Stay Classy, Mumbai
Tomorrow, we shall shrug and get back on our feet.
Tomorrow, we shall dream better.
Tomorrow, our heartbeats will get back to normal.
Tomorrow, we shall tell happy stories.
Tomorrow, we shall continue to hope.
Tomorrow, we shall count our blessings.
Tomorrow, we shall grieve for heroes dead or alive.
Tomorrow, we shall look for answers.
Tomorrow, we shall move on.
Labels: design, t-shirt
What is design?
Clay Shirky has written an elegant article
on design, drawing upon the struggle between users who want more control and designers who often want to dictate how things should work.
Clay includes the often discussed examples of Myspace (ugly but usable), iPod (elegance, which I think is marred by Apple’s insistence of fusing the battery)
Is Design Arrogance? “I know what you want better than you. Here it is.”
Is Design Humility?Or, Is Design Problem Solving? (e.g. Google)
Apple might be making the shiniest thingy but its designers have a two decade track record of thrusting their own whims down customers’ throats. The recent brouhaha over the iPhone and locking issues is a good case in point.
Labels: apple, design, google
Del.icio.us is gone (soon)
What is with our .com fixation? Coming in wake of Topix.net which spent spent millions on changing to Topix.com, pioneering social networking site Del.icio.us has gone in for some
remodeling and will change its address to delicious.com instead of the idiosyncratic nomenclature aped by many.
However, Scachter says he will be some
‘redirection magic’ so that users are not disappointed.
For a site that has 1 million users and 100 millin unique URLS bookmarked, Delicious.com is ‘so’ normal, something that jars our image of a minimal and useful service.
What’s next? Craigslist.com?
Labels: del.icio.us, design, enterprise web 2.0, social bookmarking
