People think this takes an $8,000 machine and that it blows up on the first shot. I want to dispel that
Estimated reading time: 2 min
Looking over your work for the thirteenth straight time won’t help. It hasn’t changed on it’s own. Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution doesn’t apply to your word document or lines of code. At some point, your constant revisions just ends up making things worse. Take a break, maybe eat a Kit-Kat, that’s all up to you, but stay away from your work for at least an hour. Fresh eyes makes everything better, and that’s even more so for revisions.
Estimated reading time: 3 min
At the beginning of a sunny Monday morning earlier this month, I had never cracked a password. By the end of the day, I had cracked 8,000. Even though I knew password cracking was easy, I didn't know it was ridiculously easy—well, ridiculously easy once I overcame the urge to bash my laptop with a sledgehammer and finally figured out what I was doing.
Estimated reading time: 7 min
Recited from Christoph Steinlehner
So I built Amazon Random Shopper. Every time I run it, I give it a set budget, say $50. It grabs a random word from the Wordnik API, then runs an Amazon search based on that word. It then looks for every paperback book, CD, and DVD in the results list, and buys the first thing that’s under budget. If it found a CD for $10, then the new budget is $40, and it does another random word search and starts all over, continuing until it runs out of money, or it searches a set number of times.
Estimated reading time: 2 min
Recited from Christoph Steinlehner
In my previous job I worked on things like new TV technologies, high-tech power tools, fancy remote controls, and the like. All things I would never buy or use. All things that I would never see my family members buying or using. It just seemed kind of silly, putting all that money and effort into creating things I didn’t think were important or interesting. Silly thoughts eventually turned into angry, jaded thoughts.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
Cucuma Motto:"Laufe nie in den Fußstapfen eines anderen! Wenn du immer nur die ausgetretenen Pfade anderer benutzt, dann lässt du erstens keine eigenen Spuren zurück. Zweitens wirst du deinen Vorgänger nie überholen. Und drittens kommst du immer nur dort an, wo andere längst waren."
Estimated reading time: 2 min
If you’re still using static wireframes to design this stuff, you are doing yourself (not to mention your client, employer, and/or colleagues) a great disservice. Wireframes just aren’t up to the job of showing subtle interaction details—the things that make the difference between an application that is a delight to use and one that frustrates and annoys.
Estimated reading time: 6 min
Recited from Christoph Steinlehner
The Earth is not a world-image or a story, not even a global village or a global city, but at least seven billions of world-images and stories, au pair with the most complicated of galaxies, but, these world-images are not light dots on black sky, these dots on canvas are at our grasp, because we are among them and we move these world-images/stories, unsettle them, make them teeter. In return, they do the same thing to us, too.
Estimated reading time: 9 min
Interaction design is engineering: it’s not about finding the perfect design, it’s finding the best compromise.
Estimated reading time: 10 min
Recited from Jens Nikolaus
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