooker?" And then I think "Uh-oh, I must be getting old." And then I think, "But no. They're stripper shoes."...

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Is email on the iPhone a good idea (for me)?

Responding to email on my iPhone mostly sucks, compared to the Blackberry I had previously. However, I'm not sure even a Blackberry could save me now. My role at Groupon means that I now get massive quantities of email...

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Google Calendar: Your modals suck.

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Seriously, don't you ask your candidates about Fitts' Law during interviews any more? It's not like scheduling recurring meetings is an infrequent event, especially at a business, making this a merely occasional annoyance. This MUST annoy Google employees too. And...

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Are you sure you want to leave this page? You suck.

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Dude. Make the options "Save my changes" and "Discard changes". For fark's sake, people. Also, it isn't just Facebook who does this -- I've seen this elsewhere. Probably Outlook. Addendum Wordpress does it too. (I hate Wordpress, but there's something...

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