Just listened to This Week In Tech, episode 149. About an hour in, the panel took a brief break from trading Bill Gates stories and got into a discussion of the future of computers and the science thereof. Jerry Pournelle predicted that in three or four years, computers will have 64 cores and virtually infinite computing power, memory, and storage capacity. As a result, … Read the rest
While walking to and from class the other day, I listened to a podcast of Daniel Burka, digg’s creative director, speaking at Web Directions North back in January. He discussed many of the design choices they’ve made at digg and Pownce, including the sites’ initial layouts and digg’s infamous comments section. One thing that I found particularly interesting was what he said about the … Read the rest
This afternoon, The Next Web posted a compelling documentary that premiered on Friday at The Next Web Conference entitled The Truth According To Wikipedia. It’s discusses the importance and trustworthiness of Wikipedia and the Web 2.0 zeitgeist as a whole. It features interview segments with Wikipedia founders Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales, and the firm anti-Web 2.0 rhetoric of Andrew Keen, author of Cult … Read the rest
fadtastic posted a good article on home pages and initial-load experience. Here’s a taste:
Normally, what you want your home page to do is give is [sic] a balance between showing the user what they expect to see and attracting them to areas of your site they might not have known about but that you want them to be tempted by.
fadtastic: The New Shop Window … Read the rest
Constraints are a designer’s best friend. They’re signposts, not shackles. In a sense, constraints amount to the solution half-built. It is merely up to us to then realize the other half according to what these signposts indicate is appropriate. Nowhere in this concept does self-expression find any valid foothold.
A List Apart: Articles: On Creativity
While getting caught up on A List Apart, this paragraph by … Read the rest