Interview with Alan Kay | Dr Dobb’s http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/interview-with-alan-kay/240003442?pgno=1
‘User empowerment’ is a useful idea that gets abused to glorify user-hostile design. It’s usually used to refer to situations where the user is empowered to do as we (devs or PMs) tell them, or where the empowerment is too abstract to be proven.
GitHub - nickgravgaard/windowlab: A small and simple window manager of novel design (unmaintained) https://github.com/nickgravgaard/windowlab
Good design for developers & good design for non-developers don’t operate by different rules. Devs aren’t happy needing to memorize manuals, and end users can & will learn things if it makes their lives easier.
What If Bacteria Designed Computers? on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/858385
‘Detective Pikachu’ Reminds Me Of The Disastrous ‘Mario Bros.’ Movie, And That’s Good - Digg http://digg.com/2018/detective-pikachu-super-mario-bros-film-production-design
On Programming Language Design - ielliott.io http://blog.ielliott.io/on-programming-language-design/
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
Tutorials That Don’t Talk Down To You - Context Sensitive Design - Extra Credits - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFdEEzgc7pg
Jeanine Adkisson - Design and Prototype a Language In Clojure - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1KVwoE3n28
On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk
Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/
Folklore.org: Desk Ornaments http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Desk_Ornaments.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (2) - The Finder http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model_The_Finder.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
Folklore.org: The Grand Unified Model (1) - Resources http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=The_Grand_Unified_Model.txt&sortOrder=Sort+by+Date&topic=Software+Design
GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced
Shiba Computer https://shiba.computer/essay/on-weaponised-design/
The Universe of Discourse : Design patterns of 1972 https://blog.plover.com/2006/09/11/
GitHub - schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced: Emulator for the Oberon RISC machine, with enhanced features (not supported by the original design by N. Wirth) https://github.com/schierlm/oberon-risc-emu-enhanced
Hot take: in the absence of full information, provide reasonable defaults that are easily overridden. Making users repeat normally-identical pieces of information several times just because they CAN differ in a corner case is bad design.
A Look at the Design of Lua | November 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/11/232214-a-look-at-the-design-of-lua/fulltext
On Weaponised Design - Radical Networks - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG_z8jyREgk
Theory: no good software was designed after 1989. Thank you, David Hasselhoff (I guess).
Scale Modeling History: After the Postwar Boom in Tiny Designs https://tedium.co/2018/09/27/scale-model-hobby-history/
The design and implementation of modern column-oriented database systems | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/09/26/the-design-and-implementation-of-modern-column-oriented-database-systems/
Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/costanza-chock
Confirming the intelligent designer’s existence, and using its intelligence to solve otherwise intractable problems by making them look like niches for life to settle
Brandon Invergo - Anti-Web-Design Manifesto http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html
That book the protagonist of The Gernsback Continuum was doing apparently came out lol https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/most-beautiful-gas-station-design
Sound Design: How Movie-Makers Create The Sound of Violence https://tedium.co/2018/07/31/indiana-jones-sound-design-history/
Re: https://www.fastcompany.com/90208681/the-myth-of-human-centered-design – good design encourages symbiosis, while bad design encourages parasitism. (Go read your Engelbart & Licklider again.)
Why Google‘s Material Design is a political choice | Imaginary Cloud https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/material-design-is-a-political-choice/
Brutalist Web Design https://brutalist-web.design/
How much bad UI design comes from a focus on making the UI consistent with underlying code that was designed based on ease of implementation in the programmer’s language of choice?
Designing a Programming Language for the Desert | Futhark - A High Performance Functional Array Language https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2018-06-18-designing-a-programming-language-for-the-desert.html
Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the Hyperties Workstation Browser | Don Hopkins http://www.donhopkins.com/drupal/node/102
Going beyond UI and UX with User Design, the hottest new branch of AI-assisted psychology (because, why spend time optimizing the interface when you can just mold the user)
Designing apps for the E Ink Kindle https://kevinlynagh.com/kindle-games/
The cyberpunk aesthetic, moreso than mere future noir, is the future as seen through the eyes of Sir Clive Sinclair: sleek but broken, and dominated by posturing. It’s a beveled black hermetically-sealed shell cracked open to fix manufacturing & design flaws, alligator-clipped wire spilling out, but no fix will prevent it from frying your brain if you look at it funny.
Band name of the day: the nocturnal design
Visual Programming Languages - Snapshots http://blog.interfacevision.com/design/design-visual-progarmming-languages-snapshots/
A really interesting composable UI project designed for generative art: https://lobste.rs/s/9ezxcf/hyperlook_nee_hypernews_nee_goodnews#c_rva21l
The HP-35 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html
Language Design: Unified Condition Syntax https://soc.github.io/languages/unified-condition-syntax
The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-design-history
Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html
Brutalist design is the bad influence we all need https://www.imaginarycloud.com/blog/why-we-need-web-brutalism/
Designing better file organization around tags, not hierarchies https://www.nayuki.io/page/designing-better-file-organization-around-tags-not-hierarchies
VR games specifically designing for sticking your head into the environment: Messages on the insides of banana peels, easter egg worlds hidden in snowglobes, black holes near which you can see what happened five minutes ago, fight games where headbutts are a legit attack
In Defense of Design Thinking, Which Is Terrible + Subtraction.com https://www.subtraction.com/2018/04/02/in-defense-of-design-thinking-which-is-terrible/
A design for a hypothetical undergraduate CS curriculum https://medium.com/@/a-design-for-a-hypothetical-undergraduate-cs-curriculum-1d776cc91b2c
It’s Nice That | A chat with the Orwellian mastermind in charge of the UK town known as Scarfolk https://www.itsnicethat.com/features/scarfolk-graphic-design-210318
Using Ethics In Web Design â Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/
Media Design, Auckland | https://wiki.xxiivv.com/talk
Social engineering is engineering. When you design software used by people, the community is not an externality – it’s shaped by your design, & therefore your responsibility.
