February 9th, 2012
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doctor who
season six
February 7th, 2012
Many people who think of themselves as working on the design of software simply lack the technical grounding to be an effective participant in the overall process. Naturally, programmers quickly lose respect for people who fail to understand fundamental technical issues. The answer to this is not to exclude designers from the process, but to make sure that they have a sound mastery of technical fundamentals, so that genuine communication with programmers is possible.
Bringing Design to Software - Ch. 1 Kapor
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software design
web design
hig
ui
ux
Technology courses for the student designer should deal with the principles and methods of computer program construction. Topics would include computer systems architecture, microprocessor architectures, operating systems, network communications, data structures and algorithms, databases, distributed computing, programming environments, and object-oriented development methodologies.
Designers must have a solid working knowledge of at least one modern programming language (C or Pascal) in addition to exposure to a wide variety of languages and tools, including Forth and Lisp.
Bringing Design to Software - Ch. 1 Kapor
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software design
old-school
ui design
web design
Make jokes even when it’s inappropriate. People get really emotional, myself included, when they’re working in web stuff. And it’s entirely understandable: often what we’re messing with are things that are mixed up in people’s jobs. Imagine if someone told you that what you do every day should be called something different because some guy called “the user” doesn’t know what it means. That’s emotional territory. Making jokes always works. Even if they’re bad ones. It puts people at ease and everyone can make rational decisions instead of emotional ones.
Our First Principles | Contents Magazine
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our first principles
web design
careers
advice
The United States Constitution is terse and old, and it guarantees relatively few rights. The commitment of some members of the Supreme Court to interpreting the Constitution according to its original meaning in the 18th century may send the signal that it is of little current use to, say, a new African nation.
…The rights guaranteed by the American Constitution are parsimonious by international standards, and they are frozen in amber. As Sanford Levinson wrote in 2006 in “Our Undemocratic Constitution,” “the U.S. Constitution is the most difficult to amend of any constitution currently existing in the world today.” (Yugoslavia used to hold that title, but Yugoslavia did not work out.)
‘We the People’ Loses Appeal With People Around the World - NYTimes.com
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legislation
constitutions
democracy
February 1st, 2012
It is a little disconcerting that negotiation skills are worth thousands of dollars per year for your entire career but engineers think that directed effort to study them is crazy when that could be applied to trivialities about a technology that briefly caught their fancy.
Don’t Call Yourself A Programmer, And Other Career Advice | Kalzumeus Software
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professional advice
careers
advice
salary
salaries
When presented with any problem, take the time to think about your own thinking. Examine your initial thoughts, explore the hows and why’s of your own thought process. Do this often
Thinking About Thinking — D. Keith Robinson
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design philosophy
thought processes
life improvement
thinking
So the next time you optimize your web site based on Fitts’s Law, remember that if your link is already huge, making it “huger” will not significantly increase the speed at which one can access it. However, making tiny links a little bigger does make a difference.
Particletree » Visualizing Fitts’s Law
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fitt's law
ux
user experience design
links
ui design
January 26th, 2012
The fact of the matter is I want everything we do–that I do personally, that our office does–to be beautiful. I don’t give a damn whether the client understands that that’s worth anything, or whether the client thinks it’s worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It’s worth it to me. It’s the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.
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saul bass
eyes on the prize
January 2nd, 2012
phreckles
(via fuckyeahdoctorwho)
December 25th, 2011
My amazing boyfriend, Rob Villaneuva, got me a giant Wookie for Christmas. But first, he took it on adventures around San Francisco.
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star wars
robvsf
wookie
bikes
cycles
December 22nd, 2011
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major league
charlie sheen
December 17th, 2011
Friendsgiving 2011 (by RobVSF)
December 7th, 2011
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tintype
photoboothsf
henry lyne
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