Category: General
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Screen real estate
I’ve found that I work much better if I have two very large monitors – but because I travel a lot, I’m often constrained to my 15″ MacBook Pro screen. I’m not alone: Completely adjusted to working on large second screen for wireframes. Designing on 15″ MacBook Pro feels awkward. — Rebecca Cottrell (@rivalee) June […]
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Ani DiFranco’s crowdsourced video for “Which Side Are You On?”
It’s nice to see my favorite musician embrace social media a little more: Here she is on Twitter and Facebook. I came to the project late, and I’m not sure how the photos were contributed; there’s a site at whichside.net, but it’s not hugely inspiring. Nonetheless, the song is, and it’s a great start.
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The river and the tide
Most data on the web comes as a river. Blog posts, photos, Facebook updates, tweets, news stories, videos, cloud files – all lists with the newest at the top. It’s the design pattern of the Internet. Within this design pattern, there are four main places where innovation can occur: How you consume the river. How […]
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Attending a wedding at 5am (in my pyjamas)
A few weeks ago, my friends Mark and Sana got married in Oxford Town Hall. My sister Hannah and I were invited, but sadly couldn’t attend, on the grounds that we were over 5,000 miles and an ocean away. They’re both wonderful people, and I’ve known Sana in particular for a very long time, so […]