Flashes of inspiration are a critical ingredient for great design. However, they really are brief moments in the life of a project. The real work of making something great is time consuming. It is iterating and polishing and re-ordering and re-conceptualizing and backtracking and focusing relentlessly for long periods of time. Design is a marathon,…
Last week a 20-year old took hundreds of rounds of ammunition in high density clips and a semi-automatic machine gun into an elementary school in Connecticut. He shot 26 people, mostly 6 year old kids. It’s senseless. It’s insane. It’s an act of mental illness, evil or both. The thing that really drives me nuts is…
Verizon just upgraded my phone to Android Jelly Bean 4.1.1. It has some minor improvements, but generally speaking it isn’t much of a change. The icons look different and the email clients look newer. There is more color in the built-in apps like Calendar and Email. They have a new widget I am using for…
Making a decision in a bad headspace is a bad idea. Frustrated Anxious Guilty Sad Angry Frantic / Hurried Fearful Distracted Passionate Hungry Ecstatic These emotions make your brain run hot. They take away valuable CPU power in decision-making. You want to be calm and collected when you make decisions. Cool heads make good decisions.…
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/biweekly Happening every two weeks. Happening twice a week; semiweekly. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/biweekly occurring twice a week occurring every two weeks fortnightly http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/biweekly Occurring once every two weeks. Occurring twice a week Here is the bottom line: The prefix bi- applies to the week rather than to the events that occur, therefore giving the sense of “every two…
I am a pretty avid reader. I used to read on the train when I used public transportation every day. These days, I drive 10 minutes to work, so my reading has been fewer minutes per day. For this reason, it REALLY sucks when a book is bad. Specifically, I only read non-fiction, either design/psychology…