February 2008

The Archives

• Links

  Links for February 24th through February 25th

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Plants that Twitter when they need to be watered.Congrats to these fellow ITP alums on keeping their product rolling.

  SEO Shenanigans Pose a Clear and Present Danger to Social Media

  Will There Be A (Successful) iPhone-Only Social Network?Interesting post. I still firmly believe someone will do this right and betting on iPhone owners with their newfound pseudo-GPS […]

• Mobile, Thoughts

  SHIFD launches. Will you use it?

  02.25.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Shifd, a product born from the BBC Hack Day London competition has launched in Beta today. I’m going to play around with it this week but it seems like it might be a decent way to send yourself reminders/todos and have access to them from multiple machines (including your mobile).
  [Shift] sends your content to […]

• Design, Design in the Wild, Interface, Locative, Signage, Thoughts

  Design In The Wild: Cancun airport - good for maps, bad for books

  02.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  On our way back from Tulum, Karen and I got delayed at the Cancun airport for about four and a half hours. This resulted in having the “opportunity” to eat our first ever meal at Bubba Gump’s, as well as learn the layout of the airport backwards and forwards.
  After some time wandering around trying […]

• Links

  Links for February 22nd through February 23rd

  02.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The Many Ways Blogs, Twitter, YouTube FaceBook, MySpace And Other Social Media Will Change Your BusinessGood post that links off to a bunch of other good ones.

  iPhone SDK will be lateNot a HUGE surprise, but still stinks.

  Best screenshot tool I’ve found. Particularly for long pages.Give it a URL and it’ll generate a full screenshot for […]

• Gold Star, Interface, Mobile

  Socialthing’s launching some great looking updates at SXSW

  02.23.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  …and I’ll be there to give them a test run. Amongst other things, it looks like they might launch some of the features that will let you update various sites from their unified interface:

  As well as a great looking iphone interface:

  The most exciting piece of news to me is the sneak peak at a slick […]

• Links

  Links for February 21st through February 22nd

  02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Twitter + Your “Far Outer Circle”Great explanation from Logic + Emotion about the social dynamics of Twitter and the kind of relationships its well suited for.

  Why do most consumer products traditionally have such bad user experiences?

  “Every now and then, someone who is brilliant says something stupid…”A reply to Steve Jobs’ claim that people don’t read […]

• Design, Gold Star, Thoughts

  As amazing a bookshelf as I’ve ever seen

  02.21.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Incredibly clever way to turn limited storage space into a highly functional (and whimsical) bookshelf.
  The staircase is both the way to access the bedroom and a perfect place to store books, movies or CDs. “With a skylight above lighting the staircase, it becomes the perfect place to stop and browse a tome,” says Levitate’s Tim […]

• Design, Process, Thoughts

  David Armano’s presentation on interaction design…

  02.21.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  … from Interaction08 in Savannah (btw, I am getting more and more dismayed that I wasn’t able to go this year) about how the discipline has evolved from the earlier, more waterfall-like, approach to product development that seem to permeate the industry.
  I particularly like the way he breaks down why we need sensibilities […]

• Links

  Links from February 20th

  02.20.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  TiVo Software Roundup (Mac Only)

  Check out these archived web designs from the 90sRemembering the first time I saw that old Yahoo! homepage freshman year in college brings a little tinkle to my eye.

  A shortage of digital coachesThis is an idea I toyed with when I was looking for ways to make a little extra scratch […]

• Design, Thoughts

  Apple patent suggests the advanced multitouch in the MacBook Air is only the beginning

  02.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  (I know all this is still a mere glimmer in a patent-filer’s eye so its not really fair to be negative about it but…)
  I’m of two minds about this. On one hand, my initial instinct is that all these variations in a what is still an incredibly new control paradigm would greatly overwhelm most […]