Steve Blank: The Secret History of Silicon Valley
Recommended – accompanied by slides and just-as-interesting information about Steve Blank’s involvement at his website here.
design
Sturgeon’s law(s)
1) “90% of everything is crud.”* 2) “Nothing is absolutely so.” Theodore Sturgeon Law number one is most useful for rebutting (or ignoring) attacks on… Read More »Sturgeon’s law(s)
McKinley Valentine on the user experience of the whodunnit (and neural networks)
The Whippet #126 is great. The Whippet is reliably good, and you should subscribe because (as this edition makes clear), it will be a while… Read More »McKinley Valentine on the user experience of the whodunnit (and neural networks)
Jamey Stegmaier (Stonemaier Games): Your Idea is Brilliant; Your Idea is Worthless
I just came across this 2016 blog post from Stonemaier Games – the people behind the beautiful Wingspan, among others. Recommended. Here’s a snippet: Your… Read More »Jamey Stegmaier (Stonemaier Games): Your Idea is Brilliant; Your Idea is Worthless
Resource: SVG images with Inkscape in 6 minutes
SVG images (SVG = Scaleable Vector Graphics) are more or less what they sound like – images that can be scaled up or down without… Read More »Resource: SVG images with Inkscape in 6 minutes
Design matters (6): Bosch hand-blender attachment
These two things: 1) The two holes in the base of the attachment to allow water to drain.2) The rubber skirt around the edge to… Read More »Design matters (6): Bosch hand-blender attachment
Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser
Here are three water dispensers: … may not be a thing of beauty but it’s clean and relatively well designed in terms of the aesthetics… Read More »Design Matters (5): the information architecture of a water dispenser
Quiet, low cost, low noise, no-solder DIY air filter that keeps PM2.5s below 10 in a medium-sized bedroom
I’m in the process of building a manually controllable air filter using an Arduino and an SDS-11 particulate sensor. I wasn’t sure whether to be… Read More »Quiet, low cost, low noise, no-solder DIY air filter that keeps PM2.5s below 10 in a medium-sized bedroom
Design Matters (4): a recipe for trouble
How you prefer recipes to be organised is probably a matter of taste, but there seem to be a lot of badly designed ones out… Read More »Design Matters (4): a recipe for trouble
Design Matters (3): Ingenious board game tile holder and embodied memory
Ingenious is the name of the game – it’s good. The design feature shown here is such a simple thing: you are allowed 6 tiles… Read More »Design Matters (3): Ingenious board game tile holder and embodied memory