It's Me, Andi.

This song makes me cry almost every time I see this episode...

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 20:04:10 -0400

This song makes me cry almost every time I see this episode (with my 4yo daughter *ahem* of course). I think of my grandmother getting dementia, knowing she was getting dementia, taking care of whatever she could during her lucid moments.

Anyway. It’s sad. And poetic.

motherjones: The Goliaths of the tech industry already...

Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:53:53 -0500

motherjones:

The Goliaths of the tech industry already destroyed SOPA—now they’re attempting to take down privacy laws in Europe.

Why We Love Beautiful Things - NYTimes.com

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 11:52:21 -0500

Why We Love Beautiful Things - NYTimes.com:

gregmelander:

GREAT design, the management expert Gary Hamel once said, is like Justice Potter Stewart’s famous definition of pornography — you know it when you see it.

Monday LOLs: he becomes a teapot! norcross: cannot. stop....

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:24:58 -0500

Monday LOLs: he becomes a teapot!

norcross:

cannot. stop. laughing

10knotes:

thisisalifeyoucantdenyus:

Everyone looks worried apart from that guy on the far left..

i like how the guy on the right is so shocked he becomes a teapot

he becomes a teapot

he becomes a teapot

I’ve been laughing for the last 7 minutes because of the teapot guy

motherjones: CHART: Americans didn’t intend to elect a...

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 13:20:10 -0500

motherjones:

CHART: Americans didn’t intend to elect a Republican majority to the House of Representatives. But thanks to GOP-engineered redistricting, they did.

helloyoucreatives: The new Unicef Pinterest campaign will make...

Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:43:54 -0400

helloyoucreatives:

The new Unicef Pinterest campaign will make you feel bad for repinning those diamond studded salad tongs.

Agency Weapon7 created the profile of a 13 year old girl from Sierra Leone and filled her Pinterest board with the things she wanted. In contrast to other people’s pins, her desires are much more urgent. Food, water, a decent education – the basics of life.

Check it here

I need this framed on the office wall.

Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:45:58 -0400

I need this framed on the office wall.

Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: “Never use black.”

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:15:49 -0400

Cameron Moll / Designer, Speaker, Author: “Never use black.”:

cameronmoll:

Ian Storm Taylor:

When you put pure black next to a set of meticulously picked colors, the black overpowers everything else. It stands out because it’s not natural. All of the ‘black’ everyday objects around you have some amount of light bouncing off of them, which means they aren’t black,…

UX Pet Peeve of the Day: Help pages not including applicable links

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 19:03:51 -0400

redheadjessica:

I hate when help / FAQ pages tell you where to go and don’t bother to link to that page, too. “Go here and click on this.” JUST LINK ME!

If this:
<p>Forgot your password? Go to the login page and click on 
<a href="http://yourapp.com/forgot">“forgot password”</a>.</p>
is harder for you than this:
<p>Forgot your password? Go to the login page and click “forgot password”.</p>
… you probably shouldn’t be building apps anyway.

Then again, if you need a help document for resetting a password, you’re doing it wrong.

"Without having and using a real high-DPI computer, all you can do is add high-resolution images for..."

Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:21:55 -0400

“Without having and using a real high-DPI computer, all you can do is add high-resolution images for the design you already have. You’ll miss the nuance of what looks good and what works well on a Retina Mac, because you won’t really be using one. Even an iPad 3 isn’t the same.”

- Marco Arment on why web designers need a Retina MacBook Pro (via hanerinos)

by fab ciarolo

Tue, 05 Jun 2012 14:49:02 -0400

by fab ciarolo

I need to find a use for this color. It’s...

Thu, 17 May 2012 13:20:55 -0400

I need to find a use for this color. It’s gorgeous.

prettycolors:

#ff755e

motherjones: crookedindifference: Kathrine Switzer - 1967...

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 18:06:14 -0400

motherjones:

crookedindifference:

Kathrine Switzer - 1967 Boston Marathon

Two miles into the 1967 Boston Marathon, an official tried to eject Kathrine Switzer from the race simply because she was a woman. Switzer tells producer Phoebe Judge the story about an amateur coach, a feisty official, and a race that helped change running for women in America.

Listen to her tell the amazing story on PRI’s The Story.

This is a pretty awesome sequence of photos.

Words to live by, especially in the world of web design.

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:27:55 -0400

Words to live by, especially in the world of web design.

We’ve been building an app looking for...

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 07:24:14 -0400

We’ve been building an app looking for something better than QR Codes for a while now … Is this it?

Move over QR code, it’s time for the Touch Code

Ever since mobile was invented, advertisers have been looking at ways to quickly transfer information between their message and the device. We started with bluetooth, then came along barcodes, QR codes and finally more recently RFID and NFC. But all have failed in many ways. Many rely on the phones camera, something that differs between devices. Whatever the reason for their failure, consumers have been slow to take up any of these.

Could the clever guys over at TouchCode fixed this age-old problem? Perhaps. Have a watch above and see for yourselves. I have to say, the technology certainly looks interesting. The codes are invisible, can be printed on any printer and more importantly, can be read by any smart phone. It almost seems too good to be true doesn’t it? There seems to be lots of uses for them too. However, with an app needed to be installed in order to access the information, are consumers not facing the same barriers as before? I guess, only time will tell.

helloyoucreatives: The art of mockery.

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:10:00 -0400

helloyoucreatives:

The art of mockery.

I get asked this a lot.

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:34:30 -0500

I get asked this a lot.

gregmelander: CHIEF EMOTIONS OFFICER “”As a type-A guy who’s...

Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:20:19 -0500

gregmelander:

CHIEF EMOTIONS OFFICER

“”As a type-A guy who’s spent more than my share of time on the hedonic treadmill, I can tell you that it’s very difficult to simultaneously practice gratitude while also pursuing gratification.” fourhourworkweek.com via Noah Spitzer

luckyshirt: The English language challenged by a...

Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:57:17 -0500

luckyshirt:

The English language challenged by a 102-year-old.

Two “English so crazy” posts in two days, I know.

But I’ve been running into this stuff while working on a project of mine, and I love this kind of thing.

Man, it'd be awesome if people paid as much attention to Rick Santorum's scandalous guzzling of public school money as they did to his friggin' sweater vests.

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:25:23 -0500

Man, it'd be awesome if people paid as much attention to Rick Santorum's scandalous guzzling of public school money as they did to his friggin' sweater vests.:

motherjones:

To be clear: we’re not saying you shouldn’t pay attention to Rick Santorum’s sweaters. But you really should read this: Read how the public-school-loathing GOP candidate used Pennsylvania’s taxpayer dollars to school his kids in Virginia.