Posts Tagged ‘definitions

It’s been a week since I got back from the Information Architecture Summit. It was great, and fascinating, and interesting. There’s been a lot of food for thought churning in the back of my head, and now I’m going to try to make sense of it. One of the strongest themes was about pulling together [...]


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My name is Leanna Gingras and I'm a graduate student at the University of Michigan's School of Information. My main vice is angry muttering. Instead of angrily muttering to myself whenever I encounter an astonishingly ineptly-designed object, I will mutter about it here and you can read it and we can angrily mutter together. I'll also be posting about stuff I do, links I think are nifty, and places I go.

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  • Marc Toner: That's a prime example how lazy testing can result in really negative press. As you said, I doubt th [...]
  • Damon: I typed in this domain hoping it was either unregistered or already home to a massive database of ni [...]
  • George: The seat adjustments in a VW should be the standard for cars. I love the way the whole seat folds [...]
  • Zach: I always wondered about this myself. I always type the URL, virtually never use bookmarks. I also ge [...]
  • Tijmen Smit: This is one of the things that really annoys me sometimes. You think you tried the wrong url since i [...]

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It is easy enough to recognise when a room is properly lit and a staircase easy to navigate, but so much harder to convert this intuitive sense of well-being into a logical understanding of the reasons for it. To design means forcing ourselves to unlearn what we believe we already know, patiently to take apart the mechanisms behind our reflexes and to acknowledge the mystery and stupefying complexity of everyday gestures like switching off a light or turning on a tap. — Alain de Botton

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