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- 17 Jan 2011 » Apple's Design Process #
Every week, the teams have two meetings. One in which to brainstorm, to forget about constraints and think freely. As Lopp put it: to “go crazy”. Then they also hold a production meeting, an entirely separate but equally regular meeting which is the other’s antithesis. Here, the designers and engineers are required to nail everything down, to work out how this crazy idea might actually work.
Given the quality of output from Apple, notes about their process are a potential source of best practice in product design and iteration.
- 28 Oct 2010 » We Showed 'Troll Physics' Comics to a Physics Professor. Here's His Reaction. #
… To give a sense of how hard of a push that is, let’s assume that the stupid troll thing in the wagon weighs 50 kg.
This is the tone throughout, brilliant.
- 20 Oct 2010 » Call of Duty: Gaming and Reality in Modern Warfare #
All that realism crowding out reality. You were there… what was it like? they’d ask.
“The next time you get killed playing Call of Duty,” I tell one of them, “take the game out back, back behind your dorm. And bury it. Along with a picture of your best friend. That’d be a good start.”
“Why a picture of someone else? I thought you said the next time I get killed.”
“Your own death is too abstract.”
Amazing piece on the modern war-game/FPS and its relationship with real combat. The S.L.A. Marshall statistic that 75% of WWII soldiers never fired on the enemy - even under direct threat - and the solution in modern training is thought provoking.
- 19 Oct 2010 » Not Your Average iPhone Screencast #
You could make a screencast by clicking around in the iPhone Simulator, but that has a tendency to look like you just clicked around in the iPhone Simulator.
Tips and tricks for making a screen-recorded iPhone app video look and feel ‘right’ from Loren Brichter (of Tweetie, now Twitter fame). A realistic set of apps and carrier name go along way to blurring the boundary - a lot of app demo videos don’t follow these points and it’s slightly jarring.
- 19 Oct 2010 » Under the covers of the App Engine Datastore #
Really nice illustration of keyed, sharded datastores and how SQL queries map onto the bigtable/key-value store approach in this presentation by Ryan Barrett of Google.
- 04 Oct 2010 » The Geometry of Pasta #
Pictorial, complete with dimensions and recipes.
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