You are a threat. It’s a strong word. I don’t mean that you intend pain, injury, or damage. But I’m an introvert and you – as a new unknown human – are a threat to me. I don’t know what you want and you most definitely want something and until I figure that out, you’re… more
Apple TV the beloved stepchild of the Apple product line-up has continuously been dubbed a hobby since its introduction. The label gives Apple optionality. The label allows Apple to say, “Well, we’re serious about this, but we’re not sure about it.’” While I use my Apple TV every single day, my opinion is the reason… more
Question: what are three large tasks on your to do list that have been there forever that you should choose – right now – to never complete?
You’ve heard of the 10x engineer, but I am here to tell you about the Wolf. They are an engineer, and they consistently exhibit the following characteristics: They appear to exist outside the well-defined process we’ve defined to get things done, but they appear to suffer no consequences for not following these rules. Everyone knows… more
Laurie Voss via Quartz:
You are looking for grasp of complex topics and the ability to clearly communicate about them, which are the two jobs of the working engineer.
From Marcin Wichary on Medium:
The perfect underline should be visible, but unobtrusive — allowing people to realize what’s clickable, but without drawing too much attention to itself. It should be positioned at just the right distance from the text, sitting comfortably behind it for when descenders want to occupy the same space…
I believe Medium’s fastidiousness regarding typography is one of the defining characteristics of their brand.
Clay Shirky on Medium:
Contrary to the contrived ignorance of media reporters, the future of the daily newspaper is one of the few certainties in the current landscape: Most of them are going away, in this decade. (If you work at a paper and you don’t know what’s happened to your own circulation or revenue in the last few years, now might be a good time to ask.) We’re late enough in the process that we can even predict the likely circumstance of its demise.
Saturday morning is for discovery. Multiple browser windows point me in multiple directions and I wander until I discover a thing to consider. The key to Saturday morning is not direction, the key is association. I am free associating myself across the internet looking for… something. Turntable.fm used to be key to this experience. This… more
After 200 issues of A List Apart, Kevin Cornell is retiring as staff illustrator. I find Cornell’s work to be gorgeous:
I was fortunate enough to have him illustrate the very first (out of print) Rands t-shirt. Can’t wait to see what he tackles next.
My hunch is a lot of folks are going to have a bunch of questions that will easily be handled by this handy guide by Sebastien Gabriel:
This guide is designed as a “get started” or introductory read for the starting to intermediate designer who wants to learn or get more knowledge about cross-DPI and cross-platform design from the very beginning.