Business Week’s next issue has an article exploring Jonathan Ive’s backstory, what he does, and what makes him tick. A fascinating exploration into the “man behind the curtain” at Apple. Ive invests his design dollars in state-of-the-art prototyp...
My friend Rob forwarded me a link to an interview on AIGA about Aleksandar Macasev’s Joseph Goebbels Project: I am not trying to [create a hero out Goebbels by elevating Goebbels as an icon of information and disinformation], but part of the point...
Joel Spolsky rips into Sprint’s new LG Fusic phone: All the "tipping point" theories in the world won’t protect Sprint from the basic truth that the LG Fusic user interface could basically serve as an almost complete textbook for a semester-long c...
The Windows Shell team has a new aggregated blog at shellrevealed.com, which includes posts from everyone from Raymond Chen to Dave Vronay. A great way to stay on top of what’s happening with the team that is most critical to the Windows user expe...
Jeff Han, a research scientist at NYU, demonstrated a prototype of a gesture-driven user interface at TED 2006. The “interface-free” UI (I hate terms like that) is demonstrated with several interesting demos, which hew towards data visualization i...
I write my blog posts on an irregular basis and always schedule them to appear the next morning at 7am. For some reason, Movable Type has not been publishing these for the past few days. Not quite sure why… Sorry about the lack of content.
While I was off recruiting impressionable, young college students to come join Microsoft over the past two days, Apple announced a slew of updates, including a new version of iTunes. Unfortunately, Apple seems to have beaten iTunes 7 with the ugly...
Five years ago today I woke up to a beautiful fall day in Minnesota. It was sunny, warm, and full of possibilities. I, like everyone else, never expected any of what was to come. I was shaken to my core by a phone call I received from my girlfrien...
Microsoft’s experimental photo gallery-sharing application, Project Max, was just updated for the first time in six months on Friday. This latest release requires .NET FX 3.0 RC1, and offers you the ability to view RSS and ATOM feeds, weirdly enou...
Kathy Sierra, co-creator of the O’Reilly Head First book series (including the super-cool Head First Design Patterns book), has a very long, very passionate post on some of the fundamental disconnects product creators have with their documentation...