Facebook's Ben Barry On How To Hack Your Job by Jake Cook A look inside Facebook's Analog Research Laboratory. Former Rolling Stone journalist and author Julia Cameron once said, "What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us,…

13 small things to simplify your workday “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” ~Lao Tzu Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on twitter or identica. One of the best things I did when…

Technical founders have already become prerequisites in the world of tech startups. Now get ready for the designer founder. The combination of this new duo is going to change the world of tech forever. To quote Daniel Pink in his book A Whole New Mind, The last few decades have belonged to a certain…

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Back in the early 1980s, Dieter Rams was becoming increasingly concerned by the state of the world around him – “an impenetrable confusion of forms, colours and noises.” Aware that he was a significant contributor to that world, he asked himself an important question: is my design good design? As…

Fri 26 Aug 2011 Over at Ars Technica, they’re asking whether the iPad is a PC or not, with some debate over the semantic boundaries of the term: does a PC have to have a keyboard? Must it be directly programmable? Does it have to be an open system? It’s an interesting discussion. Apple’s line, of…

Sunday September 4, 2011, Anna Heim Start typing “the American dream” in Google and a suggestion will come up: “the American dream is dead”. Yet, two of the most promising startups in Brazil, EverWrite and DeskMetrics, are about to move to the US, with headquarters in Delaware. So why have they…

This post originally ran on Aug. 24, after Steve Jobs stepped down as CEO of Apple. It has been updated to reflect the news of his death. Steve Jobs, one of the fathers of the personal computing era and the founder of Apple, died Wednesday at the age of 56. Although he will be remembered for…

It seems odd, if not entirely counterintuitive, to find any building on Facebook’s main campus devoid of devices connected to the social-networking site. But inside the slightly grungy old warehouse that houses the company’s Analog Research Lab, there isn’t a single computer in sight. Instead, the…

In the talk I’ve been giving at conferences this year, With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, there’s a section where I mention baseline grids; specifically, what I’ve learned from doing a large-scale print project like 8 Faces. However, until now, I haven’t really covered the subject on this…

Oh Google Maps… where would I be without thee? Probably still driving down a back road half way to New Mexico by now. And all I wanted was to go to the corner store. But this isn’t an article on my lack of navigational skills. It’s about how we all like to know how to get around without getting…

by anthony on 08/17/11 at 10:17 pm Designers use rounded corners so much today that they’re more of an industry standard than a design trend. They’re not only found on software user interfaces, but hardware product designs as well. So what is it about rounded corners that make them so popular?…

“The 44-pixel block is, in many ways, the basic unit of mea­sure­ment for the iPhone inter­face, estab­lish­ing the visual rhythm of many iPhone apps. That met­ric is sig­nif­i­cant as the rec­om­mended min­i­mum size to make a tap tar­get (like a but­ton or list item) eas­ily and reli­ably…

Published Jul 29, 2011 in Design All the phrases above, which I had gath­ered on Quora, sug­gest a reduc­tion­ist approach to design. It seems to me most peo­ple who sub­scribe to the min­i­mal­is­tic mind­set don’t have a clue what sim­plic­ity really is. Less is not more. Enough is more. Before I…

Halfway through 2004, I openly predicted incessant redesigning would become somewhat cessant by the same year’s end: Forward thinkers understand content is still king and focus on such while deploying minimal upgrades, rather than relying on skillful makeovers that gain short-lived traffic spurts…

In early fall, we'll be launching our new home: The Verge. Sign up there for updates on the project! I’m a real sucker for natural user interface. I eat it up at tradeshows, I drain my wallet on the various accessories, and I carpal my tunnels with its contortions. But does it make me fitter /…

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July 17, 2011 In digital media—websites in particular—news outlets seldom if ever treat content with any sort of dignity and most news sites are wedded to a broken profit model that compels them to present a nearly unusable mishmash of pink noise…which they call content. In an effort to disguise and…

At your next moment of change and opportunity, what kind of leader will you be? This question arose again recently as we kicked off a major web project with a client. The goals of the project were typical enough: improve usability, differentiate the firm, and close the gap with competitors. But that…

Non-technical entrepreneurs are constantly on the hunt for a technical co-founder. Former Digg Creative Director and Milk co-founder Daniel Burka says he constantly hears from people who have the ‘greatest idea ever’ and they want to know how to get it built. “Ideas really are cheap, building is…

Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of keeping your team professionally content because they’ve either never done the work or have forgotten…

The desktop browser wars are fiercer than ever, with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and *cough* Internet Explorer all in a heated race for users (and new features). But there’s a relatively new market that’s still ripe for a surge in browser innovation: mobile. All of the aforementioned browsers…

I’m going to write a series of posts on different career tracks in software engineering and design over the next few months. This is the first of ‘em, I don’t have a timeline for the rest but will get to them all in due course, and am happy to take requests in the comments Recently, I wrote up two…

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Raising funding for an early-stage venture is always difficult. There is no bottled recipe for success, but even if you have a great concept that is scalable combined with a passionate team that can execute the growth strategy, you still need to communicate this in a multifaceted investor’s…

Starting today, you might begin noticing that things look a little different across Google products. We’re working on a project to bring you a new and improved Google experience, and over the next few months, you’ll continue to see more updates to our look and feel. Even our classic homepage is…