Paul Stonier

Troels Nørlem of Designit: On Mobile

paulstonier — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:15:47 +0000

2012/02 Troels Nørlem from CreativeMornings/Aarhus on Vimeo.

Troels Nørlem of Designit shares his experience with mobile app design at the inaugural CreativeMornings/Aarhus.

I absolutely love the term that Troels uses to describe how people use mobile web experiences. He describes it as “service snacking”. He elaborates with the analogy of watching a movie with a bowl of popcorn, just grabbing piece after piece at a time. If you think about how you use for smartphone, this is an excellent description.

Also, he adds…

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”

Ben Chestnut of MailChimp on CreativeMornings in Atlanta

paulstonier — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:29:51 +0000

2011/12 Creative Mornings with Ben Chestnut from CreativeMornings/Atlanta on Vimeo.

CEO of MailChimp, Ben Chestnut, talks about focusing on entropy in order to build to keep the money machine working.

Danny Trinh: Designer at Path

paulstonier — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:04:18 +0000

Danny Trinh has a unique path to getting to where he is, but he does a great job of representing designers in the SF tech startup community. In this video, he covers how he got where he is, the importance of surrounding yourself with great people and tells it in a very interesting way.

I love his response to Semil Shah’s question of what’s more important; functionality or aesthetics?

He says

Good design is as little design as possible…The most important thing is the product itself. What does it say to the user?…Simplifying as much as possible and editting.

Source: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/26/tctv-in-the-studio-with-danny-trinh-paths-21-year-old-product-designer/

Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design by Aarron Walter

paulstonier — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 23:00:26 +0000

Aarron Walter covers not only how users benefit from bringing emotion into design, but also the business case.

Source: Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

Jonathan Hoefler at Pivot AIGA Conference

paulstonier — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:15:57 +0000

Jonathan Hoefler is always incredibly articulate about his relation to letters and fonts. In this case, he does an entertaining and detailed job of spelling out the challenges, concerns and considerations a type designer faces when creating fonts for the web.

via Frank Chimero.

A to Z Archipelago Books: by Agra Satria

paulstonier — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:46:00 +0000

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How Ligatures are Made: by David Schwen

paulstonier — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 19:33:21 +0000

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Sweat the Details

paulstonier — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 12:21:40 +0000

“There is no room for sloppiness, for carelessness, for procrastination. Every detail is important because the end result is the sum of all the details involved in the creative process, no matter what we are doing. There are no hierarchies when it comes to quality.” -Massimo Vignelli

Kevin Rose interviews Dennis Crowley, FourSquare Co-Founder

paulstonier — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:38:10 +0000

Kevin Rose has had too many contributions to the tech world to count. I’m obsessed with his Foundation video series. I highly recommend you do, too.

hugs,
Paul

KLM Surprise: Service through listening and responding with gratitude

paulstonier — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:41:49 +0000

Thanks to Marc Benioff for showing this at Dreamforce 2011 today.

A great example of how businesses can listen and use shock & awe tactics to create impactful customer experiences.