January 2012
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SOPA
If I describe the scene from the Goonies where they’re in the well-cavern, and Samwise Gamgee says, “The next time you see sky, it’ll be over another town…down here it’s our time..”, and my description is so good that it paints the picture perfectly in your mind, the drips of the water, the golden light of the cavern. Will the fed shut your brain down?
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Design Delicious Websites
Designing websites is more like the culinary arts than the visual.
Thinking about your designs for the web as these permanent artifacts that will be discovered and referenced in the future is probably not a realistic venture.
I think it better to think of our designs as a piece that we toil over then hand to the user to experience and enjoy. And when they’re done, figuratively, that’s it. As...
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You’re Referencing Thomas Edison Wrong
Ol’ Thomas Edison persevered through over 3000 iterations of a light bulb filament. This is what we teach kids. This is what we think to ourselves when the going gets tough. Just stick it out a little longer. Like the motivational poster of the cat hanging from a tree: “Just Hang In There”.
Persevering with a terrible idea is stupid. If you’re persevering purely because you have persevered for a...
“…engineers, designers, scientists, we’re all trying to make technology...”
– Paola Antonelli 99% Invisible Interview
