willifred

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by willifred 15y ago
This might be helpful too, a very good book on the basics: http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Grammar-Design-Briefs-Christian...
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by willifred 15y ago
I can understand feeling frustrated, but it's a little unfair on yourself. Most designers hone their ability through constant application of their skill, not to mention very often years of expensive schooling. Nobody does it overnight. Alth
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by willifred 15y ago
> there's an awkward separation between high culture and popular culture, mostly based on how old something is. That's an interesting notion that may prove true in the future, but a few exceptions aside, I don't think it accurately desc
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by willifred 15y ago
> Flash does absolutely nothing to prevent someone from saving copies of images. This is only true if Flash is loading external jpegs. If they're embedded in a swf, you would have to go through a great deal more trouble to extract image
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by willifred 15y ago
I was left wondering why didn't he just export his mailbox. Or add his GMail account to Mail.app and just drag and drop his old inbox into his new Google inbox. There is absolutely no 'lock-in' with Apple's Mail client. The strangest part w
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by willifred 15y ago
But I'd wager that most Lion users have a pointing device that enables easy scrolling: a trackpad, magic mouse, magic trackpad, or a mouse with a scroll wheel.
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by willifred 15y ago
Your wish has been granted. There's a full text transcript here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-re...
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by willifred 15y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I now see that there are a number of parallels—but I still think the contrasts are more striking. First of all, Eric Schmidt did an excellent job. In 2011, Page inherited a that is hugely profitable, practi
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by willifred 15y ago
What are the similarities in position between Jobs/Apple in 1997 and Page/Google now?
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by willifred 15y ago
While you make a valid point, I also think the parent post might have been also making a different one. It's not so much whether these markets existed prior, but that Google is entering these markets with vastly more resources and (often) w
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by willifred 15y ago
Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for whom to consider including in correspondence. It hasn't sugg
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by willifred 15y ago
I can't resist plugging audiotool: http://www.audiotool.com/ It's flash, but it's mind blowingly amazing.
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by willifred 15y ago
From the Lifehacker review: > It's also worth noting that they're looking to crack down on piracy, so depending on how well it works and how much of your music is illegal, that could be a deal killer for some. This would be a deal kille
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by willifred 15y ago
This and the picture of a laptop in a slide during the Ice Cream announcement made me wonder if this means Android is coming to the laptop form factor, and/or other 'PC' form factors. Certainly would be interesting.
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by willifred 15y ago
Ease of deployment might be why this very blog post is published on Wordpress.
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by willifred 15y ago
Jason Fried has a great piece on this idea: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/575-but-theres-only-so-many-w...
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by willifred 15y ago
To me it makes perfect sense. For many people, web browsers have very little to differentiate them. Chrome's single major differentiator is that it's fast. If you asked the average person what's different about Chrome— they probably wouldn'
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by willifred 15y ago
While the article raises some valid points, I question the use of compete.com figures to make any claims about foursquare's declining traffic.
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by willifred 15y ago
This is an older but relevant post from a former Google designer: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html More anecdotally, I find that the best design and illustration I've seen from Google is usually on a very small
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by willifred 15y ago
I love the line, 'you can't commoditize good design.' I just want to read it over and over. Design has been so further commoditized in recent years, it's a wonderful reminder that design is much more than application of style.
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by willifred 15y ago
I agree that the author's points are purely speculative, but the situation kind of demands speculation, since the official answer was very unsatisfying. The tablet market somehow seems more competitive than mobile is currently, and third pa
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by willifred 16y ago
>200 engineers and 50 in 'overhead' (designers, marketing etc.) Is this a deliberate attempt to troll or are designers nothing but overhead? Poor design, particularly poor interface design, is considered a major factor in many of Google
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by willifred 16y ago
The Apple board reduced Steve Jobs's role at Apple to ceremonial/figurehead. Steve Jobs actually resigned from Apple. http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...
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by willifred 16y ago
I started using SRWare Iron, which is like a more tinfoil version of Chromium, for this reason.
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by willifred 16y ago
Because it's a usurpation of my role as the administrator of my system. Because it necessitates a level of comfort with a company—whose business model is based on collecting and selling user data—rooting my system, and trusting that they're
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by willifred 16y ago
Security and convenience at the expense of control and privacy. I like knowing what's installed on my computer. I realize that I'm going to have to go into the future kicking and screaming.
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by willifred 16y ago
I love Chrome, but I hate silent updates. The majority of Chrome users have no idea that their browser is silently updating itself without their knowledge or consent, and if they did, they wouldn't have any idea how to shut it off. I can th
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by willifred 16y ago
Mac Pros used to (maybe still do) come with a fully registered group licensed version, along with Art Director's Toolkit, which is an absolutely awesome tool.