Design
If you can’t find the button
if you can’t find the button to use the camera on the phone, it doesn’t matter how many megapixels it is Adam Greenfield, a former head of design direction at Nokia, Interviewed by NYTimes.com
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Social Media
Temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party
social media is itself as temporary as any social gathering, nightclub or party. It’s the people that matter, not the venue Douglas Rushkoff, on why the Facebook hype will fade (Wayback Machine)
Psychology
Our rational brain
our rational brain is [...] a computer operating system that was rushed to market Jonah Lehrer, Neuroscientist and author, as cited in Myth #29: People are rational on UX Myths
Internet
Run someone off the internet
If it’s OK for a democracy to just decide to run someone off the internet for doing something they wouldn’t prosecute a newspaper for doing, the idea of an internet that further democratizes the public sphere will have taken a mortal blow. Wikileaks and the Long Haul « Clay
Net Neutrality
Telecommunications carriers
every time and in every way that the telecommunications carriers have had power or control, we the people wind up getting screwed Apple Co-founder Steve Wozniak on net neutrality, in his open letter to the FCC: Keep the Internet Free
Music
A window in the 120 years of the record business
There was a window in the 120 years of the record business where performers made loads and loads of money out of records. But it was a very small window — say, 15 years between 1975 and 1990. Mick Jagger, on the rise of illegal file sharing, in an interview with
Twitter actually feels like the street
Facebook or MySpace [...] feel like malls to me. But Twitter actually feels like the street. You can bump into anybody on Twitter. Sci-Fi Author William Gibson on on Why He Loves Twitter, and more
Design
You train them not to pay attention
Once you overload the user, you train them not to pay attention. More clutter isn’t free. In fact, more clutter is a permanent shift, a desensitization to all the information, not just the last bit. Seth Godin, in a instantly popular post The inevitable decline due to clutter
Mobile
Downloading an app
As more and more business mobile optimize their websites, downloading an app in order access businesses is going to seem archaic VentureBeat, in favor of web apps and why The iPhone app is the Flash homepage of 2010
They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern
They’re bloated, user-unfriendly and map to a tired pattern of mass media brands trying vainly to establish beachheads on new platforms without really understanding the platforms at all. Khoi Vinh, on iPad Magazine Apps
Clutter and confusion are not attributes of information
Clutter and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design. Edward Tufte, on Windows Phone 7 Series (WP7S)
Innovation
Masturbatory novelty is not a business strategy
Masturbatory novelty is not a business strategy. Jeffrey Zeldman argues why publishers are doing the wrong thing, and use iPad as the new Flash