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Designer Tyler N. Thompson conducted an experiment to redesign airline boarding passes for finding information quickly in the crowded, hectic airport environment. Here’s his original boarding pass, and one of the reader-submitted redesigns: Figure 1. Current Boarding Pass Figure 2. Redesign by David Yoon (Via Graphicology and Timoni Grone)
Kevin Maney points out that, unlike books with their varied and descriptive covers, e-Reader devices conceal the identity of what you’re reading: …the Kindle lets readers down with respect to one subtle but powerful element of the traditional book’s appeal: its role as an identity marker. Pulling out a particular book on an airline flight [...]
Patrick Wintour, describing new British PM David Cameron in The Guardian: Cameron feels at least iPod, if not iPad generation: relaxed appearances on the networks, dinner with Washington Post columnists, and meetings with all the key congressional leaders…
Whitney Hess: Inspiration is necessary in order for aspiration to grow. But only until we’re filled with aspiration, self-initiated and self-defined, do our careers, and lives, really begin to transform, allowing us to transform those around us in turn.
This was a fun way to end a busy day. As I was walking home, the President’s motorcade came down Houston Street on the way to an event in Greenwich Village. I took the first photo using an iPhone, and went out later with my Sony Alpha 300 to catch the motorcade leaving Manhattan. East [...]
Kevin C. Tofel explains how simple branding transcends category names used by industry insiders, and captures a place in the public consciousness: Such simple branding and product awareness goes a long way toward helping Apple sell products. Look at the iPad, 3 million units of which the company has sold in just 80 days. Instead [...]
WikiLeaks is building a system that would enable any website to host a form for collecting disclosures: The upload system will give potential whistleblowers around the world the ability to leak sensitive documents to an organization or journalist they trust over a secure connection, while giving the receiver legal protection they might not otherwise enjoy. [...]
Ken Auletta: Tim O’Reilly, the founder and C.E.O. of O’Reilly Media, which publishes about two hundred e-books per year, thinks that the old publishers’ model is fundamentally flawed. “They think their customer is the bookstore,” he says. “Publishers never built the infrastructure to respond to customers.” Without bookstores, it would take years for publishers to [...]
