A brief history on writing: A forgotten technology
How the challenges we face in today’s digital age can be traced back to one of the most significant yet underrated innovations of all time—writing.Ernest Hemingway writing. Image: WortmanWhen you think “technology”, writing seldom comes to mind. Yet, the creation of writing remains one of the single..
10 publications that contextualize design in South Africa
There are so few independent publications currently being produced in South Africa, and even fewer with a coherent design sensibility. All the more reason to know about those publications that have made a historic impression, and support those that are currently trying to create history. It should b..
UX lessons from car gear stick designs
Habits and their role in design.In the world of new technologies and the user experience designed around them, we are often stuck within the thought of “newer is always better!” We soon find that this isn’t always the case, complaining that it’s hard to use, or not as good as we thought. But why so?..
Design is everything but everything isn’t design
Why brands put aesthetics ahead of everything else but need everything else for design to truly succeedAesthetics are an expression of purpose. What we believe, the choices we make, and the products and services we choose to use are bound up in our individual worldview and belief system. Our choices..
The most important soft skill for designers: Communication
Why strong communication skills are so significant to a designer’s success.
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In search of the perfect search for Wikipedia
The Android app team improved one of their core features- searching for articles on Wikipedia. While we were making discovery more intelligent, personalized and efficient, we experienced a surprise.Original image by Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsBy Robin Schoenbaechler
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Where there is beauty
How People Are Neurologically Attracted To Certain Things, and Why We Should Seek To Make Places as Instagrammable as Possible
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My love letter to Adobe Flash
How Flash changed my life and what it has taught me about the future.https://medium.com/media/c961471ebb81d1ab3d20c4460e9f2b48/hrefFor those of us who came of age in the Dot Com Boom of the late ’90s and early 2000s, Flash was one of the most creatively liberating web technologies to ever come along..
In defense of design challenges
With specific conditions, of course.
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From the astrolabe to software: The history of technical writing and its impact on...
Image by @israelandrxdeTechnical writing’s history had its start hundreds of years ago and can be traced back to A Treatise on the Astrolabe, a medieval instructions manual on the astrolabe and its use, written by Geoffrey Chauce in 1391. Another example of early technical writing work were English ..
