January 2012
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Today’s active citizen’s know the real issue isn’t left or...
– Joseph Snook. Featured in his article here.
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Apple in Education →
The problem is, how is every student going to be able to afford a $500 device. When parents fight against buying $100 shoes, how are real students going to afford these new wonderful textbooks? Where I grew up, only about 10 out of 300 families would be able to afford this. If they are supplied by the schools, wonderful, but its hard to see what in reality, especially where I went to school.
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Portland
The thing about the Northwest is the weather. Yes, the nature here far suprasses Michigan, but what about the weather? This Northwest is about 75% of the time you don’t want to go outside. Slight rain and grey days. Seriously. Yes, the landscape here is general outside the cities is absolutely amazing, but what difference does that make, when 75% of the time the weather is so slowly depressing...
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December 2011
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Loyalty, My Dear Customer →
Good write up about the new trend of web-based companies transitioning from free to paid systems. I believe that every company that finds future success in their web communities already understand this core thinking. But, its always good to refresh the mind on what I believe is “design” - experience, behavior and their aesthetic attitude.
From Micah Rich.
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PIxel Firefplace App →
c4jones2:
This is a really cool little app that turns your screen into a pixelated fireplace. It’s really simple and really cool. Go check it out, Mac and PC versions available.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! :)
theskywriter:
The Age Of Rockets - Avada Kedavra (The Skywriter Mix) by TheSkywriter
Thanks to Andrew Futral of @ageofrockets for providing an acapella track for everyone a while back for remixes :)
MERR CRISMUH!
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design blurb
Never sacrifice pure functionally over pure visual aesthetics, but also beware that user experience can define a product’s functionally and in return aesthetically-rationale user experience can determine the visual aesthetics.
It is a loop that has steps within steps, but never underestimate the basic understanding of Form follows Function.
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