The biggest problem with redesigns, however, is their removal of context. Design is compromise. Anyone who’s ever designed a logo, made a movie, or built a house, knows that the final product reflects a series of mostly hidden goals and constraints. To redesign without knowing these constraints — the client insisted on pink! the lead actor broke […]

People have been hearing all sorts of things about computers during the past ten years through the media. Supposedly computers have been controlling various aspects of their lives. Yet, in spite of that, most adults have no idea what a computer really is, or what it can or can’t do. Now, for the first time, […]

Voglio capire come il giornalismo si inserisca nel panorama informativo odierno. Prima di tutto, denoto uno spostamento da contenuto a prodotto. Una fonte d’informazione è molto più delle storie che produce; è anche il sistema con cui decide quali notizie coprire, o come consegnare al lettore l’informazione. In secondo luogo, dobbiamo includere gli algoritmi. Tutte […]

Twitter is two things. It is a concept — everyone in the world connected in real time — that’s so obvious in retrospect that it is impossible to imagine it not existing. It is also a product that has had a rough time living up to that concept. […] “For users that use Twitter and are […]

Nel momento in cui la stampa diventa uguale all’ambiente informativo che la circonda, nell’istante in cui le informazioni che possiamo raggiungere sui social network su Twitter e sui media sono le medesime, in quel momento la stampa perde il proprio ruolo di bussola informativa e si trasforma in semplice aggregatore dei deliri del mondo. — […]

Il numero di cittadini che si collega quotidiamente a Internet in Italia oggi secondo Eurostat è il 58%. Si tratta di un dato importante perché esprime prevalentemente il divario culturale rispetto a quello infrastrutturale. In un Paese come l’Italia che ha connettività paragonabile a quella di molti altri paesi europei, quei 4 cittadini su 10 […]

The crux of the Internet loneliness debate isn’t actually the Internet; it’s the tension between Internet reality and real world reality. There’s a sense in which the Internet is somehow fake, and that the real world is better, but we go online to talk about it anyway, hovering in that space between technological connection and […]

On the very first iteration the design possibilities are wide open. The designer defines some screens and workflows and then the programmer builds those. On the next iteration, it’s not wide open anymore. The new design has to fit into the existing design, and the new code needs to fit into the existing code. Old […]

People don’t like what they don’t understand and so far, nobody understands the Apple Watch. I’m not even sure anybody can; we just don’t know enough about it at this point. In the absence of a valid reference, many are sure to dismiss it as either irrelevant or flawed, simply because it doesn’t conform to their own […]

We allow people access to us 24/7. We’re always in public, constantly checking an anonymous comment box, trying to explain ourselves to everyone, and trying to win unwinnable arguments with strangers who don’t matter in our lives at all. — Marco Arment

According to a 2011 study, on a typical day, we take in the equivalent of about 174 newspapers’ worth of information, five times as much as we did in 1986. — New York Times, Hit the Reset Button in Your Brain

The challenges present in photography today are not in the devices we use to capture, it’s not in our approach, skill level, or what we think we need to create good photos; the problem today is in social pressure. Photography has quickly evolved in its short lifespan from revolutionary, to useful, to ubiquitous and full […]

Quitting iOS apps to save battery is like unscrewing the light bulb in the fridge before you close. The fridge handles it. Just trust it. — Bradley Chambers

In a world where objects are connected to the Internet, you could imagine one sock emailing the other to say it fell behind the dryer, or the buttons on your shirt could be heart monitors that notify your doctor if you’re not feeling well. […] I’d love to have my refrigerator text me when I was low […]

The future of the iPad is not to be a better Mac. That may happen by accident, just as the Mac eventually superseded the Apple II, but to pursue that explicitly would be to sacrifice what the iPad might become, and, more importantly, what it already is. Moreover, for those geeks clamoring for Mac features, why […]

Unplugging from devices doesn’t stop us from experiencing our lives through their lenses, frames, and formats. We are only ever tourists in the land of no technology, our visas valid for a day or a week or a year. That is why so many of those who unplug return so quickly to speak about their […]

There is too much Really Very Important information. You are always going to miss things, things that you shouldn’t miss. That’s just how the world is now. You have to learn to be ok with it. In time the net will teach you that you simply can’t care about everything that deserves to be cared about. […]