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
Why? Because it doesn’t meet your specific and clearly stated requirements? Fine, if you’re paying for it or you’re responsible for it. Because it isn’t… Read More »“This is no good.”
I generally think the design of Android is good. Few things bother me, I can almost always find what I’m looking for, and it all… Read More »Design Matters (2): badly designed Android Bluetooth menu
I know that the higher number usually means colder, but every time I adjust a fridge’s temperature I feel a degree of uncertainty. Do MAX… Read More »Design matters: refrigerator control dial
When you’re making a new system – a workflow, a procedure for quality control or process management, a new tool for others to use –… Read More »The second time through the process
About 50 people pass through DriverlessCrocodile each day (Welcome!). If 2020 taught us anything, it’s that 50 people is plenty for something contagious to spread.… Read More »50 a day (shopfront)
It’s a small thing, but it’s very thoughtful of them. Ikea (they probably got the idea from someone else) added drainage slots to the bases… Read More »Incremental innovation: coffee cups from Ikea
“The hardest thing is, how do [those features] fit into a cohesive vision? … One of the things I’ve always found is that you’ve got… Read More »Steve Jobs on working backwards from customer experience
There’s a reason that most marketers advise us to sell things to people who are already buying: getting something important into the hands of people… Read More »Crossing bridges
A good knot: Solves a problem Is easy to remember Is easy to tie Is easy to check Is strong (causes as little reduction in… Read More »Knotty problems