Eff your infographic!!
Danger of Fracking explained
Great storytelling through an informative design that helps explain the environmental costs of fracking for natural gas
Fresh Impressions on Brandmarks, by a 5-year-old (via AdamLaddVideos)
Pretty astute and adorable observations. If you have to overthink a logo, you’re usually doing it wrong.
CNNMoney Tech Tumblr: Enough with the giant phones!
The iPhone takes a lot of flack from tech blogs for maintaining their smaller screen size, but I like the ability to use my phone using only one hand and being able to reach over 90% of the screen using only my thumb. I think the UI designers at Apple already know these advantages though…
All these huge new phones are giving me a bad case of “smartphone thumb.”
The screen on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a stunning 4.65 inches across the diagonal, compared to 3.5 inches for the iPhone (see above). Though more is often better, there has got to be a limit, right? My thumb could…
How Sony lost their lead in consumer electronics…
There’s more to Sony’s problems than acts of God and currency traders. The maker of the Walkman and the Trinitron hasn’t driven pop culture for years. Sony thrived in an era of stand-alone electronics. When the Internet arose and digital began to mean connected, iPods became the center of people’s entertainment lives, then smartphones and tablets—which Sony was late to produce. Even the quintessential Sony product—the TV set—has become a millstone. Sony has lost nearly $8.5 billion on TVs over eight years and expects to keep losing at least into 2013. Samsung, Vizio, and other upstarts have driven prices so low that one Sony executive says the company charges less for some TVs than it cost to ship them a few years ago.
“What Is Sony Now?” — Bryan Gruley and Cliff Edwards, Bloomberg Businessweek
I want a design that will appeal both to the ‘ironic-mustache’ crowd, and the ‘thug-life tattoo gangster’ crowd. Got that?
It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them
What does Apple have that Google doesn’t? An Auteur of design, name Steve Jobs. Do you think design decisions are best reached by a unfied personality or through consensus emerging through a committee?
