Category: Design
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On recent Mercedes-Benz dashboard designs
Mercedes (is it ok if I call you MB?), I think we need to talk. You’re doing great in Formula 1, congratulations on that! That said, you’ve gone in a weird direction with your passenger car dashboards. I suspect there are five different teams competing to win with these dashboards and I don’t think anyone, […]
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Thought + Quality
Wherein thinking, instead of reacting, is good
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When Developers Design
Wherein developers are designing and may not even know it
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Pancake publishing
Wherein writing tools get better.
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The joy of finishing
Steve Smith on woodworking and furniture
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Designing technological empowerment
Applied Discovery: What future are we building, given that we play a role in such an important process? On the role designers play, what they do as careers progress, and how design can positively enhance the world. Reminder: if you tilt your head just so, developers do a lot of design activities too.
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Web design for busy programmers
Here it is: I’m somewhere between horribly afraid and way-too-smart to seriously attempt front-end web work. Browsers are not the software whose bugs I am interested in knowing about. That said, putting information on the web that doesn’t look like utter dross is a kind of required literacy in our field. While bravely dipping my […]
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Context is data to burst your bubbles
Designing with context: Context is a slippery topic that evades attempts to define it too tightly. Some definitions cover just the immediate surroundings of an interaction. But in the interwoven space-time of the web, context is no longer just about the here and now. Instead, context refers to the physical, digital, and social structures that […]
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A handful of useful project mantras
You could do a lot worse than following the heuristics set out by this Software Architecture cheat sheet. The tip I need to follow more often is “Is There Another Way”; I frequently get way too caught up in my first idea, which is usually too simplistic or requires too much architecture. The tip I […]