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'As they added new features, their conversations with users had changed – they became more narrowly focused on new features and whether each individual change was usable and useful. Somewhere along the way, they'd stopped observing the entire user experience, from end to end. This didn't last very long – maybe a month or two, but it was long enough to cause problems.'
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links for 2011-01-30
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'Although colleagues who worked in atonal music objected when their music was described as cerebral or academic, Mr. Babbitt embraced both terms and came to be regarded as the standard-bearer of the ultrarational extreme in American composition.'
links for 2011-01-29
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'unrest in Egypt — fueled by frustrations over government corruption, economic stagnation and a decided lack of political freedom — came after weeks of turmoil across the Arab world that toppled one leader in Tunisia and encouraged protesters to overcome deep-rooted fears of their autocratic leaders and take to the streets.'
links for 2011-01-28
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'MoMA has just acquired 23 digital typefaces for its Architecture and Design Collection. Some are of everyday use, like Verdana; others are familiar characters in our world, like Gotham, which was used in President Obama’s election campaign, or OCR-A, which we can find at the bottom of any product’s bar code; and others are still less common, but exquisitely resonant, like Walker or Template Gothic.'
links for 2011-01-27
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Wolfenstein reduced to a 1-pixel-high line.
links for 2011-01-25
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A new way for indie game devs to pass the dime around.
links for 2011-01-24
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'Dr. Gentile suggested that teenagers who are experiencing problems may retreat into gaming, and that the gaming may, in turn, increase their depression and isolation.'
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'A vague and gnawing pang of anxiety centered around an IM window that has lulled. A sudden and irrational rage in response to reading an ‘@-reply’ on Twitter.'
links for 2011-01-19
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Why does HTML 5 need a logo?
links for 2011-01-18
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'Bubble Ball is the work of 14-year-old Robert Nay, an eighth grader…. [He] managed to take a free version of Angry Birds Seasons… down with his very first iPhone game.'
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' Instead of making design a more integral, universal and respected part of business, it creates another silo, another separation. Another category of specialists that builds one more barrier to the kind of real systems thinking we need to survive.'
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'In some cases, your research participants can feel like the proverbial stone from which you’re trying to draw blood. So what constitutes a good interview?'