“There’s nothing wrong with non-designers talking of “design” in terms only of likability and aesthetics. Indeed, it would be so much easier for everybody if good designs always looked nice and bad designs looked bad! Yet there are many ugly designs that work well. Look at Google, Reddit, Craigslist, or even iOS with a free aesthetic eye and you won’t find much that is formally sublime. But these interfaces work, so they are well designed.”
Playing around with a print layout given a large subset of fake health data.
“You can put a cat in an oven, but that don’t make it a biscuit.”
github advanced search is brilliant
instantly populate input with search variables (teaches you the syntax as you fill out the form). Input suggestions are nice touch as well
Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future—if you don’t take charge of your life—there is the sense that no one else will.So go find a frontier and go for it. Choose to do something important and different. Don’t be deterred by notions of luck, impossibility, or futility. Use your power to shape your own life and go and do new things.
via instapaper.com
