posted by DL Byron on February 04, 2010
Anyone with a dog in the iPad hunt has posted something more thoughtful than “it sucks” or “want” by now. After selectively scanning the various provocative posts, I chose Mule Design’s blog to leave a comment. It begins with, “email is for old people” and follows Mike Monteiro’s point that, “the iPad isn’t the future of computing; it’s a replacement for computing.”

Image by Mule Design.
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posted by DL Byron on January 30, 2010
Lots going on in this photo, besides the Funky Cool Lion of the 60s. Had I taken that professor career path, would want to live in a building called the Iliad. Hope when that building gets torn down, someone saves the Lion.
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posted by DL Byron on January 25, 2010
While user experience isn’t our thing at TDI, liked these iPhone UI stencils and sticky notes. They’re made by Design Commission. They hosted the Refresh Seattle talk last week.
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posted by DL Byron on January 20, 2010
Talking about bikes and web design at Refresh Seattle tomorrow night with Kevin Tamura from Blue Flavor:
Design the Ordinary like this Fixie explains how fixies are a good study in form and function for web designers. Fixies were built by cyclists from ordinary parts to serve a specific function and they’ve become part of pop culture. We’ll discuss topics like
What if consumers, like bike messengers making fixies, built a purpose-built website to do one thing? What would that look like?

Kevin and I are also presenting this talk at Microsoft Mix10.