Traces
Traces are small and open thoughts, comments or notes.
August trace
The Superstar Effect: being the best, even slightly, triggers huge advantages
The effects of caffeine on your brain
“I excelled at every subject just for the purpose of excelling, not learning”, Erica Goldson
The designer doesn’t have a personal style, Bruno Munari
It isn’t minimalist… or is it?
Solitude and Leadership, by William Deresiewicz
Creativity in a copyright-less world
The Wild Android Store, how to solve it
Enjoyment rises with intensity, peak-end, short duration, breaks & variation.
How to get and keep people’s attention
The big Google background image failure
Sometimes just a sign is enough.
The iPad is an interaction platform, it needs a recursive makers tool
Claimcheck: “Office 2008: we’ve designed our UI for the Mac”
Three days later, WideNoise ranks #1 Lifestyle free app in the Italian App Store and many others throughout the world.
Most of what our mothers told us about our eyes was wrong
It’s your job to figure out how to grow – or shrink – your application properly and responsibly.
Designing and developing to requirements and feature lists leads to unsatisfactory experiences
Keyboard > iPhone > Treo > Pen > Newton > Palm
Break the habit in baby steps, choose a trigger, iterate
Nielsen’s Law of Internet Bandwidth: high-end users +50% per year
Materials are important also for digital designers
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter
Make No Little Plans (Daniel Burnham)
Three degrees of separation: dynamic spread of happiness
Three takes on Apple’s “The Tablet”
Intense Minimalism begins again in 2010, two times a new home
