May 2012
8 posts
Workshop →
Go learn how to do something. Some fun classes during the month of May.
Principles of User Interface Design →
“To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit; it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse.” - Paul Rand
Welcome to the Era of Design
All businesses, no matter what they make or sell, should recognize the power and financial value of good design.
Obviously, there are many different types of design: graphic, brand, packaging, product, process, interior, interaction/user experience, Web and service design, to name but a few.
In this post, I am referring to design as a broad and deliberately applied discipline, with the aim of...
Steve Jobs: hiring the best is your most important...
Excerpts from the book In the Company of Giants: Candid Conversations with the Visionaries of the Digital World, 1997, published in BusinessWeek in 1998.
What talent do you think you consistently brought to Apple and bring to NeXT and Pixar?
I think that I’ve consistently figured out who really smart people were to hang around with. No major work that I have been involved with has been work...
Future of the Earth, the Solar System and the...
600 million years from now we’re in trouble.
36,000 years from now Ross 248 passes within 3.024 light years of Earth, becoming the closest star to the Sun.[3]
42,000 Alpha Centauri becomes the nearest star system to the Sun once more.[3]
50,000 According to the work of Burger and Loutre,[4] at this time the current interglacial ends, sending the Earth back into an ice age, assuming...
