Web Interface Design Tip: The Yellow Fade Technique “Because something is happening here / But you don’t know what it is / Do you, Mister Jones?” – Bob Dylan A lot of web sites & applications make you feel a bit like Mr. Jones. That’s why we’ve pioneered the Yellow Fade Technique (YFT) in Basecamp. [...]
Jak widać, ostatnio jestem pod dużym wpływem 37signals :) Interface First Design the interface before you start programming Too many apps start with a program-first mentality. That’s a bad idea. Programming is the heaviest component of building an app, meaning it’s the most expensive and hardest to change. Instead, start by designing first. Three State [...]
It Just Doesn’t Matter Most of the time you spend is wasted on things that just don’t matter. If you can cut out the work and thinking that just don’t matter, you’ll achieve productivity you’ve never imagined.
The Waterfall Comfort Blanket Commercial Alignment I have often heard it said that an iterative or agile approach isn’t feasible because of the constraints imposed upon a project by delivery contracts. It’s true that this is a common issue for software delivery organisations, but these constraints have typically come about from a breakdown of trust [...]
It’s Small-Time: Wooden Bottle Opener Medical design getting sexier, doctors have some bad-ass workstations Tokyo’s new, huge, and very smart vending machines Save as WWF: A New Green File Format InCase’s slick-and-slim iPhone 4 battery case Transforming furniture for hardcore gamers who crave style What Cuba is for ’50s cars, Venezuela is for ’70s cars [...]
Ostatnio trochę czytałem na temat sposobów tworzenia i prowadzenia dobrych prezentacji. Przy tej okazji trafiłem na ciekawą formułę, którą chciałem tutaj polecić – Ignite Show. W skrócie: temat dowolny 20 slajdów automatyczna zmiana slajdu co 15 sekund całość składa się na 5-minutową prezentację Niektórzy czują się w takiej formule gorzej, inni lepiej, a poniżej jedna [...]
Nowoczesny magazyn Cool storage designs, part 1: EasiFile for large docs, blueprints, photos Cool storage designs, part 2: Vertical carousels for office and commercial environments Cool storage designs, part 3: Trio of vertical carousels for super-industrial, automated storage Cool storage designs, part 4: StorageMotion’s in-home systems for clothes, shoes, food, and more
Acorn Bags: Awesome bike bags, not so awesome production means Polar Ice for Sale in Amsterdam It’s Small-Time: Fisheye and Macro Lenses for Cell Phones Tjeerd Veenhoven’s air-powered iPhone and more Neil Poulton’s Tanks for the memory Studio Ve’s Manifold Clock renders time 3D
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Design That Matters’ NeoNurture turns auto junk into human life Dodatkowe materiały: Vestas’ Lego Installations in the Shanghai Airport Pneumatically-powered grappling hook gun How many times have you thrown your heavy grappling hook skyward only to have it miss the windowsill, plummet back towards the ground and kill one of your accomplices? That’s no longer [...]