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By request, I drew a flowchart for Rye, Bourbon, and Scotch Whisky (for simplicity, I left Scotch grain whiskys out): http://t.co/h1kIbs4P
Dear OSX app devs: Nobody knows what ⌘, ⌥, ⌃, or ⇧ means. Use the actual words on the keys: "command", "option", "control", & "shift"!
So this guy, he takes a pic of his family, puts it in a plastic bag, goes to the moon, drops it, and takes a pic of it: http://slavin.tumblr.com/post/40906492145/chriswoebken-charles-duke-this-was-the …
For the record, "inadvisable" is a fantastic replacement for the word "insane" in an email to a client.
I'd rather see ads for *Viagra* in the Twitter #dickbar rather than this parade of idiocracy, the godawful dreck known as "Trending Topics".
Usually the world gets suckered by crappy dataviz. Not this time: @wired's visually-illiterate "web is dead" infographic: http://is.gd/emtHf
If you're not somewhere awesome, and you can't say anything more interesting than "I'm at" in your Foursquare tweet, shut up.
I sketched out a simple flow chart to explain the difference between Wine, Brandy, Champagne, Sherry, and Port: http://t.co/K6M37CyM
@mike_ftw The judge he killed had struck down a law requiring background checks for buying a gun in AZ.
My "Human Interface" presentation is up on Slideshare, refreshed and up-to-date: http://bit.ly/8lHk10 #ixd10 #human
Wanna embrace skeuomorphia and make your UI even more real? Respond in real time to the real world: cc @benjaminjackson http://t.co/qVgIaLCp
Usability testing's most powerful benefit, by far, is its ability to *instantaneously* inspire attentive designers to improve their work.
I've never scanned a QR code in my life. It feels completely dehumanizing, like being a marketing victim and a robot slave at the same time.
Ian McKellan's awesome T-shirt at a protest-the-Pope march: "I'm Gandalf and Magneto Get over it." http://twitpic.com/2pq44x (via @virginia)
Based on the ads, it looks like iPhone is for your real life, and Droid is for your sci-fi techno-dystopian alternate-reality fantasy life.
I've always loved the definition of "user" in the movie Tron:
user • a person who is not a computer program
Dear crass, meet class: RT @khoi: New blog post: My reaction to a recent unsolicited redesign. http://t.co/x5Low4y
iOS observation: Your touchpoint is 'cheated' upwards 10-20 pixels. Proof: when you use an iOS app upside-down, you tend to overshoot a lot.
We can only type company names in Helvetica so many times before we really have to stop calling the results "logos".
Companies who need to choose between HTML5 and Flash for their next rich web UI should brush up on the sunk cost fallacy: http://is.gd/cVCD8
Interaction designer, writer, teacher, captain of industry living in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
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