Words of the World: The Secret Stories of Words
by Maria Popova, brainpickings.orgWhat liberals and Nazis have in common, or how we define our time.
We love words. So we’re all over Words of the World — a fantastic collection of short videos about words, presented by experts from the University of…
Urville: An Autistic Savant’s Remarkable Imaginary City, 20 Years in the Making
Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. It comes out on Sundays and offers the week’s best articles. Here’s what to expect. Like? Sign up., brainpickings.orgA rare glimpse of the extreme frontiers of human ability and imagination.
With its population of 12 million, its formidable architecture, and its extensive infrastructure, Urville, the capital of a large island provinc…
Faces by Ashkan Honarvar
triangulationblog.comFaces is a collages series made by Ashkan Honarvar in 2009, during this year Honarvar’s work was focused just on the manipulation and distortion of human faces through cut-outs, drawing and photography. This was the first one, see the…
Faces
“When holding a touch phone screen with only your right hand, it’s easy to hit the dark green area and a stretch to tap the yellow area with your thumb.”
@Lukew in Mobile First via uxrave
Donald Norman tells a great story about salt and pepper shakers.
Interaction Design
by Bill Verplank
from Designing Interactions
http://www.designinginteractions.com/interviews/BillVerplank
Fabian Hemmer: The shape-shifting future of the mobile phone
At Ease was an alternative to the Macintosh desktop developed by Apple Computer in the early 1990s. It provided a simple environment for new Macintosh users to help them to work without supervision. At Ease sits on top of the Finder desktop, providing a simple tab panel oriented graphical user interface in whichapplications and documents are represented by icons on large buttons. Aside from its security features, its interface and basic functionality is very similar to the Packard Bell Navigator.
