The enabling features aren’t obvious and evident, because the key was getting rid of stuff.
– Jonathan Ive, on designing the iPod [Wired]
Getting Rid of Stuff
Aug 12 2010
API as User Interface
Moreover, an API is not about programming, data structures, or algorithms—an API is a user interface, just as much as a GUI. The user at the using end of the API is a programmer—that is, a human being.
– Michi Henning, API Design Matters
[via Jwatt]
Dec 23 2009
On Rounded Edges
A rectangle with sharp edges takes indeed a little bit more cognitive visible effort than for example an ellipse of the same size. Our “fovea-eye” is even faster in recording a circle. Edges involve additional neuronal image tools. The process is therefore slowed down.
Aug 3 2009
Reid Hoffman on Launching
If you’re not embarrassed – in the consumer internet – by the first version of the product you launched, you’ve launched too late.
Jun 11 2009
Java Applets 2.0
AIR apps are like modern day Java applets… sure, they run on every platform. But they also suck on every platform
[via Marco]
Apr 24 2009