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The future is flexible, and we’re bending with it. From responsive web design to futurefriend.ly thinking, we’re moving quickly toward a web that’s more fluid, less fixed, and more easily accessed on a multitude of devices.

As we embrace this shift, we need to relinquish control of our content as well, setting it free from the boundaries of a traditional webpage to flow as needed through varied displays and contexts. In the words of futurefriend.ly’s Brad Frost, “get your content ready to go anywhere because it’s going to go everywhere.”

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I had a dream last night where I was an XCode project | Never Use This Font

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:35:00 PST

I had a dream last night where I was an XCode project. Every time the alarm went off, that was running “Build and Run.” If I would fail to compile, I’d have to fix the errors and try again. The next time the alarm went off, I’d attempt to “run” again, and I kept failing to compile a few times when I kept hitting “snooze.”

The last thing I did before I actually woke up was fix a missing semicolon which finally allowed me to compile and then I was awake.

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Why There Is No Such Thing As A UX Designer | SachaGreif.com

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:32:00 PST

In my mind, the title of “User Experience Designer” does not belong to a single person. Instead, it should be embraced by everybody contributing to the project, whether they are a designer, coder, photographer, writer, or systems administrator. Because after all, their work is what ultimately defines the user’s experience.

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Future Perfect » The Shoes Maketh

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:31:00 PST

If you want to understand a person – look at their shoes, or lack of.

As the most frequently used interface between ourselves and our physical environment more than anything else that we our footwear treads the fine balance between communicating both need and intent.

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Why There Is No Such Thing As A UX Designer | SachaGreif.com

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:30:00 PST

If your site has a painless sign-up process, that’s part of the user experience. If your site uses gorgeous photos, that’s part of the user experience. If your site is unbearably slow, that’s UX too. And if your site is perfect, but there’s a bug in your code and you end up charging people twice as much for your product, well guess what, that’s also part of their (very bad) user experience.

So “user experience design” can include web design, photography, speed optimization, coding, to say nothing of copywriting, branding, security, interaction design, or information architecture.

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The Keyframe Bias – Jack Cheng

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:30:00 PST

Beginning writers, especially those who’ve done a lot of reading, have a tendency to overwrite. I do it all the time. There’s this urge to cram in clever metaphors and flowery prose and think that every sentence needs to be quotable or rebloggable, something worthy of scrawling in dry-erase marker on a dorm room door.

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All systems for developing human potential try to... – Jack Cheng

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:27:00 PST

"All systems for developing human potential try to teach us to know and understand ourselves better."

—Robert Masters & Jean Houston in Listening to the Body: The Psychophysical Way to Health and Awareness

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Astronaut Design » ISO50 Blog – The Blog of Scott Hansen (Tycho / ISO50)

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:25:00 PST

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My Initial Reaction to the Book on Saul Bass : DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:24:00 PST

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Talking about the Launch of Undercurrent.com : DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:23:00 PST

Below are some of the screen shots of the site in various devices.

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Why Doesn’t the New Yorker iPad App link out to Articles Discussed in the Mail Section? : DesignNotes by Michael Surtees

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:21:00 PST

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The Joy of Tech comic... How to keep Google from watching your searches.

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:14:00 PST

Use encyclopedias instead of the Internet. Just accept the fact that using the Internet means giving up your privacy. Just decide that you know enough already, and never search again.

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Frank Chimero — Blog

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:05:00 PST

I like this too. It reminds me of the early Sesame Street videos about shapes, especially this one with music by Philip Glass.

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Sites we like: CIR, PRE/POST, and Kern and Burn « The Typekit Blog

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:01:00 PST

Kern and Burn is an online and print publication that curates discussions, interviews, and essays about design entrepreneurship. Here, again, is Adelle, this time confident and classy in both headlines and paragraphs; while Nimbus Sans serves well as small, neutral text.

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Fri, 25 May 2012 18:37:08 PDT

powells:

fuckyeahreading:

What speed do you read? (Remember, it’s not a race!)

PS: photo-reply is turned on :)

This was fun. (Seems, perhaps not surprisingly, we read pretty fast.)

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Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:55 PDT

eliz:

Had some fun with Blink/Steady bike lights last night at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

There are 3 more days to get in on their Kickstarter!

Easy, Secure, Beautiful. Machined from solid aluminum, the Blink/Steady bike light turns on automatically and shuts off when you’re not riding. There’s no need to remove it when you lock up because it’s secured by your seatpost. Our elegant, low-profile design is the bike light you’ve been waiting for - please help us make one for you!