Ron Diver

H/T to ASteele.

Glenn didn’t need to try to impress ME when he gave the keynote at the Seattle 2.0 Awards, but he knocked it out of the park anyway.  Great, inspiring talk.  God speed, Redfin & Co. Seattle 2.0 Awards – Glenn Kelman’s inspiring speech from Seattle20 on Vimeo.

Lovely animation by James Jarvis, sponsored by Nike.  (H/T to the Design Commission). Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.

When mucking around in software circles it’s sometimes necessary to argue that design refers to how things work, not just how they look. Make things useful before making them pretty, if at all.  Craigslist and Amazon are hideous, but are both fantastic designs for getting things done. Twitter outsources the pretty in order to grapple [...]

The AppStoreHQ has preliminary results from their survey of iPhone App promotion posted to their blog.  There are lots of good bits in the write-up, even if I come away from the work wanting. For example, there seems to be quite a few ‘quick hit’ type opportunities like creating a dashboard to help track traffic [...]