Last week, Caterina Fake wrote about the a social observation she made at SXSW which she called FOMO — Fear Of Missing Out: people checking their Twitter and Foursquare feeds to see who was where, doing what, to make sure that they were in the right place at the right time with the right people. [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Productivity'
I am a stencil
March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Pleasure, User Experience
This happened five months ago, and I was so stunned by the honor that I think I pushed it somewhere deep into my subconscious until now. In Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville and Jeffrey Callender, there are these cute people icons that accompany various illustrations throughout the book. There was so much [...]
Tags:Branding·Design·Pleasure·Productivity·Props·Tools·User Experience
Yet another list of iPad apps (what I use)
January 12th, 2011 · 10 Comments · Productivity
I’m pretty obsessed with my iPad. When I first bought it back in April, I didn’t take my laptop out of the house for a good month. I watched movies in the park, showed samples of my work to prospective clients, read my feeds in the bath, and tested out a whole bunch of apps. [...]
Tags:iPad·Mobile·Productivity·Tools
Photo of the day: Follow this line
January 11th, 2011 · 7 Comments · Photography
I walked into the Barnes & Noble on 18th Street and Fifth Ave the other day, and found something curious. Lines of colored tape along the floor. As I approached a sales guy for help finding something, I overheard him talking to the gentleman before me: “Just follow the yellow line to the end and [...]
Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts
December 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Design, User Experience
I’m a Tweetie fanatic — even if they haven’t updated Tweetie for Mac in ages and probably never will again — so I don’t use the #newtwitter web app very much at all. The other day I just happened to look at the footer and notice a link labeled Shortcuts. It opens the following layer: [...]
Tags:Accessibility·Productivity·Usability Evaluations·User Experience·Webapps
