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Does anyone else find it absurd that there’s no button to turn on full screen view in the MacOSX version of Firefox? Get on the ball Mozilla.

Overheard at the Foster El stop in Evanston between two [seemingly] college-aged students, one donning a black hoodie and the other slightly larger built wearing a red coat. black hoodie: I didn’t even finish my homework for this class, I was addicted to second life last night talking to Erica and I fell asleep. red [...]

(Design) Considerations for Home-Based Devices (MDDI archive, Feb 08) (tags: health design usability interface medical informatics)

Market Movers: Lessons from a Frontier of Innovation (tags: sustainability business CSR development innovation)

There’s nothing quite like installing a piece of software and seeing more and more tiny green blocks on your screen is there? I can’t say I miss the days of installing windows applications since I made the Switch(tm). I’ve gotten kinda used to doing the old drag-and-drop into my “Applications” folder. In any event, I [...]

We salute you. Hang on tight, this year will see tons of great iPhone applications. For aforementioned independent study project, we’re looking into using the iPhone developer’s kit as a quick and dirty way to prototype interfaces. I’ll let you know how it goes soon enough. If anyone has some insight or experience into using [...]

Larry Lessig flickr: Peter Kaminski It’s pretty rare that I use this blog as a place to help campaign for a political candidate. If I did that too much, you might run away and never come back. But this time, it’s worth it. I’ve been staying away from the Presidential election because I don’t want [...]

As most of my friends and some of my readers may know, design school [graduate school in general] is an incubated environment for me to test out new ideas with great people, every day. To find people that I would love working with on a regular basis on interesting projects that are meaningful and, dare [...]

Prefab or Prefad? (tags: prefab architecture housing)

Chinese Stealth Startup Qifang Wants to Bring P2P Lending to the Mainland (tags: china p2p lending emerging markets)

The State of Consumption Today | Worldwatch Institute (tags: consumption BoP sustainability)

metacool: On Seth and prototypes and storytelling (tags: story prototypes entrepreneur) Welcome to Maplecroft Maps (tags: maps visualization statistics reference) 25 Firefox Extensions to Make You More Productive (tags: extensions Firefox productivity Software) Welcome to MakeTools.com (tags: design tools prototyping creativity research innovation)