Laynee’s Surprise Party
Platform-A (or is it “A-Platform”) gets a logo.
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
This series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on.
Microsoft Sales Team Rocks! And we’re going to keep rocking with SP1!!
Jon Wiley, User Experience Designer for Google Apps, outlined some of the most important principles for designing interfaces at Google. In his presentation at the WritersUA conference, Jon listed the following guidelines:
1. Useful: focus on people - their lives, their work, their dreams.
2. Fast: every millisecond counts.
3. Simple: simplicity is powerful.
4. Engaging: engage beginners and attract experts.
5. Innovative: dare to be innovative.
6. Universal: design for the world.
7. Profitable: plan for today’s and tomorrow’s business.
8. Beautiful: delight the eye without distracting the mind.
9. Trustworthy: be worthy of people’s trust.
10. Personable: add a human touch.
