This is an experiment by Paulo Zoom and may end at any time.
No money back guarantee, folks.
No money back guarantee, folks.
Google before you tweet. (via nevver)
The Pilcrows Came Tumbling Down
“ Constant vigilance is the price you pay for an elegant application. This means you have to learn to say «no». Your current customers will ask you for a feature they want. Potential customers will tell you that if you add just one specific feature, they’ll buy the app. You can’t be everything for everyone. You have to let some people be customers of your competitors. ”
The excellent Lukas Mathis on removing features.
“ Nathan Bowers recently wrote that quality is fractal. That is to say quality offerings display self similarity. Any small part of it, is indicative of its whole. This lets you make a good judgement about an entire product by looking at a very small portion of it. This is as true in software as it is in restaurants. ”
Be sure to read the whole post. It’s worth your time.
“ A laptop is a very powerful device even with average hardware specs, you can do a lot with it. But the ability to do a lot comes at the price of reduced usability. Introducing more choices means more mental hurdles to jump. ”
Kyle Meyer right on spot about the iPad.
“ The iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing. It’s […] the device I finally feel comfortable buying my parents. ”
Mike Monteiro on The Failure of Empathy
“ The bet is roughly that the future of computing:
1. has a UI model based on direct manipulation of data objects
2. completely hides the filesystem from the user
3. favors ease of use and reduction of complexity over absolute flexibility
4. favors benefit to the end-user rather than the developer or other vendors
5. lives atop built-to-specific-purpose native applications and universally available web apps. ”
A great article prompted by the launch of the iPad. But not about the iPad, but about the future of computing.
I like the colors more than the illustration style, but still. Less than 2 weeks for my trip to Madrid! (via yaili)
