Will probably get fired for this
April 22, 2005 | Products & Opportunites
An Apple employee will probably get fired for this series of Slashdot posts on future Apple technology. But thanks - it all sounds very amazing! First post, Second post, Third post. Follow future posts at this link.
Scalable Inman Flash Replacement
April 3, 2005 | Science
Wow. A method to substitute high-quality text (via Flash, when present) instead of boring HTML text. Here's the current release. Here's the Wiki.
“[Find] the exact space the headline fills up if rendered as browser text. [Now] let’s draw a Flash movie that exact size and lay the type out as snugly as possible within it.”
You can see it in action on SixApart.com.
The tough sell of honesty
April 3, 2005 | Business & Commerce | Products & Opportunites
Good post from Jeffrey Veen on his design process.
Rather than figure out how to design for your audience, design for yourself after becoming like your audience. At that point, I find, snap decisions become good decisions.
The problem, of course, is doing this commercially - doing it on cue. How do you write a proposal that suggests that I'm going to "do a tremendous amount of homework, then just wait for the answer. Oh, and it's going to be really, really painful as we wait. Really painful. Sorry."
I know exactly what he means.
