On the Dorm Room Tycoon podcast, host William Channer and I talk about how startups can take advantage of the mobile opportunity. We also touch on a number of key points from my Mobile First book.
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Why Startups should Think about Mobile First
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Sitepoint: Mobile First for Web Developers
On The SitePoint Podcast, host Louis Simoneau quizzed me about the Mobile First design approach and the reasons I’ve been advocating it. If you’re curious about designing for mobile up front, I tried to distill things into a concise overview in this high-signal interview. http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?1513
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99% Invisible: The Bathtubs or the Boiler Room
Great story.
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Interview with David Byrne at TED2010 : Mark Frauenfelder
[Mark Frauenfelder] enjoyed David Byrne’s presentation at TED2010. He spoke about the way artists create their music and other works to look and sound their best in the venue they appear in. After his presentation, [Mark Frauenfelder] asked him about his research, his upcoming projects, and his run-in with the City of New York regarding the bike stands he designed.
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Jonathan Meades - Building Futures
What we build should encourage and inspire the next generation to take architecture on. The built environment is a key cultural asset and the profession is responsible for maintaining its quality and its reputation. Shouldn’t we be promoting and encouraging a more energetic approach to building that celebrates vitality and daring?
Or is the pursuit of vibrant landmarks merely encouraging over the top, brash and, predominantly, masculine gestering offering nothing but mere ‘fizz’ and ego?
Jonathan Meades argues against.
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Will Self: Stockwell Bus Garage
As part of the lecture series ‘Critic’s Choice: London’s Most Important Building’, author Will Self has proposed the Stockwell Bus Garage designed by Adie, Button and Partners, with the engineer A E Beer for its revolutionary, beautiful and highly utilitarian form. When constructed in 1952 it was the largest area enclosed by a single roof in Europe. The whale-backed roof made of reinforced concrete, shows how shortages - in this case of steel - can produce aesthetic as well as functional solutions. Having passed it everyday he has appreciated it as ‘a working building, integrally connected to London’s public transport’.
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LukeW | Audio: Packaging Design for the Web
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Gerry Gaffney on the User Experience Podcast series about what Web designers can learn from the world of product packaging, about ‘unpacking’ as a metaphor for registration, the rule of threes, and about embraci …
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TSN: Perception and the Beholder’s Share (Tom Albright)
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99% Invisible
The Speed of Light for Building Pyramids — Last year, Steve Burrows CBE (Principle at the engineering consulting firm Arup) spent several weeks in Egypt studying the pyramids through the eyes of a modern day structural engineer. The result, which was presented in a documentary for the Discovery Channel and published in an article for DesignIntelligence, presented fascinating insights […]
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99% Invisible
Darth Vader Family Courthouse — It’s hard to imagine a place where more desperate and depressing drama unfolds on a daily basis than a family courthouse- custody battles, abuse, divorce- and if you were to design a place to reflect and amplify that misery, not mitigate it, it’d probably take the form of the old New […]
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