April 2009
7 posts
Industries of Banality
“Living with friends and colleagues would be a cheap alternative to living alone. People generally don’t do it because it’s not a good thing for humans to do. We are genetically predisposed to need time in solitude occasionally. So instead of living with your friends and colleagues, try living with their disembodied thoughts floating around on your computer and popping up on your desktop...
They just hate their jobs and, by the transitive...
You may start wondering why it is that the agent you’re speaking to seems to be treating you like you just shat into the phone and are forcing them to taste it every time you speak. Maybe it’s you. Is your problem really so stupid? Not really. If it seems like the level two tech is barely even able to feign interest in what you’re saying, it is because he’s barely able to...
WatchI loved this one.
Punchcut Perspective: Considerations for Designing Touch UI
“This term is an oxymoron, since if everyone is following so-called “best...”
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“Allow me to be anal here, and point out that when I say I am “a great admirer”...”
– (via) Amit Varma - Indiauncut.com
CSS is like…
CSS is like chess. You can learn the basics in a day and spend a lifetime mastering it. - @chriscoyier
CSS is like a girlfriend. No matter how hard you try, she will always interpret it a different way. - @BenTortora
CSS is like doing puzzles all day and getting paid for it. - @lise_latorre
Nice UI, Messy Code
When you write code, your goal is to create a clean, maintainable, readable code base.
When you design the user experience, your goal is to create a human-friendly application.
The two goals are at odds, because the user experience is all about the little details, and those little details all end up being messy bits of code you would rather not have to write.
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