AngularJS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.
Worth a look.
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I know only two book from his list, The Innovator’s Dilemma and The Innovator’s Solution and I highly recommend them too, especially the Solution.
Another great epizode of Critical Path where, among others, such topics as Apple, China, industrialization, “Google has no friends” and others are connected by Horace Dediu.
22 guidelines written by Pixar story artist Emma Coats.
#2: You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be v. different.
Nice catch by @rjs and as he said, it applies to product design too. Which is interesting if you think about it. Is product design storytelling in a way? Hmmmm…
Since we launched automated emails in Intercom, one of the most common use cases has been re-engaging customers who have stopped using a product. Let’s look at how to do that effectively. …
… Activity churn is where the rubber hits the road. Typical Churn stats use account cancellations as a measurement but cancellation is only ever a trailing indicator. It’s the last thing that happens.
— Churn, Retention, and Reengaging Customers, The Intercom Blog
Some good tips for email communication included.
If this is for real, someone will quickly buy them.
Via @ondrejvalka
Clever man Horace Dediu and his presentation on Mobilism 2012. You are listening to his podcast Critical Path, aren’t you?
Nice UI for a “volume” dial built on jQuery.
Online compilator of Compass to CSS.
See the video and if you like what you see go to Gridpak web.
gmaps.js allows you to use the potential of Google Maps in a simple way.
No more extensive documentation or large amount of code.
Nice overview of how diverse approaches to design can be in different contexts. My favorite is Dieter Rams’ Ten Principles for good design.
Daring Fireball linked this video accompanying a review of Windows 8 by Michael Mace.
I agree with John and Michael in that the Windows 8 are bigger change than the techies think and therefore it is quite a bet on Microsoft’s part. But as Michael points out:
I think Microsoft feels it must find a way to leverage its waning strength in PCs to make itself relevant in mobile.
This video by Microsoft nicely demonstrates the problem and sets the bar to jump – 1 ms.
Via TechCrunch
Not much organized but just scroll through these nuggets and I bet you will find something interesting.
This piece of work by Zurb may come in handy.
They haven’t released the whole interview yet but there are more short videos on D10 page. Once they put out the whole interview I will replace this highlights one with it. Meanwhile, you may be interested in the transcription of the whole thing.
Good templates for wireframing in Keynote for iPad, iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Facebook, general web app, Windows 7, Windows 7 Mobile and OS X.
Via @BerkaUX
I believe that many Apple observers have been too invested in picking off the low hanging fruit of obviously out-of-touch commentators, columnists, and analysts. Apple is winning. It’s fun to pick on the idiots, and we do tune in for the affirmation that engenders, but that’s not insight. It’s a tag team wedgie patrol. It takes a clever intellect to dismantle bullshit but, ultimately, it often just ends up with pantsing the dumb guy. Rather than doing that let’s aim to pants the A-grade quarterback.Here are the top three problems I believe Apple faces in the near term.
To his list I would add the problem of filtering signal from noise in all the Stores – App, iBooks and iTunes. For starters, Apple must get better with suggesting new stuff based on past purchases.
Via Daring Fireball
Thought provoking 15 minutes speech by Joe Kraus (you may find transcription of the speech there).
I agree that we have to fight back distractions. It was Einstein who famously said:
It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.
I strongly believe that focusing on a given problem for a long time is the only way to great solution.
Via @jakubnesetril