Florian Schulz recommended Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' from theverge.com:

If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you — as a human being. And when someone is staring at you, you have to notice

Florian Schulz recommended New 'Lulz Liberator' pistol proves guns can be made on cheap 3D printers from theverge.com:

People think this takes an $8,000 machine and that it blows up on the first shot. I want to dispel that

Florian Schulz recommended How to Survive Perfectionism and Not Become a Zombie from blog.quoterobot.com:

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.

Florian Schulz recommended Postach.io Turns An Evernote Notebook Into A Blog from techcrunch.com:

One of the big things with Evernote is that you own your content – it’s actually on your own computer,” Adrian explains. “Even if our servers are struck by lighting and everything falls apart, everyone will have their blog posts.

Florian Schulz recommended How I became a password cracker from arstechnica.com:

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.

Florian Schulz recommended Randomized Consumerism from randomshopper.tumblr.com:

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.

Florian Schulz recommended How One Designer Went From Designing Remote Controls To Cook Stoves from fastcoexist.com:

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.

Florian Schulz recommended Cucuma Rennräder, Mountainbikes, Fahrräder und Zubehör from cucuma.com:

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."

Florian Schulz recommended Tuesday, 23 October from the-pastry-box-project.net:

Prototyping is addictive—you have to pull yourself away from it (rather than forcing yourself to stay in your chair and finish annotating your wireframes).

Florian Schulz recommended Chapter Two Craft and Beauty from shapeofdesignbook.com:

The Shakers have a proverb that says, “Do not make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both, do not hesitate to make it beautiful.”

Florian Schulz recommended Time to Dump Wireframes from capcloud.com:

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.

Florian Schulz recommended Skeumorphism and the iPad from ianstormtaylor.com:

So interaction designers can complain all they want about the experience with larger collections, but Apple wasn’t targeting that experience, they were targeting first time users, and they did so extremely well.

Florian Schulz recommended Design Tip: Never Use Black from ianstormtaylor.com:

Bottom line is: when you find #000000 in your color picker, ask yourself if you really want pure black. You’re probably better off with something more natural. And if you’re feeling adventurous, try staying away from the left edge of the color picker altogether.

Florian Schulz recommended Map Your Moves. Move Your Maps. from pointlineflow.net:

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.

Florian Schulz recommended Responsive Typography: The Basics from informationarchitects.net:

Interaction design is engineering: it’s not about finding the perfect design, it’s finding the best compromise.