I was having a discussion last night with Liz when she brought up an article in the latest GQ Magazine in which the author rails on the different archetypes being played out by certain individuals on popular social network sites. As we were talking it occurred to me that it all started back in ’92 [...]
Arianna brings something up that I don’t think a lot of us worry about. She says (about the Van Jones scandal where he allowed himself to be associated with the 9/11 Truther movement by signing their petition): If the sliming of Van Jones is an indication of how things are going to be, a lot [...]
When you talk to designers about “application design” there seems to be an invisible box created that immediately gets filled with assumptions. Overly beveled. Tons of chrome. Boring. All too often, whether because of application bloat, feature creep or simply inelegant & unimaginative solutions, designs for applications end up looking like they were stamped out [...]
(vis signalpaterns.com) People signal their preferences to each other in many ways – through shared taste in music, common hobbies or professional interests, even through similar personality attributes. Signal Patterns recognizes and interprets the patterns in those signals, giving people new ways to connect with their friends and to the world around them. We enable [...]