via Managing Distraction: How and Why to Ignore Your Inbox - Forbes
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German brand combats electric car silence with “e-sound” synthetic noise.Audi is developing a series of synthetic sounds for its upcoming electric models.
The noises, developed by the German brand’s acoustics engineers, have been designed so pedestrians will be able to hear the cars in the urban environment.
so love these rules for typesetting posters from the 1880s. found via Swiss Miss
When I logged into Posterous yesterday I saw something startling.
I've worked with a few CMS but none are really fun. This is the extent of my Posterous fandom:
I just love Posterous. So I trust and hope that it just will never go away. Other fans share my adoration and slight fear. Matt Seidel's comment in response to the news on the official Posterous blog sums it up nicely:
Your FAQ is littered with "We’ll give you ample notice before any changes or disruptions to the service and we’ll provide specific instructions for exporting your content" But you don't provide any clear dialog on the future of the service. Your FAQ makes it sound like you are shutting things down, but very indirectly. Can we get a more clear answer?
A rudimentary categorisation of the comments in response to the acquisition notice tallies users' anxieties.
Acquisitions. We all watch the digital mining boom with keen interest. Passionate makers prospect with code, design and services. Sometimes the gamble and effort doesn't pay off, sometimes little nuggets of gold are conjured, sometimes people hit serious pay dirt. I'm not sure where us users are in this clumsy metaphor of mine. But if we are the mining towns folk, and a village was created for us where none existed before, I hope it doesn’t become a ghost town when the mine closes down.
Cheers to a more stable, integrated and smooth Twitter experience with the talents of the Posterous team now on board. Posterous is dead. Long live Posterous.
A visit to the dairy, to the whaling museum at Eden, feeding birds at Mystery Bay and touring around.
At Narooma:
I like this snippet about one of the 5 secrets of PIXAR's success:
3. LOOK UPSTREAM FOR THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM.
Jacob explained that when someone is confused watching one of your movies, 99.99% of the time it’s not because of what’s happening in the scene. The problem usually lies earlier in the movie. Either the characters weren’t developed well enough or pieces of the story weren’t explained thoroughly. If you simply react and change the scene at the point where someone got confused, you’re chasing a red herring. Instead, it’s important to think about why someone doesn’t get it and focus on fixing that.This principle is applicable to many processes within organizations, particularly to developing new offerings, platforms, and businesses. Before reacting to feedback, ask why someone is seeing things the way they are. You might discover what needs to be changed is back upstream.
It is definitively something I will convey when I next present the harrowing details of a customer or user journey.
User experience architect. Occasional designer and art marker. Coffee addict. Tea connoisseur. News obsessed. Web zealot. Lover of kitsch, and sucker for design objects. Collector of thoughts and things.
