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This might be helpful too, a very good book on the basics: http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Grammar-Design-Briefs-Christian...

I can understand feeling frustrated, but it's a little unfair on yourself. Most designers hone their ability through constant application of their skill, not to mention very often …

> there's an awkward separation between high culture and popular culture, mostly based on how old something is. That's an interesting notion that may prove true in the future, but …

> Flash does absolutely nothing to prevent someone from saving copies of images. This is only true if Flash is loading external jpegs. If they're embedded in a swf, you would have …

I was left wondering why didn't he just export his mailbox. Or add his GMail account to Mail.app and just drag and drop his old inbox into his new Google inbox. There is absolutely…

But I'd wager that most Lion users have a pointing device that enables easy scrolling: a trackpad, magic mouse, magic trackpad, or a mouse with a scroll wheel.

Your wish has been granted. There's a full text transcript here: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-20124391/steve-jobs-re...

Thanks for the thoughtful answer. I now see that there are a number of parallels—but I still think the contrasts are more striking. First of all, Eric Schmidt did an excellent job.…

What are the similarities in position between Jobs/Apple in 1997 and Page/Google now?

While you make a valid point, I also think the parent post might have been also making a different one. It's not so much whether these markets existed prior, but that Google is ent…

Gmail has started suggesting friends to 'consider including' on emails. Personally, this has resulted in both me and my ex getting some very uncomfortable suggestions recently for …

I can't resist plugging audiotool: http://www.audiotool.com/ It's flash, but it's mind blowingly amazing.

From the Lifehacker review: > It's also worth noting that they're looking to crack down on piracy, so depending on how well it works and how much of your music is illegal, that cou…

This and the picture of a laptop in a slide during the Ice Cream announcement made me wonder if this means Android is coming to the laptop form factor, and/or other 'PC' form facto…

Ease of deployment might be why this very blog post is published on Wordpress.

Jason Fried has a great piece on this idea: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/575-but-theres-only-so-many-w...

To me it makes perfect sense. For many people, web browsers have very little to differentiate them. Chrome's single major differentiator is that it's fast. If you asked the average…

While the article raises some valid points, I question the use of compete.com figures to make any claims about foursquare's declining traffic.

This is an older but relevant post from a former Google designer: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/03/20/goodbye-google.html More anecdotally, I find that the best design and ill…

I love the line, 'you can't commoditize good design.' I just want to read it over and over. Design has been so further commoditized in recent years, it's a wonderful reminder that …

I agree that the author's points are purely speculative, but the situation kind of demands speculation, since the official answer was very unsatisfying. The tablet market somehow s…