How Products Are Designed
Inspired (via core 77)
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for October 31
Flickr Photo Download: Internet Explorer Voodoo Doll
BBC NEWS | UK | Wales | E-mail error ends up on road sign
An automated e-mail response reading in Welsh: “I am not in the office at the moment” is mistakenly put on a road sign.
Wisdom Project
Apple Profile of the Wisdom Project, checkout the overview video.
A still from the behind the scenes video showing one of my favorite artists, Chuck Close.
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for October 27
Let’s talk about text - How Tos - Digital Life - smh.com.au
There are several tricks to making fonts more legible on screen,
writes Dan Kaufman. - Digital Life
writes Dan Kaufman. - Digital Life
Obama Makes the Call
Love the scene of him pacing behind the volunteer on the phone while she’s interviewed.
Here We Go
I hate to be the downer, but with the Yahoo! news last week and things like the Revision3 announcement today, expect twitter to become the ‘good luck, farewell, WTF happened’ hub of the interweb, ala F^%$edCompany in 2000. Get on your moping hats gang this wave is going to be a big one. So long foosball tables.
Impromptu Studio Press
Congratulations to Impromptu Studio on more excellent press coverage. After a week of television coverage they were featured in a nice article in the Business Record. I serve on the advisory board for the space and it’s excellent to see the marketing and outreach plans coming together, and hopefully getting more bodies behind the desks. Also nice to see the DSM Web Geeks get a nod, we’re lucky to have the opportunity to showcase the space and to take advantage of the Shipton’s hospitality every two weeks. Kudos!
Daily Ma.gnolia Links for October 25
Guide to working paperless - Mind Averse
When you draft a proposal or write a report write everything in markdown so you can convert it (PDF, HTML), keep track of revisions (subversion, git), and edit it with any other text editor.
…It’s important to my job and so I’m glad I have reliable e-mail at GMail, cheap calls on Skype, instant messages with Adium (Google Talk, AIM) and a phone on my desk.
…Paperless faxes: Most people have a scanner/printer (it’s hard to find the two separated these days) so they don’t need to fax anything.