- A List Apart: Articles: Usable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery
‘We’ve long accepted that for a product to be useful, it needs to have acceptable levels of both utility (“whether it provides the features you need”) and usability (“how easy & pleasant these features are to use”). Yet far too often, we seem to ignore the former in favor of the latter, ending up with lots of easy and pleasant applications that have no reason to exist.’
- How White Is The New Internet?
‘White males make up 81 percent of the users at Svbtle, 88 percent of users at App.net, and 61 percent of users at Medium.’
- Lessons Learned Designing Windows 8 Apps – UX Booth | UX Booth
‘The wide scope and deep hierarchy of Rhapsody’s app conflicted with the 3-tiered navigation dictated by Microsoft. In addition, we needed to reconcile the interaction patterns that Rhapsody users are familiar with––such as a persistent player and queue––with Windows 8’s chrome-less design.’
Links for August 30, 2012
Links for August 26, 2012
- Wind Map
- Neil Armstrong, First Man on Moon, Dies at 82 – NYTimes.com
‘Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died Saturday.’
- Average App Store Review Times
Links for August 25, 2012
- VoodooPad from Flying Meat
- Notational Velocity
‘The same area is used both for creating notes and searching. I.e., in the process of entering the title for a new note, related notes appear below, letting users file information there if they choose. Likewise, if a search reveals nothing, one need simply press return to create a note with the appropriate title.’
Links for August 24, 2012
- The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography | The Awl
‘Things were messy then. And type design was messy, too. Words were splayed and chaotic, letters blurred. Textures were thick and heavy. Concert posters looked like someone had splattered paint on paper and then scratched out band names.’
- theNewAesthetic.js
‘An executable-essay / open-source javascript artware-library for quick [re]production of ‘New Aesthetic’ compositions and related new-media art tropes.’
- Zelda: Wind waker Tech and Texture Analysis *picture heavy* – Polycount Forum
Links for August 23, 2012
- 2012 Nominees :: IndieCade – International Festival of Independent Games
Chroma Shuffle is a nominee.
- Strategy and tactics: the best game design of the Paralympics (Wired UK)
‘The ingenuity and creativity of the wide assortment of individuals and associations who have adapted the rules of existing Olympic sports to make them accessible to players of different abilities is a source of real inspiration to me.’
- Heart, Beeps: Don’t (Just) Be Inspired By Beep Baseball | The Classical
‘Beep Baseball is a modified national pastime for the visually-impaired…. Even at an event that’s chock-full of sportsmanship and charitable feeling… there’s a little rivalry, some jingoism, and a dash of chest-thumping sports bluster. Baseball is baseball.
Links for August 22, 2012
- The rise and rise of ‘second screening’ – News release | Deloitte UK
‘Nearly a quarter of all respondents (24%) use second screens. The most active second screening takes place among young people, nearly half of all 16-24 year olds use communication tools such as messaging, email, Facebook, or Twitter to discuss what they are watching on TV*. The vast majority of over 55s (79%) never talk about what they’re watching on TV on the internet.’
- Gameconfs
Holy cats there are a lot of these nowadays.
- The Ugly-Beauty Of Brutalism | The Awl
‘I know plenty of educated people for whom “Brutalism” is simply shorthand for any recent architecture that they happen to dislike. Here “Brutalism” fulfills the same role as “jam bands” as a shorthand category for sweeping disdain.’
- n+1: The Other Modernism
‘From some angles, the building looks like a cement spaceship perched on more firmly terrestrial landing pads. From others, it looks like a ruin almost Roman in its complexity, with a thousand cutouts and panels and skylights and landings and lines that speak both to its designers’ anxious virtuosity and their desire to produce something timeless.’
Links for August 21, 2012
- RyJ – Nicki Minaj Pickle Juice Mix by ryi2012 on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
“chorus-free & mainstream-free Nicki Minaj Mix” Just the verses, ma’am.
Links for August 19, 2012
- Mighty Vision: VESPER.5
A game in which you make one move per day.
- n+1: Pussy Riot Closing Statements
“Passion, total honesty, and naïveté are superior to the hypocrisy, mendacity, and false modesty that are used to disguise crime. The so-called leading figures of our state stand in the Cathedral with righteous faces on, but, in their cunning, their sin is greater than our own.”