Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 29th, 2008
Things that prevent good design: incompetent decisions
Of all the organizational things that prevent good designers & developers from creating great products, crappy executive decision processes making really rises to the top. It comes in two flavors: delayed decision ("omg I don’t know what to do so I’ll just flip flop"), and changing your mind late in the game ("well, this can’t […]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
How can we make hard work cool?
Where I live, there are a lot of really overpowered cars. People roll around in Turbo Cayennes, M-series BMWs, and 6L Jeep Cherokees just to show that they’re rich enough. To the credit of the marketing departments of these car companies, they’ve done a spectacular job attaching a product feature of questionable and infrequent value (really […]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Good use of existing frameworks
At Midway International in Chicago (MDW) as you walk into the security area there are signs that direct to different security lines depending on the type of traveler you classify yourself. The signs made sense pretty quickly as I approached, and I realized why:
Family Traveler: profile of a family with children on a green circle
Casual […]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Six days in Seattle - did we forget anything?
Land at SeaTac
Kimchi Bistro
Biking at Alki
Canoeing the Arboretum
Thaiku
Picking blackberries along the sidewalk
Lenin
Troll
Kite from Gasworks Kite Shop
Sailing on Lake Union
Theo Chocolate Factory Tour
Musashi’s in Wallingford
Discovery Park
Watching the Olympics
Errands
Kayaking at Greenlake
“The adventures of Huck Finn” at Taproot Theatre
Playing guitar on the roof
Wedding
Gasworks Frisbee
Writing our own song
Boeing Factory Tour
BBQ in Tangletown
Copland & Organ performance […]