1. Redesigning TechCrunch: We Picked This Logo Just to Piss You Off →

    While the logo is bizarringly low-fi, there are a lot of neat usability considerations on this, plus some long-needed performance improvements… Nice one.

  2. In my opinion, you show your experience by the questions you ask, rather than the ones you think you don’t have to. Smart questions raise someone’s opinion in my mind more than someone who is completing tasks on their own.

  3. Brand Butlers: Turn Your Brand into a Service →

    An excellent summary of the trend (especially using mobile) of brand experiences providing useful services, rather than just pushing brand messaging. Includes a TON of example apps/sites!

  4. I would attend more conferences if the content was curated better; targeting a (tech/marketing) conference at a crowd skewed towards the upper-end of knowledge of the industry and presenting 101-style sessions doesn’t seem to be congruent with one another. In my mind, every conference should have someone responsible for content curation - whether it’s the only task they have or not. 

  5. Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I might remember. Involve me and I will understand.

    — Chinese Proverb

  6. joncrowley: jayparkinsonmd: The last 300 days: 50, 182,850 worldwide deaths 5,850 deaths from H1N1 (via Michæl.Paukner) Perspective is great, but let’s look at this honestly. Yes, you have a greater chance of dying from a car accident, or cancer, or cardiovascular disease. But there’s also a vaccine for H1N1. So, you know, I’ll put more stock in these graphical representations of ‘it won’t kill you’ when the cancer vaccine, heart attack vaccine, and car accident vaccine become available.

    joncrowley:

    jayparkinsonmd:

    The last 300 days:

    50, 182,850 worldwide deaths

    5,850 deaths from H1N1

    (via Michæl.Paukner)

    Perspective is great, but let’s look at this honestly. Yes, you have a greater chance of dying from a car accident, or cancer, or cardiovascular disease. But there’s also a vaccine for H1N1. So, you know, I’ll put more stock in these graphical representations of ‘it won’t kill you’ when the cancer vaccine, heart attack vaccine, and car accident vaccine become available.

  7. It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit.

    — Author Unknown

  8. Design Patterns to Solve Problems →

    IA/UX/UI guys, this is for you - despite the Silverlight usage, it’s great.

  9. dariusbashar: passthemike: Jonathan Lipnicki turns 19 today. Now you feel old. Good lord. Also, “did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?”

    dariusbashar:

    passthemike:

    Jonathan Lipnicki turns 19 today. Now you feel old.

    Good lord.

    Also, “did you know the human head weighs eight pounds?”

  10. My little brother almost bought an album from iTunes the other day because it was too much trouble to find a pirated version. Why on earth hasn’t the music industry shifted their marketing to how it is more convienent to buy authentic than the “we will sue you for every dime if you don’t” approach?

    — 

    (via danielpatricio)

    The music industry push convenience, Daniel? But what about the hyper-exclusive super ultra limited edition with bonus acoustic disc?