Reinier Ladan posts whatever awesomeness he finds on the legendary internets. Mostly design, interactive, innovative and technology stuff. More from Reinier Ladan on Reinier.meTumblr (3.0; @reinierladan)http://awesomelegendary.com/<a href="http://mattgemmell.com/2010/03/09/engineer-thinking">Engineer Thinking » Matt Legend Gemmell</a>: <p>Matt Legend Gemmell on Engineer Thinking:</p> <p>“All too often, when faced with a decision about how to implement certain functionality, engineers take the extreme position that:</p> <ul> <li>A feature must be exactly what 100% of users want. </li> <li>If the above isn’t true (and it almost never is), the feature must be configurable. </li> </ul> <p>This binary approach is gravely wrong, and unjustly offloads decision-making onto the user of the software. We’ve all seen where this approach ends up: multi-row sets of tabs, scrolling panes of checkboxes, nested radio-buttons and a general overload of configuration.”</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/443227369http://awesomelegendary.com/post/443227369Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:26:52 +0100<a href="http://johnnyholland.org/2010/03/10/what-are-you-suggesting-using-images-to-influence/">“What Are You Suggesting?” Using Images to Influence</a>: <p>“As interaction designers, we’re keenly aware of the explicit meanings in words and images. But how many of us also focus on the what is suggested by our words and images?”</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/439654083http://awesomelegendary.com/post/439654083Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:40:53 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyglw7DeKO1qzkrfxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://justinrampage.tumblr.com/post/413566429/we-are-all-in-trouble-now-darth-vaders-true">justinrampage</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>We are all in trouble now. <i><a href="http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Vader-I-am-your-father/355637"><i>Darth Vader</i></a></i>’s true Father was none other than… Chuck Norris!?! No wonder he has such great power. He is Walker Texas Vader!</p> <p><a href="http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Vader-I-am-your-father/355637"><i>Vader, I am your father</i></a> by <a href="http://www.dabosslogic.com/"><b>Kode Logic</b></a> (<b><a href="http://www.behance.net/daboss">Behance</a></b>) (<a href="http://bosslogic.deviantart.com/"><b>deviantART</b></a>)</p> </blockquote>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/437090361http://awesomelegendary.com/post/437090361Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:04:52 +0100<a href="http://www.program-glitch-esc.net/">TRON trailer</a>: <p>New trailer, way better than the teaser</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/437051420http://awesomelegendary.com/post/437051420Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:34:52 +0100<a href="http://camerondaigle.com/v1/articles/podcamp_nashville_2010_presentation/">PodCamp Nashville 2010 Presentation</a>: <p>Why the iPad is something completely different than a tablet with a conventional OS such as windows or macosx.</p> <p>“every day, your cursor protects you from unclear UI. It helpfully turns into a text cursor as you hover over textboxes, or a hand as you hover over a link or action item”</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/437011292http://awesomelegendary.com/post/437011292Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:03:53 +0100<img src="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kz08ux5v681qzowh2o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Coda is an all in one webdevelopment app for Mac OS X. An iPad version of Coda would be a very welcome app to make little changes to your website on the go. Screenshot taken from the <a title="Coda iPad" href="http://www.panic.com/blog/2010/03/the-panic-status-board/">panicblog</a>.</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/436463288http://awesomelegendary.com/post/436463288Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:59:21 +0100“perhaps the lack of commenting can be considered a feature”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://cameronmoll.tumblr.com/">Cameron Moll</a></em>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/435046031http://awesomelegendary.com/post/435046031Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:49:36 +0100<img src="http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kytkfktiwZ1qz9w2bo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://log.chrisbowler.com/post/428553745/the-evolution-of-the-hipster-i-especially-love">chrisbowler</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>The evolution of the hipster.</p> <p>I especially love the use of the infamous 3 wolf moon shirt in 2009. [ via <a href="http://twitter.com/docdez">docdez</a> ]</p> </blockquote>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434990745http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434990745Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:07:54 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyypn3YIhH1qzowh2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Find Wally, euh, Steve (Jobs). via <a href="http://wp.appadvice.