I live in a part of Vancouver you’d probably call skidrow. It’s denizens are beggars, junkies, strung out prostitutes, the homeless, and the mentally ill. Most of these folks own nothing and have no income. And most of them depend on the neighbourhood’s various social services for bare survival. Most Vancouverites [...]

I nice intro to Don Norman and his work. Whether you’ve only heard his name or you one many of his book, this is a nice short intro to Norman and his rather common-sensical work. Thanks to Niti for this one.

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To carry the original analogy into music, Frank Sinatra is a stylist, while Tom Waits is a designer.
Sinatra was a marvellous stylist. He was able to take virutally any song and make it sound like his. But he never wrote the lyrics, and he never wrote the music. Creatively Sinatra [...]

Here is another example of the stylists aesthetic of complexity–as opposed to the designer’s philosophy of simplicity (check out Stylists != Designers).

This is a gorgeous diagram, filled with nuanced shadings, a subtle and tasteful color palette (I especially like the orange and green combination), captivating visual patterns, and seductive symetries. Its also an excersize [...]

Niti gave a great speach at the CII last week. Even Bruce Nussbaum noticed — looks like our nascent global initiative is getting noticed.

These ideas are still fresh (which is another way of saying that they are unfinished), so take with a grain of salt.
Apparently there’s gold rush over there in India and China. They want stuff, lots of stuff, and we only just have to sell it to them. Well not so fast there Tex. [...]