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UX short list

1: Use Clear Calls-to-Action
In any given Web page, email, advertisement, whatever—make it clear what the user is supposed to do next. If there are too many competing messages, or the call-to-action is somehow camouflaged, we’re making the user work too hard.

2: Put a Priority on Creative
There’s no substitute for good graphic design.

3: Make Personal Connections (Or At Least Fake It)
Remember that’s it’s all about people. Be sure to know your audience. It’s impossible to develop a good solution if you don’t know the motivations and context of your site’s users.

4: Don’t Let The Man Throw You Off Your Game
… That means strategizing with a client, building consensus within a group, communicating the pros and cons of multiple options, and in general making smart, confident recommendations. Being able to explain and defend your thought process is critical.

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Project Bueller! →

SUCH a great idea. I’d like to see this done at the next Prop H8 march. Now that would be bitchin.
I want it

“It is quite beautiful, people boxing and then coming to the chessboard bleeding profusely. I like the idea of that.”

http://www.chessboxing.com/ (thanks to Paolo)

“I think most of us are most pleased that he was elected, full-stop. That he’s the first black president is the cherry on top of the awesome sundae.”

A List, more

Spike Lee
Robert Rauschenberg
Jim Jarmulsch
Gilbert & George
Susan Sontag
Black Francis
Wim Wenders
Stephen Hawking
NYTimes
The House of Mirth
The Great Gatsby
A Book of Memories
Norma
The Marriage of Figaro
Louis Armstrong
Violin Concerto No. 1, Tchaikovsky
singing mooses! Harry Shearer.
singing mooses! Harry Shearer.

…world as a barrier against barbarism. It was intended as a symbol of Western superiority and a triumph over nature.

By contrast, Mr. Piano’s vision avoids arrogance. The ethereality of the academy’s structure suggests a form of reparations for the great harm humans have done to the natural world. It is best to tread lightly in moving forward, he seems to say. This is not a way of avoiding hard truths; he means to shake us out of our indolence.

—NYT. I forget what it was about.

“There is, in a way, a kind of talent required to tell the nation that it’s teetering on the brink of disaster in a way that makes the viewers’ attention wander.”

—Gail Collins NYT 9/25