“Danish architect Bjarke Ingels rockets through photo/video-mingled stories of his eco-flashy designs. His buildings not only look like nature — they act like nature: blocking the wind, collecting solar energy — and creating stunning views.”
“You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of hyperintelligent but hopelessly socially naive people, and you would not be wrong. Asking computer nerds to design social software is a little bit like hiring a Mormon bartender.”
“That is, I believe in the potential of natural user interfaces (NUIs) to push us toward a new era of computing. NUI principles—such as make content the user interface; enable direct interactions with content not chrome; and reduce visuals that are not content—drive us toward a more direct way of interacting with digital information and media.”
— Highlighted by Alexis Fellenius in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
“A simple anchor link in the site’s header jumps people to navigation options at the bottom of the page.”
— Highlighted by Alexis Fellenius in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
“I sell an app for money, then I spend less than I make.”
— Love this answer by Marco Arment on the question: What is the Readability & Instapaper business model? Is it same for both? - Quora
“Hear from sound experts and friends of SoundCloud why sound is so important to the way we connect with the world.”
“So there have been one million pre-orders for Windows Phone 7 devices running Mango?”
— Grubers comment on an interview with Windows Phone chief on what the 4s got “wrong”. Lovely.
“Animals, for example, range in size over ten orders of magnitude from a shrew to a blue whale. If you plot their metabolic rate against their mass on a log-log graph, you get an absolutely straight line. From mouse to human to elephant, each increase in size requires a proportional increase in energy to maintain it.”
— “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster”
“[The zone] is that magical place where you’ve managed to fit the entire context of your current project in your head. With all this content in there, you can perform superhuman acts of productivity and creativity because you have the complete problem space at your mental disposal.”
— Rands
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