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/stevejobsoscars.jpg">wp.appadvice.com</a></p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434950388http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434950388Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:36:52 +0100“What if instead of adding new features, a company concentrated on making the service or product much easier to use? Or making it much easier to access the advanced features it already has, but that few can master? Maybe what they lose in market share in one area will be more than compensated for in another area. In a lot of markets, it’s gotten so bad out there that simply being usable is enough to make a product truly remarkable.”<br/><br/> - <em>Kathy Sierra - <a href="http://52weeksofux.com/post/433129245/make-less-more">Make Less More - 52 Weeks of UX </a></em>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434909911http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434909911Mon, 08 Mar 2010 18:05:52 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyyg37d7nR1qzowh2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Pixar vs. Dreamworks</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434869688http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434869688Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:34:51 +0100<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s0ysj81EjAo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s0ysj81EjAo&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ysj81EjAo&feature=player_embedded">Porsche 918 Spyder Concept</a></p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434864301http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434864301Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:51 +0100<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyyixjR5vq1qz7lxdo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://blog.yimmyayo.com/">yimmyayo</a>)</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434826396http://awesomelegendary.com/post/434826396Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:01:50 +0100<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/technology/07reboot.html?sudsredirect=true">New York Isn’t Silicon Valley, and That’s Why They Like It</a>: <p>And so does Barney Stinson</p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432696129http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432696129Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:41:55 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyk7na0LUJ1qatctmo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://curvedwhite.com/post/431048764/9-40-new-bond-street-by-matt-stuart">curvedwhite</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>“<a title="9/40 New Bond Street" href="http://www.mattstuart.com/Photographs/Colour/09-NEW-BOND-STREET">9/40 New Bond Street</a>” by <a title="Matt Stuart" href="http://www.mattstuart.com">Matt Stuart</a></p> </blockquote>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432649778http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432649778Sun, 07 Mar 2010 18:11:54 +0100“If the iPhone didn’t exist, I would have the Nexus One in my pocket right now—but then again, if the iPhone didn’t exist, the Nexus One wouldn’t either.”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.macworld.com/article/146788/2010/03/nexus_one_iphone.html?lsrc=twt_jsnell">Jason Snell: iPhone lessons from Google’s Nexus One</a> (via <a href="http://www.marco.org/">marco</a>)</em>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432602567http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432602567Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:41:16 +0100“He was in charge of a huge country with nuclear weapons on the verge of collapse. It was scary. At times drinking was probably the only way of alleviating the stress, a safety valve”<br/><br/> - <em><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7052415.ece"> The sober truth behind Boris Yeltsin’s drinking problem - Times Online </a> (via <a href="http://arnoboerman.tumblr.com/">arnoboerman</a>)</em>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432588653http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432588653Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:31:53 +0100<img src="http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyv9omfPUe1qzowh2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Tokyo, 1865. via <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Edo_Panorama_old_Tokyo_color_photochrom.jpg">upload.wikimedia.org</a></p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432543422http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432543422Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:00:53 +0100<img src="http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyws3o1fHG1qakxnno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://arnoboerman.tumblr.com/post/432196779/after-finding-a-warehouse-full-of-stolen-shoes" class="tumblr_blog">arnoboerman</a>:</p> <blockquote><p>After finding a warehouse full of stolen shoes, police struck on a “Cinderella solution,” letting the public claim shoes that fit. - <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/world/asia/07shoe.html?ref=global-home">Seoul Police Link 1,700 Pairs of Shoes to 2 Feet - NYTimes.com</a></p></blockquote>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432256697http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432256697Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:03:30 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kyv96pdsZd1qzowh2o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://minimalissimo.com/2010/03/plus-house/">Plus House . Minimalissimo</a></p>http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432188207http://awesomelegendary.com/post/432188207Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:56:06 +0100