Mike Venerable had a post today on simple UI design that stirred up some thoughts. When designing anything, a device, web site, business card, anything, there are two related principles to consider; simple is best, and worse is better. Once upon a time design was about changing the world, lately what we call design tends to be more… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: October 2009
Xerox PARC, Apple, and Dead Newspapers
Many of the cool ideas that have been brought everyday use by the computer industry over the last several decades were first contemplated at Xerox Parc. In particular many of the ideas that led directly to the Mac. One of the visions at Parc involved computing devices existing in three formats; tabs, pads and boards.… PARC, Apple, and Dead Newspapers">Read more »
Mint’s Patzer on Startup Financing
Aaron Patzer was in Cincinnati to speak to the GCVA earlier this year, and since then he sold his startup Mint for $170m. I thought his presentation to GCVA was excellent and he gives a nice outline of his real life experiences with costs at various stages here: Juice Pitcher Aaron Patzer
Apple enters its ‘evil empire’ phase
Everyone seems to have noticed over the past few months just how twisted some of the decisions Apple is making are. They chose a faulty carrier for the US market so they could line their pockets with kickbacks on the monthly fees, they rejected the Google Voice app, the Apple legal team seems to want to… Read more »