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Testing design vs. designer’s intuition
Testing design vs. designer’s intuition Many web designers are using testing to ascertain the effectiveness of their designs, but is this hampering innovation?
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fred-wilson: gumroad data on price/conversion nothing new here but it is interesting to see the hard data the difference in conversion between a 1.99 and 2.00 price point is startling.
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personalfactory: Can City: Fabricating Furniture from Melted Aluminum Cans on the Streets of São Paulo ~ solidsmack.com
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There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children’s book. The reason for that is that in adult literary fiction, stories are there on sufferance. Other things are felt to be more important: technique, style, literary knowingness. Adult writers who deal in straightforward…
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personalfactory: Can City – Project by Studio Swine Studio Swine has made a collection of aluminum furniture from street materials of São Paulo. Using a mobile foundry to smelt aluminum cans using waste vegetable oil collected from local cafes as a fuel. Waste collectors known as Catadores mine the streets for materials to produce a…
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madewithpaper: How to Make a Book Earlier this month, we launched Book in collaboration with Moleskine, makers of the legendary notebook. Now you can create custom-printed journals right from Paper. It’s the simplest and most beautiful way to bring your ideas to life and share them with others. (After all, holidays are right around the corner.) Books are…
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The creative personality is always one that looks on the world as fit for change and on himself/herself as an instrument for change. Jacob Bronowski, The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1978. (via amiquote)
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notvanishing: sikssaapo-p: #elsipogtog Women and police face off during anti-fracking protest near #Rexton, New Brunswick this morning. you best believe its the clanmothers on the front lines of indigenous resistance. caretakers of the land. center of the nation.
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If you give a man a fish…
If you give a man a fish… alexainslie: “The classic proverb says: If you give a man a fish, he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will have food for a lifetime. Christopher Blattman’s research suggests that if you just give the man cash, he will buy a fishing…
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