Design
Versus merely trying to stuff a product, burrito-style, with as many different features as possible, they target specific user experiences, and build the product around that accordingly. Mark Sigal explains Apple’s segmentation strategy, and the folly of conventional wisdom (Wayback Machine)
Psychology
Picking out clusters of coincidence is a predictable malfunction of normal human logic. The excellent Psychological weblog “You Are Not So Smart” explains The Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy
Design
Writing interface language is like writing dialog for a play. You want to make it clear who is speaking at all times. Erika Hall explains why not to use My in UI’s, in Super Unsuck It! Bye-Bye, My.
If I’d have asked customers what they wanted, they would have told me, ‘A faster horse!’ Henry Ford, as cited by Steve Jobs, paraphrased in Invincible Apple: 10 Lessons From the Coolest Company Anywhere
Multi-tasking
We are all better off going with the system put in place by the creators of the system chpwn, creator of the popular iPhone tweak ProSwitcher, On Multitasking
Work
Wat ik voor mijn werk nodig heb, is een computer, een verbinding met de wereld en ‘goede zin’. Dat laatste is geen luxe, maar een noodzaak. Harry Starren, Ik ben een kantoor (via tomv) (Wayback Machine)
Work
When you need to have a meeting, have a meeting. When you need to collaborate, collaborate. The rest of the time, do the work, wherever you like. Seth Godin, waving Goodbye to the office
Professional
Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity Colin Powell, from the Quotation Collection, via Tim Ferriss.
Apple
don’t forget how fortunate we are to have such a ruthlessly innovative company at the helm of the ship at this point in time. Either get on it or just pick another boat and draft in its wake. Mike Industries, A good problem to have
Web
Everything about web architecture; HTTP, HTML, CSS, is designed to serve and render content, but most importantly the web is formed where all of that content is linked together. Ben Ward, Understand The Web
it’s why everyone is terrified of Google: The PC revolution is almost coming to an end, and everyone’s trying to work out a strategy for surviving the aftermath. Charlie’s Diary, The real reason why Steve Jobs hates Flash
Open
Like “2.0”, companies are coming to see “open” as just the next checkbox-marketing-trend to hitch their fading brands to. Chris Messina, on “open” and the cigarette industry, in Open-washing and the CamelOpenCircle …Jerk
