A Sunday afternoon walk down Pennsylvania Ave.
For all your Sunday afternoon napping needs.
Navy Memorial.
Newseum.
Upside down, underwater.
Monday morning commute.
When Craigslist Blocks Innovations
Nick Bilton:
So why hasn’t anyone managed to unseat Craigslist, a site that has barely changed in close to two decades?
It has dug an effective moat by cultivating an exaggerated image of “doing good” that keeps its customers loyal, while behind the scenes, it bullies any rivals that come near and it stifles innovation.
This is a great read that touched on a lot of questions I’ve had about the legality of Padmapper’s relationship to Craigslist, and I’m glad to see somebody call a spade a spade with regard to Craigslist’s bullying tactics.
How long can Craigslist defend their incumbent position through legal threats while refusing to improve their UX?
ER (Taken with Cinemagram)
“The disruption was not that we now finally had a nice phone; it was that, for better or for worse, we would now never again be without a computer or the Internet.”
New New Rdio
Below are the collected reactions of some of my favorite designers and developers to Rdio’s second web and desktop UI refresh in three months.
chartsnthings: Shan Carter (and an army of others) share some sketches from the NYT electoral map
…no one was really super thrilled with maps as the main conduit for the analysis. Instead, they decided on minimizing the geography and using “bins” for states. (Shan has sort of been obsessed with “bins” since 2008, when his dream of having states magically fall into buckets on election night ultimately didn’t pan out. I personally had to cheer him up after that and it was not pretty.)
Here is another great reminder for map-happy news nerds that sometimes the important patterns of a story are not really geographic in a way that is best conveyed through a choropleth or proportional symbol map. This graphic is brilliant and the process behind it is well worth your time.
(via drewvigal)
Visited the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library today and the Air Force One Pavilion was worth the price of admission.
City of Angels (Taken with Instagram at Griffith Observatory)
Paper has been hyped to me by multiple extremely smart, extremely talented folks at NPR, but I remained skeptical given my utter uselessness with at least three other drawing apps I’ve tried on iPad so far.
I’ve come around after spending some time with it this afternoon. Paper removes the paralysis of choice Adobe Ideas gave me with infinite brush size and color combinations while retaining just enough stroke variations to effectively translate the travel of a Wacom Bamboo stylus into UI sketches that don’t make me feel like I am a total fraud.
If you’ve been frustrated by the results other iPad drawing apps have yielded, I highly recommend you give tablet sketching another try with Paper.
