Learn how to learn, and stick with principles; mastering individual technologies will follow.
Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. The best people in our métier are those who know how to quickly become experts in some particular field.
Readers, journalists and experts are all invited to the table to share their opinions, exchange ideas and resolve issues. Together at the Roundtable, news becomes debate, conversation, an experience. / Project pitch for Knight-Mozilla’s Learning Lab.
A couple nifty tricks we do: we use the HTML5 History API to maintain pretty-looking URLs even though it’s an AJAX app (falling back on hash-fragments for older browsers); and we often render our Closure templates server-side so the page renders before any JavaScript is loaded, then the JavaScript finds the right DOM nodes and hooks up event handlers, etc. to make it responsive.
The role of the designer has shifted
Apple has recognized what many in the tech industry are still learning: that users are truly at the center of their business. It relies upon millions of hobbyists, developers, and hackers to transform its products from good to great by selling cool and useful apps in the App Store. Think about it: what would the iPad be without Flipboard and that fantastic Twitter app? What would the iPhone be without Pandora and Angry Birds? In essence, Apple is allowing other people to determine the ultimate fate of its products.
Great read. Adam Silver makes some good points — interesting to analyze how the design landscape is shifting with the power of the Internet as well.
4chan Founder On Identity
“The cost of failure is really high when you’re contributing as yourself,” Poole said. In the case of 4chan, users feel a lot more comfortable trying to create funny images that can become memes, because content that doesn’t catch on disappears quickly, and they’re not weighed down by their failures. Poole said another benefit to 4chan’s anonymity is that content becomes more important than the creator, which is unlike virtually any other online community. Rather than prioritizing the most valued and experienced users, 4chan allows anyone to access the site and post something that might take off.”
Source: alexainslie
iWant.
One week until Finland
Absolutely insane. Can’t believe it’s already almost here. There’s so much to do before departure, I wonder how I’m going to get it all done.
But I can’t even think about that.
Also, here’s where we’re staying:
So excited.
But it seems the more research we do on this topic, the more it grows. And not that the ever-expanding reach of our proposal isn’t great — it’s truly exemplary of how much knowledge there is out there and how much there is I don’t know anything about. And I’m so excited to learn.
But it’s also daunting. After watching a video showcasing Helsinki’s “smart city” technologies centered on concepts of user-driven design, I felt I was able to more fully validate my diverse interests. I felt more convinced that inevitably, I would find some way to make them all intersect. I felt the idea of “user-driven” anything exemplified the kind of uniting “purpose” that all disciplines should have.
cute animals / nomz / web dev / design / writing
