Tower Block of Commons
MPs live on council estates.
“As Matt Jones commented at the time, perhaps there’s a gene for appreciating Burning Man which seemed lacking in many of us. Actually, I don’t think it’s genetic - I just suspect that Burning Man is rubbish. But then I’ve never been. And I’m English.”
— Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium 2010, New York
“iBook in particular seems very rushed, and not great. That shelf interface is particularly horrible. While the bookshelf metaphor was trailblazed by Delicious Monster a few years back, it hasn’t improved with time. Why would a Rams-fan such as Ive settle for clumsy faux-wooden shelving? Particularly when you might have referenced the Ram’s designed 606 shelving system, which is about as perfect as shelving-as-modular-interface can get?”
LackRack
Server rack made from ikea furni
“I’ve been thinking about the meaning of design for a while. And if you’re only looking at design work, it’s tough to answer that question. But, by getting interested in other things, the answer becomes very obvious. “Oh, design is about everything but design, so all this other stuff. Design exists for food and culture and linguistics and dog walkers and the city and agile programming methods and the federal deficit and the Hubble telescope.” Life is much happier once you see design as a cultural vessel, and realize it’s more productive and more nourishing to focus on the culture than the vessel. It’s a great lesson in humility. Forget that designer’s ego stuff: we’re servants.”
“Sometimes a language will have a word that’s best for describing an idea, sort of like how the French have a term meaning the feeling you get after leaving a conversation and thinking of all the things you should have said. God. I know that feeling. (And how great is it that that phrase exists?! It’s l’espirit de escalier, by the way.) I can’t describe that feeling in an image. I can’t even describe it concisely in English. I need French to do that. Ideas are like that too. The right tool for the right job, the right language for the right idea.”
“Finally, is it true that all apps in the AppStore can be run on the tablet, without modifications, without a green light from the developer? I haven’t tested Eliss on the iPad, yet Apple has basically announced that it’s coming out for this new device I had only heard rumors about. If this is true I find this a bit surprising. We should have the right to decide if we want to allow our apps to be run and stretched on a different device than they were designed for.”
“So when something appears on the Zeitgeist page, it’s because it performed better (got more attention) than the norm for that content type/section/day. This makes Zeitgeist significantly different from “most read” and “most commented on” lists which appear on this site and others, which often contain a particular columnist or section which routinely gets more attention than other sections.”
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