Articles
Perspectives on Wearables
25 April 2015
I'm interested in wearables (when they are not socially awkward) because of what they might become. What they are today is just a glimpse of the potential of such devices. → Read More
Something Slightly Less Terrible
15 January 2015
Loren Brichter: “The more I learn, the more terrible I think programming is. I’d love to rip everything up and start over.” → Read More
A Tiny Game That You Can Play Forever
19 December 2014
Up Up Down Down: “We then talk about the whimsical minimalism that works so well in indie games, and how to bring them to life. We talk about difficulty, complexity, and how to tune games.” → Read More
Taking a Break
01 August 2014
A common good practice recommended by almost any home-worker is to take a quick (3 minutes) walking break every 45 minutes or so. → Read More
Design Detail in iOS 8 Messages
03 June 2014
One of the features that I wanted the most in iOS 8 was simple: Add a “Use Last Photo Taken” button in the Messages app. → Read More
How Netflix Reverse Engineered Hollywood
07 January 2014
Alexis Madrigal: “We discovered that Netflix possesses not several hundred genres, or even several thousand, but 76,897 unique ways to describe types of movies.” → Read More
Unity 2D tutorial
21 November 2013
We cooked a complete tutorial about Unity and its new 2D tools. This tutorial covers the creation of a very small game from start to finish. → Read More
How Designers Destroyed the World
22 October 2013
Mike Monteiro: “There are professions more harmful than (industrial) design, but only a very few of them.” → Read More
You Must Prototype It in Code
18 October 2013
Jeff Atwood: “The most destructive symptom of over-planning is the wrongheaded idea that being a Software Architect™ means drawing a lot of UML diagrams and handing them off to a group of developers. […] You can't architect a real world application on a whiteboard. You must prototype it in code to gather data on the performance and design implications of the choices you are making.” → Read More