November 2009
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The beauty of small →
jxnblk: Smaller homes require less heating, less cleaning, less maintenance, force you to simplify, are cozier. If there’s one thing I learned when I was in Japan, it’s that small is awesome. | @jxnblk I am jealous of the experience!
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October 2009
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O+A uses employee opinion to design Facebook HQ →
(Found via laureola / freundevonfreunden) San Francisco based interior design firm Studio O+A have designed the new offices for the Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The design of the space relied heavily on input from the users, appropriate for a flatly structured company that weights every employee’s opinion equally.
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“Traces” by Chris O’Shea, is an interactive piece that reacts to people standing ontop creating this beautiful knight-rider looking tracks. Fits with the VW Scirocco style completely.
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It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not...
– Steve Jobs (via minimalmac)
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The myth of the page fold →
matthewb: Following extensive testing, Joe Leech and Fiz Yazdi conclude that users do scroll beyond the fold in the vast majority of cases, and that cramming all of the content above this imaginary line might actually have the opposite effect:
The surprising thing we learnt was that actually having less above the fold (one large content block as opposed to 2 smaller ones) encouraged exploration...
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
– Josh Billings (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via disappearcompletely)
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