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“Here it is: my crazy summer project to reinvent desktop human-computer interaction. This video examines the benefits and limitations inherent in current mouse-based and window-oriented interfaces, the problems facing other potential solutions, and visualizes my proposal for a completely new way of interacting with desktop computers. There's more information at 10gui.com.” - × × ×

Обожаю это видео. И, кстати, у новых вакомов есть мультитач (пока только как в старых макбуках — на два пальца) и они реагируют на прикосновения рук. так что дело за софтом. - Peter Fedin

хорошо мозги и пальцы развивает:) - morose

“In Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable, Nathan Shedroff examines how the endemic culture of design often creates unsustainable solutions, and shows how designers can bake sustainability into their design processes in order to produce more sustainable solutions. Design is the Problem explains: How sustainability isn't as difficult to understand and address as many would have you think Several of the leading frameworks and perspectives on sustainability How to insert sustainability into the development process that you're already using The many, practical strategies that make the products, services, and events you design and develop more sustainable—right now.” - × × ×

"Italian novelist and semiotician Umberto Eco, who is curating a new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris, talks to SPIEGEL about the place lists hold in the history of culture, the ways we try to avoid thinking about death and why Google is dangerous for young people." - × × ×

“This process should be mirrored in a research session in a condensed period of time. After the first ten or fifteen minutes, the participant should feel like you know each other and feel pretty comfortable talking with you about your product or service. After about twenty minutes, the participant should understand the product and its goals. After thirty minutes, the participant should be discussing how the product would fit into his or her life. In order to achieve this, some form of communication training should be implemented. Researchers typically receive a great deal of training in research methods, statistics, human factors and elements of design, but little training on advanced communication. Researchers who really want to invest into their skills as a researcher should think about spending time and energy to learn effective communication methods.” - × × ×

“There are three billion people under twenty-five on this planet...now that's half the worlds population. ¶ The youth sector is stuck in a nasty dichotomy. Simply, you don't have 14 year olds working in marketing departments and you don't have marketing directors hanging out in schools. So how is business to understand young culture? threebillion is interested in two things; firstly how companies are trying to sell their products to young people and secondly what are young people from around the world actually doing. ¶ Rules: 1) threebillion is unashamedly corporate - youth love brands and so do we; 2) threebillion is global - young people in the Ukraine are just as important as the ones in Utah; 3) threebillion is connected - we love linking to interesting articles on other sites” - × × ×

“In short, datasets are organized as collections. Results can be as granular or as big-picture as the user desires, and correlations and patterns are easy to see and examine through powerful but simple visualizations. Imagine browsing through thumbnails representing Kiva loans, then sorting the loans by the different types of businesses they helped established. Or, on a nerdier note, think about riffling through decks of Magic: The Gathering cards, zooming in for larger-than-life detail of the card's artwork and then zooming out to see how each was related or linked to others in the set. This probably reminds you - as it did us - a lot of Wikipedia. But imagine Wikipedia as an infinitely scannable, shuffleable, expandable, retractable, linked, and yet still detachable deck of digital cards; and then you have an inkling of how Pivot looks and feels.” RWW — http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive... - × × ×

“We have four holy icons on the Russia segment. We also have the gospels and a big cross,” wrote Maksim Suraev. “And I have a reliquary cross in my cabin. A priest gave it to me at Baikanur before the launch. Father Job told me a piece of the original cross on which Jesus was crucified is contained in mine.” - × × ×

посты у него чудесные, такие непосредственные. - Peter Fedin

Действительно, отличный блог - justcupoftea

кажется, эта картинка не про сложение, а про вычитание («интересность, цельность и функция — вместе уродливо» — не очень осмысленное утверждение; осмысленное — «интересность, цельность и функция — уродливо в отсутствие формы») - обречённый зверёк¹

... “And there was, like, two brothers, Obi Wan and OB/Gyn”. - × × ×