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Microsoft’s woes explained 26 Aug 2013 | 11:56 am
Bundled Out is a great post by Charles Miller on how every problem Microsoft is experiencing today was written into its DNA in the 1980s. You really should read the whole post, so I’m just going to qu...
Amazon: caught between a rock and a local maximum 26 Aug 2013 | 11:16 am
Joshua Porter makes a good point about Amazon’s product pages: The reality is that Amazon has designed themselves into a Local Maximum. They’ve tested and tweaked the same product page over and over ...
Loneliness, social networks, and the power to get up 23 Aug 2013 | 05:39 pm
Geoff Livingston wrote a great essay called Is Existing Online a Quest of Loneliness or Giving? It’s worth reading the whole thing, but here’s an excerpt that stuck out for me: We exist in a time whe...
Figure out where you can make real impact 21 Aug 2013 | 11:48 am
Ainsley Wagoner shares a story from architecture school in How We Measure Success. She describes a lecture in which their architecture professor first painted a picture of what it’s like to chase the ...
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The perils of perfect recollection 19 Aug 2013 | 12:38 pm
Quentin Hardy has some interesting thoughts on what happens in a world of perfect recollection in his essay What’s Lost When Everything Is Recorded: There is much to be gained from storage, of course...
If software is eating the world, Medium is eating its content. 18 Aug 2013 | 07:32 pm
About two years ago Marc Andreessen proclaimed that software is eating the world (beware the WSJ paywall): My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economi...
Without proper design, any technology can be terrifying 15 Aug 2013 | 10:22 pm
Cliff Kuang discusses wearable tech and ubiquitous computing in Why a New Golden Age for UI Design Is Around the Corner: In the wrong hands, this is a dystopian prospect—technology’s unwanted intrusi...
Products that remove small life annoyances 12 Aug 2013 | 09:00 pm
I’m currently travelling in the U.S., which means I can finally drag some of my favorite apps from the graveyard screen on my iPhone to the home screen. I’m now happily exploring around in Yelp and Fa...
The problem with responsive frameworks 7 Aug 2013 | 07:37 pm
There’s so much good stuff in this responsive design interview with Brad Frost and others. I was especially interested in everyone’s thoughts on responsive frameworks. Here’s Aaron Gustafson‘s answer:...
