Category: words

  • However, there is an entirely new type of innovation thinking called “constraint-based innovation” – innovation that relies more on ingenuity in product, process and people to solve a customer’s problem by creative improvisation rather than scientific and technological breakthroughs. In India, colloquially, we call this “jugaad” and it’s now got a new name “frugal engineering.”…

  • archiemcphee: Teddy Bear Blood Bag for pediatric infusions by Dunne & Raby [via who killed bambi?] Critical Design and Design Fiction

  • nevver: Ai Wei Watch

  • Teehan+Lax 6px Baseline Grid

    Teehan+Lax 6px Baseline Grid cameronmoll: I have to admit, I’m not much of a baseline grid user myself. But Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain pointed me to this yesterday, I threw it in a PSD I’m working on, and things were fairly close to baseline — font alignment, visual elements, navigation lists, etc. I think that’s due to…

  • adamferriss: R. Buckminster Fuller at Black Mountain College by Nancy Newhall ca. 1948 Color Transparency

  • hydeordie: Christine Wong Yap, Positive Sign #2 (Ten Dimensions of Creative Personalities), 2011

  • Graham McAllister, director of user experience studio Vertical Slice, examines the conundrum of creating a twin stick shooter for the touch-only iOS, breaking down the dos and don’ts, and examining a number of popular games to see what approaches work best. (via Gamasutra – Features – A Guide To iOS Twin Stick Shooter Usability)

  • paperbits: Maria Montessori has a posse, yes she does (by cho girl)

  • ‘I don’t own a computer, have no idea how to work one,’ Woody Allen told an interviewer recently. Most of us have come to find computers indispensable, but he manages to have a productive life without one. Are those of us with computers really better off?… It’s not that the web is making us less…

  • kateoplis: Chinese artist, philosopher, architect, photographer, and one of the Chinese Government’s most prominent internal critics, Ai Weiwei, has been arrested today. The above text is from his Tumblr, where his tweets are translated to English. This is not Ai’s first arrest; he was placed under house arrest in November 2010 to prevent a protest of the demolition of his newly…