Talk about a design challenge. This guy lives in less than 100 square feet and has started a company for people who want to do the same. It’s part of the whole modern prefab movement to battle rising home prices (although not all are cheaper) and lack of style in current “prefab” homes. More info on the movement here and some cool examples here, here and here.
Business card designs galore.
The world needs more dialog boxes like this.
(Via Daring Fireball)
As long as we’re on the topic, here’s a very well designed, minimalist RV I saw on the freeway the other day. It’s more like a “land dinghy.” Link
Wow. Google does it again with Street View. They even map the vanishing points up right on many of the shots. Amazing.
For those of you who often confuse your hyperbolic tree with your swim lane, the Galactic Network spawns the following: A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods.
I was exploring the Mac OS X Character Palette again this morning and noticed something I hadn’t seen before. If you choose “View: All Characters” and then “Miscellaneous Scripts,” You’ll find the Deseret Alphabet. For the uninitiated, this was a phonetic alphabet created by the early saints to help immigrants in their move to English. It ships with Mac OS X by default!
“Companies that excel at customer service are the ones that empower their employees to make it happen.”Dustin, the gentleman I share my cube with
Tadd mentioned customer service a few posts ago. I’ll follow up with one of my favorite anecdotes about great customer service.
The reason web applications should never break the back button in the browser. For the first month of using Gmail, this was my number one gripe. I eventually got over it, but it took a concerted effort.
Within seconds of watching this demonstration, it’s clear that multi-touch interfaces could dramatically improve the way some people do their work. The question is: When can I buy one?