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Designer Numbers

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:46:00 GMT

Khoi Vinh on designers in numbers: Great Numbers, Not So Great Design.

Design and the Elastic Mind

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:47:00 GMT

50 Ways to Help the Planet

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 23:07:00 GMT

I Love the Whole World

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:56:00 GMT

Great Discovery Channel promo. Love it. (Not for hardened cynics)

Damn Urgency

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:18:00 GMT

37signals post about how Urgency is Poisonous.

Not only is it poisonous but it seems to be everywhere. It's almost like people think something is up if it is not urgent. People can be organised and get things done well without incessant pressure(stress) which just leads to more disorganisation and then off we go to more pressure and so on. I personally find that urgency stems from disorganisation or procrastination in the first place.

Steve Jobs on Design

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:01:00 GMT

"Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."
Quoted from a magazine interview with Steve Jobs, in a 2003 in the New York Times.

Panic Software on how they started

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 11:16:00 GMT

Cabel Sasser from Panic Software the guys who make Transmit (great FTP software for the Mac and the excellent Coda web dev software ) talks about how they started and about their process etc.

Milton Glaser, 6 minutes with the man

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:30:00 GMT

Milton Glaser is such a fantastic inspiration.

Making Volkswagen's Giant Website

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:09:00 GMT

Where Your Product Fits In

naoise@marinosoftware.com (Naoise Guerin) — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 14:03:00 GMT

Steven Frank, co-founder of Panic software who make great Mac software including Transmit and Coda blogs about how a product succeeds in the marketplace.

From the post: "My current hypothesis is that there are at least three positions of prominence in each segment—three ways to be number one, if you will: The First One, The Free One, and The Good One." Full blog post here: The First, The Free and The Good...

We would tend to agree with that one.