27.07.2007
design philosophy
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Last weekend I shook off my Berkeley inertia and took a trip in to the city to attend WordCamp.
I particularly enjoyed a talk by Rashmi Sinha about social networks and popularity. There are some problems inherent in basing a site’s navigation on popularity. A lot of sites like Flickr, Digg, etc. emphasize browsing based on [...]
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05.07.2007
design philosophy
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Every now and then you come across a piece of writing that really makes you stop and think. Magic Ink: Information Software and the Graphical Interface is just such a paper.
Bret Victor makes some salient points in this piece — in essence, rather than desiging good interactive experiences, we should present information in such as [...]
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