December 2010
12 posts
The Yahoo!locaust
Two graduate students, intrigued by a growing wealth of material on the Internet, built a huge fucking lobster trap, absorbed as much of human history and creativity as they could, and destroyed all of it.
Harsh words from Jason Scott on what Yahoo’s legacy may be.
It’s getting harder and harder to discuss Yahoo without getting apocalyptic about it.
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37signals.com Redesign →
Nice run down of the redesign of 37signals front page. Impressive to see how many full iterations they go through with real content.
Where is Chrome for iOS?
It wouldn’t take much to set it apart. Just a few key features that Mobile Safari lacks:
Wireless syncing of passwords and bookmarks with Chrome desktop through your Google account.
Push notifications that integrated with Google’s services (like Gmail and Calendar). These would open the right URL in the browser.
A single field for search and URLs, just like on the desktop
This...
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Giving Better Design Feedback →
Good advice from Mike Monteiro on how to give feedback on design.
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Touch-based App Design for Toddlers →
Touch devices are opening devices to users many designers and developers aren’t yet capable of designing well for. Luke W gives a few pointers (from his own experience I’m guessing) on designing for toddlers.
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What's wrong with OpenID? →
marco:
The short answer is that OpenID is the worst possible “solution” I have ever seen in my entire life to a problem that most people don’t really have. That’s what’s “wrong” with it.
(via Alex Payne)
Agreed. It’s an engineer’s solution to an engineer’s problem. Normal people deal with multiple logins by being less secure. Most are fine with this.
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Ben the Bodyguard. →
Amazing concept for a product tour/story.
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The 24 Ways Annual →
Nice idea to collect 24 Ways into a physical annual