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Sep 24

Design at Facebook

4) Don’t fall in love. Software is impermanent –it is always changing and you need to accept that.

• The goal is to be ok with continuous change.
• Don’t settle for what’s great today. You will fall behind. As a designer, you need to forecast and think about how things will be in a year from now.
• The longest standing design at Facebook was the front page from 2004 -it stayed live for 18 months.
• Example: global navigation redesign. Tried out many ideas over several months. Even yesterday the site header changed.
• More than ever our work is never done.
• Run A/B tests for most features. Clearly define metrics up front and measure against those. Don’t let the metrics drive the design.

from http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?879

Sep 04

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Aug 27

IDEO methods

Design thinkers must set out like anthropologists or psychologists, investigating how people experience the world emotionally and cognitively. While designing a new hospital, IDEO staff stretched out on a gurney to see what the emergency room experience felt like. “You see 20 minutes of ceiling tiles,” says Brown, and realize the “most important thing is telling people what’s going on.” In a completely different venue, IDEO visited a NASCAR pit crew to come up with a more effective design for operating theaters.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/357/

Aug 19

image from the axion banner concert (via Boondoggle Belgium)

Aug 18

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Aug 13

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Aug 07

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Jul 07

Atelier LaDurance | The Japanese Denim Packaging

by http://www.stormhand.com/

jose Guadalupe Posada

His use of skeletons as a metaphor for a corrupt society ranks Posada as a pioneer expressionist. For these transgressions, he was thrown into jail on several occasions.

He died on January 20, 1913, as poor as he had been born. He was buried in a sixth class grave (the lowest category) in the Dolores Cemetery. Since nobody claimed the remains, they were thrown out seven years after his death. The recognition that eluded Posada during his lifetime would come after his death. There are collections of his works at the Bellas Artes National Institute, the Biblioteca de Mexico (“Library of Mexico”), the National Library of Anthropology and History and the Municipal Archive of the city of León.

Fruta Del Diablo

want this salsa!

Jul 06

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Jun 22

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Jun 21

the gestalt of the ipod

May 28

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