A wonderful shot of Frank Lloyd Wright. It looks like a still from a movie. Hat tip: 37 Signals.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to see Edward Tufte speak in the gorgeous surroundings of the Royal Geographic Society in London. The talk was based around his most recent work Beautiful Evidence and his theories around information presentation, including of course an examination of Charles Joseph Minard’s famous flow map of Napoleon’s Russian campaign (of which […]
One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. ‘Ninety knots,’ ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. ‘One-twenty on the ground,’ was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came […]
No design survives contact with the user. Just like most people change the house they live in, most people change design artifacts to suit their needs and taste. The Experience belongs to the User, from 52 Weeks of UX.