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January 25, 2012

A project manager, a hardware engineer, and a programmer were in a car. Coming down a hill, a tyre got a puncture, the car went out of control, and a bad crash was only narrowly averted.

  • The project manager wanted everyone to help draw up a plan of how to fix the car and carry on.
  • The hardware engineer wanted to change the tyre and carry on.
  • The programmer wanted to go back to the top of the hill, drive down again, and see if the problem happened again.
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January 21, 2012
“ Apple’s executives had estimated that about 8,700 industrial engineers were needed to oversee and guide the 200,000 assembly-line workers eventually involved in manufacturing iPhones. The company’s analysts had forecast it would take as long as nine months to find that many qualified engineers in the United States. In China, it took 15 days.

Apple, America and a Squeezed Middle Class - NYTimes.com

tbridge: This is a phenomenal article to read the whole way through.

agreed.

(via tbridge)

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January 8, 2012
8bitfuture: The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides. The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa - is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units. The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS, visitors will be able to locate themselves within The Louvre, select themed tours including specialised guides for children, and listen to “hundreds of commentaries in seven languages about the works on display,”  Nintendo has developed the content with guidance from The Louvre’s creators, and is also planning downloadable smartphone and tablet apps to enhance visitors’ experience.

8bitfuture:

The Louvre to hand out 3DS systems as tour guides.

The Louvre museum in Paris - home to the Mona Lisa - is to replace it’s audio tour guides with Nintendo 3DS units.

The current audio guides are used by only 4 per cent of the museum’s 8.5 million annual visitors. With the 3DS, visitors will be able to locate themselves within The Louvre, select themed tours including specialised guides for children, and listen to “hundreds of commentaries in seven languages about the works on display,” 

Nintendo has developed the content with guidance from The Louvre’s creators, and is also planning downloadable smartphone and tablet apps to enhance visitors’ experience.

(Source: gameplanet.co.nz, via emergentfutures)

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January 3, 2012

on talent

“Talent only differentiates us when we’ve already mastered skills and had a breadth of experiences. What separates the great designers from everyone else today isn’t their talent — it’s their skill and experience. Talent is the least important of those three attributes.”

- Jared Spool, How Important is Natural Talent?

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December 19, 2011
“ If you decided to purchase a new car and after you bought it, the dealership told you that it can only be driven on certain roadways, how would you feel?
Yo Amazon: Please don’t hijack the web on Kindle Fire, GigaOM •
December 18, 2011

wanderbymistake:DIY Star Wars Snowflakes (with printable PDF guides).

(via girl-named-bill)

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December 16, 2011

(Source: hlpme, via tbridge)

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November 15, 2011

heyoscarwilde:

Pantone Classic Album Covers

illustrations by David Marsh :: via flickr.com

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November 14, 2011
iheartmyart:Andrey Yazev, Untitled (Scrollbars), 2011

iheartmyart:Andrey Yazev, Untitled (Scrollbars), 2011

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November 13, 2011

thedailywhat: More Time Is More Money of the Day: To prove to their deadline-setting clients that creativity takes time, Hungarian ad agency Café Creative visited some schoolchildren and asked them to perform two tasks: Complete a drawing in ten seconds, and then complete the same drawing in ten minutes.

Long story short, Café Creative landed itself on the 2011 Golden Drum shortlist.

[drawnblog.]

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October 31, 2011
jaymug: The Origin Of Famous Logos

jaymug: The Origin Of Famous Logos

(via myriambalian)

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October 27, 2011
Bold Stroke: New Font Helps Dyslexics Read [Slide Show] HEAVY BASE: Boer increased the boldness of letters at their bases, to make them appear weighted, causing readers’ brains to know not to flip them upside down, as can occur with “p” and “d.” Via phibetakappa:Scientific American.

Bold Stroke: New Font Helps Dyslexics Read [Slide Show] HEAVY BASE: Boer increased the boldness of letters at their bases, to make them appear weighted, causing readers’ brains to know not to flip them upside down, as can occur with “p” and “d.”

Via phibetakappa:Scientific American.

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September 30, 2011
“ You can’t spend all day in an open-sourced, all-sharing, peer-to-peer network and not begin to think that the rest of your world should also operate in the same way.
The Technium (via azspot)

(via azspot)

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September 26, 2011
Hey Michael, I noticed an error on www.WhiteHouse.gov tonight that’s throwing the content one pixel off-center at certain browser widths. Currently, the site’s background image lives in a top-level div called “page,” which is positioned with: background-position: 50% 0;background-origin: initial; The content lives in a div called “page-inner” directly top of the background, positioned with: margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto; The two different methods of centering these divs are thrown out of alignment when the browser has a width of an odd number of pixels (50% values round up; "margin: auto" rounds down) and the content appears one pixel off. The easy fix here is to position the background image using "margin: auto" such that the content and background agree how to behave when the browser is an odd number of pixels wide. The “page” div would have to be nested in an empty parent div with a fixed width so it has something to be centered in the middle of, and both should be set to "overflow: hidden;" to avoid forcing scrollbars. I tested this locally and it fixed the issue. Best wishes, - Max

Hey Michael,

I noticed an error on www.WhiteHouse.gov tonight that’s throwing the content one pixel off-center at certain browser widths.

Currently, the site’s background image lives in a top-level div called “page,” which is positioned with:

background-position: 50% 0;
background-origin: initial;

The content lives in a div called “page-inner” directly top of the background, positioned with:

margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;

The two different methods of centering these divs are thrown out of alignment when the browser has a width of an odd number of pixels (50% values round up; "margin: auto" rounds down) and the content appears one pixel off.

The easy fix here is to position the background image using "margin: auto" such that the content and background agree how to behave when the browser is an odd number of pixels wide. The “page” div would have to be nested in an empty parent div with a fixed width so it has something to be centered in the middle of, and both should be set to "overflow: hidden;" to avoid forcing scrollbars. I tested this locally and it fixed the issue.

Best wishes,

- Max

(Source: maxistentialist)

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predictablyawesome: How sloppy is this? If you’re not signed in to Target.com, the hello text has a space after it (probably because, when you do sign in, your name appears there).

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