YakShaving

Yak•Shaving (noun) Any apparently useless activity which, by allowing you to overcome intermediate difficulties, allows you to solve a larger problem

Month: January, 2008

Voice Activated iPhone applications, please.

It’s a phone, thus, a mic to capture audio. It’s got a pretty swift safari browser that’s AJAX compatible. Why haven’t people made voice activated web apps yet? It confounds me. The only thing I’ve found that’s remotely close is this inelegant solution by Ask.com that seems cobbled together. (SMS + Web + Voice?) (Actually, [...]

Prophetic. Jeepers.

“Our enormously productive economy … demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption…. we need things consumed, burned up, replaced, and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate.” – Victor Lebow, 1955 Someone just [...]

links for 2008-01-18

PSDTuts – Photoshop Tutorials and Links – Advanced Glow Effects (tags: photoshop effect design) Advancing Advanced Search – Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design (tags: search findability)

Dear GMail usability team, Please make it easier to purge mail

Why don’t you believe in “Deleting” an email and going to the next one? Why launch users back to the Inbox? Why can I archive and go to the next message, but not DELETE and go to the next message? I realize it “looks” the same, but there’s some psychological neurosis some of us have [...]

ID Strategy Conference 2008

For regular readers who aren’t ID students, I wanted to give you a reminder and heads up that this year’s Strategy Conference is coming up in May. I am already extremely excited about the speakers coming this year. I am working with several esteemed colleagues here at the Institute of Design in putting together a [...]

Spring 2008 classes, if you were wondering.

Well boys and girls, it’s going to be a busy semester again here at ID, but meh, might as well be, this spring break will be all the more restful and relaxing. Maybe I’ll even skip taking an intersession and go on a two week vacation? Cultural Human Factors Social Human Factors Design Analysis Design [...]

Hyperminimalism

flickr cred: Fib Ok, okay. After pretty much a month long hiatus in Philadelphia, I am back to yakshaving. Well, I have always been performing the act of yak shaving, but I am back to blogging I mean. To tell the truth, I kinda missed writing for the heck of it. I’m not a graphomaniac [...]

links for 2008-01-14

Education‽Blog List (tags: education technorati) Begley: Mind Reading Is Now Possible | Newsweek Voices – Sharon Begley | Newsweek.com (tags: cognition mind neuroscience)

links for 2008-01-12

Meryl.net » 70+ PowerPoint and Presentation Resources and Great Examples (tags: Powerpoint presentation resources design inspiration)

links for 2008-01-10

Monday Inspiration: Innovative Designs and Devices | Design Showcase, Monday Inspiration | Smashing Magazine (tags: design device innovation)

links for 2008-01-07

Tutorial Search Engine – Search For Tutorials (tags: tutorial technical reference) Social Networks in Education » home (tags: technology education socialnetworks) A VC: What My Kids Tell Me About The Future of Media (tags: media transformation ventureCapital)

links for 2008-01-06

Trends | The future of futurology | Economist.com (tags: futurism trends business)

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