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About those vector icons | Pushing Pixels

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:30:51 -0700

About those vector icons | Pushing Pixels:

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Daring Fireball Linked List: More on Apple's Rejection of Seth Godin's Book for Linking to Amazon

Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:39:43 -0800

Daring Fireball Linked List: More on Apple's Rejection of Seth Godin's Book for Linking to Amazon:

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It’s here. #tweetbotforipad (Taken with Instagram at Pulse...

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:11:22 -0800

It’s here. #tweetbotforipad (Taken with Instagram at Pulse HQ)

Opinionated Geekery

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:52:34 -0800

Opinionated Geekery:

I started a new blog. You should check it out.

"…we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services."

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:53:08 -0800

“…we don’t build services to make money; we make money to build better services.”

- Wonder where they got this from?

“When you try to copy Apple, it’s like trying to...

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:09:21 -0800

“When you try to copy Apple, it’s like trying to copy an oak tree. You have to plant the seed and watch it grow then see what it came up with. You can’t then just watch what it became, go to Home Depot, buy a whole bunch of lumber, paint and fake leaves, then build something. Because what you build is going to be half-assed and not an oak tree in any way, shape or form.”

Can we please stop this meme now? Shit Silicon Valley says

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:19:48 -0800

Can we please stop this meme now? Shit Silicon Valley says

The Ubuntu HUD reminds me of the “Just Type” from...

Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:54:56 -0800

The Ubuntu HUD reminds me of the “Just Type” from WebOS

Go out and take a walk. Lovely weather in Palo Alto. (Taken...

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:53:33 -0800

Go out and take a walk. Lovely weather in Palo Alto. (Taken with instagram)

It’s a Girl!

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:20:22 -0800

It’s a Girl!

How can you not want this car?

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:14:06 -0800

How can you not want this car?

Craftily stitched together dialogues to for a dialogue. Also...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 06:59:19 -0800

Craftily stitched together dialogues to for a dialogue. Also wonder what would it look like with SOPA/PIPA

Samsung’s Smart Window This is seriously amazing.

Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:31:28 -0800

Samsung’s Smart Window

This is seriously amazing.

Color App - Pool Hopping Commercial And that is how you should...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:47:14 -0800

Color App - Pool Hopping Commercial

And that is how you should NOT make a commercial. Also not fair for the guy who had to stand out of the pool to shoot them having all the fun.

Why do you share online?

Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:49:00 -0800

A good friend asked me this question a few days back and I thought more about it this weekend. So here are some quick thoughts why I feel people share stuff online:

Ego Boost

Like it or not, a majority of us share stuff online with the final motive of being liked and commented upon. It is one of those things everybody does, nobody likes to accept. All my posts about my new gadgets belong here.

Journaling life

In lack of a dead simple tool that lets you journal your life and all aspects of it, people choose to use the services that they love to journal their life. Half of my Instagram and Path pictures fall in this category.

Your perspective of the world

I know many people in this category. People who share with the simple purpose of sharing how they see the world through their eyes. Or just an opinion. The other half of my Instagram is this. Random photos of oddities I witness everyday.

Random thoughts that cross your mind

I post almost every “safe for work”, not highly opinionated thought that crosses my mind on Twitter. I am guessing there are more like me. It is more like an alternate blog that just takes a lot less time to post on.

No matter what you say, people share for some random combination of the above reasons. Their is most of the time, not just one reason to share this. Like everything else, it is complicated.

Opinions

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:04:43 -0800

If given the choice between expressing an opinion and being useful, or pleasing most people most of the time by saying everything is great even when it isn’t, I’ll choose expressing an opinion every time. And if that results in derogatory feedback, so be it.

It is good to have opinions, it means you have thought about something. And what good are opinions, unless voiced!

Marco’s quoted text from his article pretty much summarizes my viewpoint on opinions.

We did not send the mail, oh no we did!

Wed, 28 Dec 2011 14:24:10 -0800

Earlier in the day I got an email from NYTimes that talked of how my subscription is getting over. Surprisingly I have never been their subscriber.

Then I read the following on Twitter:

And then I get this in the email:

Hey New York Times, here is lesson #34 of screw up management. Don’t let two versions of the same story come out from the company. And if you ask me, here is a simpler rule, just be honest.

San Francisco in 1955: Interesting to see how cities evolve....

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:08:57 -0800

San Francisco in 1955: Interesting to see how cities evolve. Wonder what the parallel of “survival of the fittest” is for cities.

Realistic mockups

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 14:19:53 -0800

Realistic mockups:

“As a designer, you have your baby that you want to try and sell. To make it saleable, you might pick someone who has really nice photos in their profile and use that to make your mockups,” Felton says. “But you’re ultimately just lying to yourself and the rest of the group if you think everyone’s page is going to look like that.”

In what is a lovely article, Felton describes something that I have myself learnt over the years. It is the simple fact that when you are creating mockups, you can either choose to have the best of the photos to adorn content and make your design saleable, be that to a client or team members, BUT you know deep down that it would not be looking this awesome once you create some not -so-awesome content in those placeholders. Sadly that will be the case more often that not. So why fool yourself by using the best images and content for placeholders.
A corollary to this is that it is always the best to design for edge cases than designing for the average cases. If your design can adapt itself to the extremes the averages will of course fit in just right.

It is always hard to do amazing stuff

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:21:00 -0800

It is always hard to do amazing stuff:

“Yeah, it’s kind of hard to do.”

-Drew Houston in the first meeting with Apple on being asked how they hacked their way into Finder

I will admit it. I am a big fan of Dropbox and have immense respect for the engineering prowess of the team. I am eagerly waiting for the first Operating System that utilizes the doors of possibilities that Dropbox opens.

However, that line right there, shows the attitude that made this possible in a market that others assumed was already over saturated.

It’s kind of hard to do, it always is. That is why it has probably never been done before or not been done in just the right way. That is why you have a chance to do it. That is why you chose to do it.