The experience of our primary mobile screen being a bank of app icons that lead to independent destinations is dying. And that changes what we need to design and build. The end of apps as we know them

Design Engineering http://t.co/qrFH9SQa7U

Jumping into the The Stream (Reuters). The Stream has been the organizing metaphor for the web for the past several years. In May 2009, a high-ranking editor of TechCrunch identified and summarized th

Published in Better Humans · 6 min read · Nov 18, 2014 -- A commonly quoted (and incredibly scary) stat reveals that 9 out of 10 people who undergo heart bypass surgeries as a result of poor health ar

Flickr/西文 Simon Science says lasting relationships come down to—you guessed it—kindness and generosity. Advertisement Advertisement Every day in June, the most popular wedding month of the year, about

вяιαη ∂.: Nashville is in an interesting place in this chart from @TheAtlantic: http://t.co/qqFuDgS6qV http://t.co/OSLlYHsGUU"

I spent the past two days at the Chrome Developer Summit in Mountain View. While the entire event was livestreamed and is now on YouTube , I thought it might be useful to talk a bit about where things

Behold the power of the “Interface Layer,” it’s not just about great design, it is about the integration of the actions that make life easier and the commoditization of the services underneath. It is

Growing up , my understanding of leadership was that it was a specific role, gift-wrapped certain responsibilities and bestowed upon someone, either by a Very Authoritative Person (like a VIP, but coo

4 min read · Nov 6, 2014 -- I’ve had two articles at the bottom of my Pocket for a while. Not just any ordinary articles though; rather, mega lists of blog posts: If I was going to read all the articl

Product research 101: How to do your research before diving into design http://t.co/xQdxfEqLKk

Oct 9, 2014 A Front-End Developer’s Ode To Specifications About The Author Dmitriy Fabrikant is the developer half of the designer-developer partnership that founded Specctr . (UI designers use Specct

Greek technical diver Alexandros Sotiriou discovers an intact "lagynos" ceramic table jug and a bronze rigging ring on the Antikythera Shipwreck. Credit: Brett Seymour, Copyright: Return to Antikythera 2014 A Greek and international team of divers and archaeologists has retrieved stunning new finds…

First of two parts If you haven’t seen it in the news, after its stock price broke the $800 barrier last month, Google moved into the No. 3 position among the most valuable firms in the world. Google is clearly the youngest firm among the leaders; it has surprisingly been less than a decade since…

Tweet Post Share Buy Copies Quick, name a product that was developed without using software. It’s difficult, if not impossible. Software has become a crucial part of almost all goods and services. It’

ARE geniuses just born with their brains wired differently? Or do their early experiences fashion a richer set of neuronal interconnections that let them view the world through a sharper lens? The lit

My Favorite Books on the History of Infrastructure (So Far…) The big stories behind big projects. City Water, City Life: Water and the Infrastructure of Ideas in Urbanizing Philadelphia, Boston, and Chicago by Carl Smith This is frankly one of the best books I have ever read. I cannot recommend it…

so I wrote about P. Thiel's mystical futurism on Friday, & apparently his book is a manifesto for mystical secrets http://t.co/cTnXkn56wS

"Zen and the Art of User Onboarding" http://t.co/e5lJlfePa7 Excellent.

Product innovation is like gentrification: The more you love what it's given you (safe streets and a hip coffee shop; a cool ad-free social media app), the more you wish it would stop right now before the thing you love changes again. It never stops, of course, but try telling that to the internet…

Michael Howard Contributor Editor’s note: Michael Howard is CEO of C9 , a provider of predictive sales and marketing applications that enable companies to increase revenue, generate more precise forec

“Hey,” someone said behind me. “Hey, dude?” It occurred to me that I was the dude in question, and that this person had been calling out to me for some time, with a kind of mellow intensity — not angr

"The problem, however, is that SOA means too many different things.." by @martinfowler via @lhochstein http://t.co/snvZUWpoXH #microservices

Your marketing approach will depend on the pain you're targeting. "One thing that people don't appreciate enough is that there's different types of pain." - Patrick McKenzie Before you start building

The Seismic Blog Trends & Insights Enablement Sales Marketing One Seismic ENABLEMENT How sales enablement solves content chaos 6 min read Editor’s picks ONE SEISMIC 5 reasons to attend Seismic Shift ‘

It’s time to reformulate the principles guiding my work. [Revised definition of complexity in response to misunderstandings] Inessential complexity is the root of all evil Most of the problems of soft

“Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.” Danica McKellar Advertisement As we usher in t

Hacking the paragraph — building on @kevinmarks' idea of fragmentations: https://t.co/xuVfdg0Z64

Understanding the Kano Model – A Tool for Sophisticated Designers by Jared M. Spool Thanks to Sciencelakes for the Danish translation to this article.Thanks to Vitaly Mijiritsky for the Hebrew translation to this article.Thanks to Nadia Karbowska for the Polish translation to this article. When…

A yet another nice case study on redesigning busuu (a product designer perspective). https://t.co/E7FniPnenF

W e have come to the end of privacy; our private lives, as our grandparents would have recognised them, have been winnowed away to the realm of the shameful and secret. To quote ex-tabloid hack Paul M

I moderated a panel of hypermedia experts at API Craft in Detroit last week. One theme that dominated not just the panel, but was also pervasive in the conversation over the next two days of the API e