It’s surprising how bad people are in the memory department, at least in the details. It’s even more surprising given how we think we are awesome at remembering experiences, life, …
Inertia
In physics, there’s a concept of inertia. It’s the idea that an object at rest stays at rest until acted upon by a force. The thing is, it’s not just …
A Million Different Worlds
It’s easy for designers and engineers to discuss new trends, technologies and the minutiae of our professions. It’s a common occasion that, as an industry, we reference ourselves into a …
Can we just stop? No visual style is right.
Why are we talking about this? Flat-Design, Honest design, Skeuomorphism, Realism, Textured… Can we just stop? Over the past few months I have been seeing countless discussions, arguments and attacks …
A Professional Promise
Professionalism feels good. Doing a solid and professional job has always been something that I heartily enjoy. It makes me glad to see that design is coming into its own …
High Road Ice Cream – A Study in Gestalt Branding
I would like to tell you a story of a company that gets it : Highly successful branding through gestalt thinking.
Hacker News Redesign – More Consumable.
I love Hacker News, it is my main source of tech news. But, I also hate reading it.
Universal patterns for color identification and consensus
In their findings, Vittorio Loreto and Animesh Mukherjee in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences detailed a study on how culture and people develop a hierarchy for identifying and naming colors. This is a …
Design Books Suck
Learning is simply built into the human design. One of the basic tenets of our immune system is encountering pathogens and establishing a strengthened defense for the future. Studies have …