Not Easily Obvious
OSX Mojave comes with a little-publicised feature called Stacks. Apple patented the design for this in 1992, first implemented it in a half-hearted way in 2003 and then it took another 15 years before they launched it in the way it was envisaged.
Julie Zhou's post looking back on what she learned in 2016 was widely shared in my social media designery bubble. I thought this was a good insight: you will always be treated as a service if you assume your role is to wait around for others to come to you with some specific problem to …
Casey Newton at The Verge was one of many journalists who went to google's show-and-tell about the Google Car, where it trundled them around a parking lot on top of a re-purposed mall that Google now has offices in. Lots of the pieces about this even were sort of wide-eyed wonder combined with utter banality. "The …
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