Bad idea of the day: A voice assistant specifically designed to answer toddlers when they ask ‘why’.
Decoding the Design of In-Flight Seat Belts - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/why-are-airplane-seatbelts-so-weird
Hostile Architecture: '… https://99percentinvisible.org/article/design-crimes-artist-launches-campaign-highlight-hostile-architecture/
One day we may figure out not just genetics but wholesale biosphere design, and then it won’t be “What does it mean to be human” but “Should there be a place for humans”, “What if we used another type of chemistry”, “Why should it be our native biosphere that survives”
Oh, Apple. Never change. https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/16/17020246/apple-park-headquarters-employees-injury-glass-doors-design
A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html
[Updated] BlueGriffon Tutorial: Design a website using the open source BlueGriffon web editor ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/bluegriffon/bluegriffon-2-tutorial-1.shtml
Cringe and the Design of Sacred Experiences https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/01/11/cringe-and-the-design-of-sacred-experiences/
UI Design Tips for visual novels – Studio Th… http://dev.studiotheophilus.com/index.php/2018/01/14/ui-design-tips-for-visual-novels/
On the design of distributed programming models | th… https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/08/17/on-the-design-of-distributed-programming-models/
we need more books designed to be packaged as decks of playing cards. the family arcana is great but not enough.
Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360 | Random … https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
Ten new principles for good design https://kottke.org/18/01/ten-new-principles-for-good-design
Web application design is like a generation of people looked at that text adventure written in postscript and said LETS WRITE ALL FIRST PERSON SHOOTERS IN POSTSCRIPT EMBEDDED IN SELF-MODIFYING LATEX DOCUMENTS FOREVER
How To Design A Comic Book Page - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dQEfL2BfUM&t=335s
Meet the scientists building a library of designer drugs - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2017/11/8/16619142/designer-drugs-k2-spice-synthetic-weed-ucsf-lab-dea
Web Typography: Designing Tables to be Read, Not Looked At · An A List Apart Article https://alistapart.com/article/web-typography-tables
Muriel Cooper: Designing a Bridge Between the Bauhaus & the Digital Age - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/muriel-cooper-designing-bridge-bauhaus-digital-age/
Uncomfortable by Design: A Series of Deliberately Inconvenient Everyday Objects - 99% Invisible https://99percentinvisible.org/article/uncomfortable-by-design-a-series-of-deliberately-inconvenient-everyday-objects/
In praise of bad game design • Eurogamer.net http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-09-10-in-defence-of-rough-edges
These trippy videos are designed to entice you to purchase eyewear / Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2017/07/16/these-trippy-videos-are-design.html
https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/07/why-is-the-alt-right-so-angry-about-architecture/532470/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/07/why-is-the-alt-right-so-angry-about-architecture/532470/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email
The Dark Architecture of the National Security State - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/design/2017/06/the-dark-architecture-of-national-security/529302/
When you design a biosphere and carefully nerf all the obvious paths to superintelligence, but some social mammals discover it anyway
second-order AIs amuse themselves by designing minds, sleek and efficient ones but also art minds that extract the greatest possible beauty
What the makers get out of it is well-tested and working colony designs and colonist communities that have already been seeded in-game
Are there any design documents i can’t find or do i need to read the java code?
Are there any design documents i can’t find or do i need to read the java code?
Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/expression-web-4-tutorial-1.shtml
Elevator pitch: “We create custom symbionts for any purpose! We disrupt evolution!“↵- Intelligent Design LLC (trademark pending)
Anopticon: Architecture designed to resist surveillance, easily navigable but with as few long lines of sight as possible, sound-damping,
You can explore dreamtime in a bathysphere, dreamproof and designed to withstand great pressure. Or go native, grow gills, breathe ideas.
How to Make a Mobile-Friendly Website: Responsive Design in CSS ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/css/mobile-friendly-responsive-design.shtml
Dream’s temple, by design, is nearly entirely ritual, reflecting dreams’ intangible and ever-changing nature:↵https://twitter.com/allgebrah/status/706999800437334016
He once designed entire cathedrals, but his clients ran out of money. Now he specializes in portable microtemples, no bigger than dice.
It would be nice to have a calculus (to account for translation, friction, perturbation, etc) to explore the design space programmatically.
CSS Frameworks + CSS Reset: Design From Scratch http://tinyurl.com/29n97c