Category Archives: design
Eating Linux every day
Designer? Thought about Linux but just not sure? Then this is for you:
http://thoughtlounge.squarespace.com/linux-eats/
Living beauty
Reading Roger Scruton’s essay in The Times made me think. I like that. The title of the article is ‘What has art got to do with beauty?’ – in a time of Turner prizes – a very interesting question I am sure you will agree.
The article raises many interesting points and rather than dilute, I [...]
What is a browser?
The lovely people at Google took to the streets with a video camera and asked passers-by three questions:
What is a browser?
What is the difference between a search engine and a browser?
Which browser do you use?
Less than 8% of people interviewed on that day knew what a browser was.
Less than 8% of people interviewed on that [...]
Do design? Do open source?
One evening a few months ago, Leisa and I had dinner and were chatting – as one does – about work and the challenges of design in the open source community.
One outcome of the evening was Leisa going home and registering http://www.designintheopen.org/.
It sat for a while.
Then, last week, as we were chatting about my last [...]
Bye Bye Standby
My TV doesn’t have an off switch.
The stereo doesn’t have a proper off switch either.
In the war against standby this seems to be rather a big obstacle. Each of these devices has a big button which implies that it should be ‘easily turn on and off-able’ (to borrow from the old ad) and yet I [...]
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No, really, which one?
I was chatting away with SavageSays the other day. He had made a (fairly rare) foray to Waitrose to do some grocery shopping. “I didn’t know which Flora to buy” – he said – “I used to buy just plain Flora because I thought it was healthy but now they have loads of them. What’s [...]
All aboard the Facebook train!
I commute. The price I pay for living where I want to and working where I want to is approximately 4 hours a day travelling; about 2 hours 10 minutes of which are spent sitting on a train. I undertake a whole range of activities while I travel: sometimes I sit and think, sometimes I [...]
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Oh, is that how it works?!
“Her first idea was that she had somehow fallen into the sea, `and in that case I can go back by railway,’ she said to herself. Alice had been to the seaside once in her life, and had come to the general conclusion, that wherever you go to on the English coast you find a [...]
Technophobic seniors: include them or boot them out?
Was just sent this link to an article about a phone designed for baby boomers.
I read the article and the intention seems very noble – designing a phone for technophobes (and possibly the infirm?) – the whole experience of using the phone seems to have been considered with full support from an online interface as [...]
What makes a good design critic?