by Tom | Jan 21, 2002 | General
Business Week: The Power of Smart Design. Dennis Boyle, senior design engineer at IDEO. His mission: To make high-tech simple. “People don’t want to read a manual. They don’t want something confusing that makes them look dumb,” he says. “What regular people want is a...
by Tom | Jan 18, 2002 | General
Some more useful .Photoshop tutorials 6:12:15 PM Excellent: the myth of 7+-2. It isn’t true after all. Surely designers just knew that it didn’t make sense. 5:31:24 PM Very interesting research piece on where ecommerce items should be placed. 5:21:49 PM Extreme...
by Tom | Jan 17, 2002 | General
Quantum Gravity Observed. Wow. 6:14:25 PMDreadful conceptual PCs from Intel. I could think of better ones. The only one that was truly novel was the “chair is a computer”. 6:13:45 PMMission Impossible: self destructing silicon. 6:13:03 PMGates memo:...
by Tom | Jan 16, 2002 | General
OperaShow. That’s a cunning thing to add to the browser. This should work on other browsers if they respect the media CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), no? 6:26:15 PMFunny that the internet freak in this story of a dotcom CEO who takes a job at MaccyDs is Saul....
by Tom | Jan 15, 2002 | General
Bugger! 6:21:39 PMApparently the UK is not a nation of hairy-handed sex fiends. 6:15:21 PMInstructions for yanks about how to speak to the English. 12:59:48 PMUnfortunate? 12:58:18 PMKevin Bacon: You’ve Got Mail. Researchers are using e-mail to test the notion...
