If you’re a designer interviewing an engineering candidate, I think what you want to know is basically “will I be able to work with this person?” I’ve found that the easiest place to start is to inquire about the candidate’s past experiences working with other designers. What was the arrangement like? Who did what? What bumps in the road did they hit? What were the easiest and hardest things about working with those designers? What did they learn about how design intersects with their job?
It’s always a sign of trouble when you’ve built something you don’t want to use yourself. Why does everyone I know who works at Apple carry an iPhone? Every single one? Not because they have to. It’s because they want to.
Amid all the controversy over genetically-modified (GM) crops and their pesticides and herbicides decimating bee populations all around the world, biotechnology behemoth Monsanto has decided to buy out one of the major international firms devoted to studying and protecting bees. According to a company announcement, Beeologics handed over the reins to Monsanto back on September 28, 2011, which means the gene-manipulating giant will now be able to control the flow of information and products coming from Beeologics for colony collapse disorder (CCD).
Reblogged from slantback.
It’s not as if any of us wants to live like this, any more than any one person wants to be part of a traffic jam or stadium trampling or the hierarchy of cruelty in high school — it’s something we collectively force one another to do.
On trying to catch the final round of the Masters in years past: “Well, I got kicked out of the one game by (the refs). I think it was in record time, it was in the first quarter. I wasn’t trying in that one. But in the other game I told you about — I can’t remember the ref, I want to say it was Steve Javie — I was trying to get thrown out because Danny Ainge was telling me at halftime, ‘Hey, Tiger’s making a run. Get thrown out of the game.’ And I tried, and Javie said, ‘I’m sorry, I’m a big golfer, too. You’re not going anywhere.’
The trouble with quick and dirty is that dirty remains long after quick has been forgotten.
Reblogged from slantback.
Palestinian children are growing up in a world that is not fair, not just and not right, Obama said after visiting the West Bank. “Put yourself in their shoes,” he said.
This is my favorite website. I visit it almost every day. It’s not responsive. It’s not optimized for iPhone. It looks blurry on a Retina display. It doesn’t use the latest HTML5/CSS3 framework. It doesn’t have a thoughtful vertical rhythm. The fonts are nothing special. It is neither skeumorphic nor flat. It doesn’t have its own favicon. It doesn’t have a native app or Twitter or Instagram. It doesn’t use AJAX or SCRUM or node.js or Sinatra. It doesn’t have an API or an RSS feed or VC funding. It hasn’t been featured on a prominent tech blog or won an award.
It tells me the soups of the day.
Freely distributed information that’s relevant to the person reading it. That’s web design.
