December 2010
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November 2010
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October 2010
2 posts
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September 2010
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“The Flintstones was originally aimed at an adult audience and the first two...”
– The Flintstone’s 50th Anniversary: 15 things you don’t know, Telegraph.co.uk
August 2010
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Education is what survives when what has been...
I was home schooled when I was younger but only because of the California track system.
Whenever I was out of school for a period of time my Grandmother would keep our minds fresh by creating lessons for us during breakfast and lunch time (sometimes dinner).
We’d do fractions, history, science, grammar, sentence construction and book reports. I would illustrate the covers and would...
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“The core skill of innovators is error recovery not failure avoidance.”
– Randy Nelson, Dean of Pixar University
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July 2010
13 posts
Taxes according to a 6-year-old
Me: Okay, so when you get your toy at Target today, remember that you have to pay some of it to the government.
Zoe (6-year-old): What?! Fine. I'm not buying anything at Target if I have to pay the government.
Me: Zoe, that's how it works. You buy something and you pay 8% on every dollar you spend.
Zoe: (sighs) Well... I guess you think it's fun.
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“Originally, Marty was a video pirate, the time machine was a refrigerator, and...”
– from Wikipedia on Back to the Future
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Myth #21: People can tell you what they want →
There’s a huge difference between imagining using something and actually using it. In addition, human preferences are rather unstable.
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“You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can’t even...”
– Steven Spielberg (AFI honoring the life & career of George Lucas)
Where Did We Wander from the Path? →
Kevin Potts manages to gracefully hit the nail on the head regarding adults (unlike children) losing touch with what’s most important in their lives.
A child asks many questions, whereas an adult tends to relent and forget what makes the world so fascinating.
If we just sit still and dig deep and sift around in the charcoal of our soul, that ember of passion can be tended, protected,...
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June 2010
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iPhone CSS3 →
The iPhone recreated using only CSS3. What an amazing headache.
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Anonymous asked: How did you get started doing design?
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Responsive Web Design →
“Rather than quarantining our content into disparate, device-specific experiences, we can use media queries to progressively enhance our work within different viewing contexts.”
Another fascinating read by Ethan Marcotte.
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Ode to the Bridge Builder by Kyle Gabler (from the...
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“Remember, your job is to design a system that works and has the right functions...”
– from the Handbook of Human Computer Interaction (1997)
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A Practical Guide to Information Architecture... →
If you’re a website designer, intranet manager or someone without much Information Architecture experience, this book answers all those questions you were afraid to ask.
Trent Walton →
Trent makes me feel proud to be a designer, mostly because you can immediately tell that, above all else, he and his team of minions (he has to have them!) have fun creating things that leave a lasting impression. That can be said for only a handful of experiences on the internet and this is one of them.
Dear God by Monsters of Folk
“Little things can make big things happen.”
– Zoe Sagen (philosopher at 6-years-old)
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Tumble. Weeds.
Six years ago, this month, I worked at a KB-Toys store (now a steak restaurant) and decided on a whim to set up a blog so that I could have an excuse to write. Looking back at that time I’ve realized a few things that I hadn’t initially thought of:
Blogging is not difficult but the time commitment sure is.
Prune your weeds.
Good comments are rare. Great comments are purple drops.
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