37-minute that I will never forget, ever. Please, do watch the documentary. So good.
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Ben Brown:
I think an even better solution would be to remove the password completely, allowing users to login with only an email address. Each time a user needs to login, they enter their email address and receive a login link via email.
Read the follow-up post here.
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Nothing is more destructive to good design than group thinking and collective decision making. Why? As I said, to most people good design is invisible. Group decisions focus on the visible, bad aspects of design.
Read the whole article, full of great advices on design and on life too.
John Scalzi explains who gets to be a geek (spoiler: anybody) and the difference between geeks and hipsters:
Many people believe geekdom is defined by a love of a thing, but I think — and my experience of geekdom bears on this thinking — that the true sign of a geek is a delight in sharing a thing. It’s the major difference between a geek and a hipster, you know: When a hipster sees someone else grooving on the thing they love, their reaction is to say “Oh, crap, now the wrong people like the thing I love.”
Update: John Scalzi have a follow-up here.
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The design of the Rio 2016™ font depicts the essence of the Olympic and Paralympic emblems: Passion and Transformation. The boldness of this creation is not only in the design, but also in its importance for the design market in Brazil. The Rio 2016™ font is one of only a few bespoke fonts created by a Brazilian team.
Type as a brand is more lucrative than just a logomark alone.
What would happen if a rainbow falls to a building? Make a kindergarten out of it. Pajol Kindergarten, in France by Palatre et Leclere Architectes.
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Dmitry Fadeyev:
Where the opinion is tied to a judgement however, changing opinion is deemed wrong because there appears an unspoken assumption that your power of judgement may be poor if you have to go back on the choices you’ve previously made. That is, of course, nonsense, for to change your opinion based on new information or better understanding is to be honest with yourself and others, and it is the only way to grow.
Focuses on the individual in a crowd. It particularly imitates the way in which the human eye observes: Not viewing a crowd as a crowd, but observing little micro-scenes inside of it.
Mesmerizing. I love the philosophy behind this project. Capturing what words can’t describe, photography can’t capture, or video will overlook, but GIF can, or rather a partial animation can captured. It captured an experience in an instance. Head over to Nicolas’ site to explore more of this project.
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