Yesterday I started working on a "panes" page for a project and I think shifting the pane so it appears like a stacked paper make a lot of sense after seeing it in action.
It's really tough to switch search engines when Google's results are so good the majority of the time. The crux of the problem is that you have to choose. It's more arduous to navigate to a different search engine than it is to repeatedly tweak your query until you get the results you want.
You really shouldn't have to choose search engines though. It'd be great to have the option of seeing results from multiple search engines on the same query, maybe in like split frames, it'd save so much time. I should get started on writing a Chrome extension.
No, and thank you, that's totally cool. It kind of illustrates the value of having an extension that does this with omnibox queries. Without the 'blind test' aspect, obviously.
I like timelapses like these, because often, finished work can appear obvious to people who aren't designers. They can't imagine that it would take several hours to complete something seemingly simple or minimal. But watching a designer work reveals interesting parts of the thought process and the myriad decisions involved.
It’s a lot like programming in that way. I’ve done enough of both that it bums me out when I see programmers looking at designers and saying “what’s the big deal, it’s just drawings” and designers looking at programmers and saying “what’s the big deal, it’s just logic”.
Simple stuff tends to be hard because tiny mistakes are easy to spot.
The counter examples are legion, but Apple's future growth is dominated by Asia (esp. China).
Western companies selling (likely chinese-made) goods to China without investing in serious design, development and marketing (not to mention ecosystem and support) are not going to have much of a future, I agree.
Oh, absolutely, in the present and for the immediate future. But the not so distant future, like five or ten years out? Do you think the lead in terms of design and marketing is less surmountable than the hardware design and manufacturing?
I admit to not really knowing much about the Chinese market. But a low-cost home grown tablet brand competing against a foreign competitor, running Baidu Yi or whatever else emerges, is going to have certain undeniable advantages—just like Baidu, Renren, et al have advantages and have in many ways caught up to their western equivalents.
I'm curious about the other direction. Will the little scrappy Chinese companies be able to win over a significant fraction of Western customers, or will brand-recognition act as to much of a deterrent against them?
I'd imagine logistics would play into it also. Not just shipping, but things like UL certification. When your're working on the sort of razor thin margins they certainly are at that price point...
That isn't a very good example because Hyundai now makes some rather good cars and isn't Chinese. It's also a bit like avoiding Porsches because their logo looks like Ferrari's.
A stylized "H" isn't exactly a unique logo idea, and the cars themselves don't look similar other than the commonality shared by broad categories such as "basic four door compact car"
wasn't implying Hyundai is Chinese. was two example of the same mentality.
and yes, Hyundai is a good brand now. they even styled the H diferently, but their first cars, e.g. the pony, was a copy of Honda's offering at the time. and you never saw a pony because it couldn't even pass US emission regulations of the time. if it's an OK brand now, it's because it got a lot of money from people that couldn't afford a honda before.
anyway, to keep the analogy in context, i'd buy a huawei device, but not other brands that have a plastic case and/or brand name that is almost the same as a linksys one
I think that's an overly reductive assessment to say 'mobile phones and banner ads.' Mobile computers are extremely sophisticated communication tools and platforms—stuff that used to be science fiction—the social, cultural, scientific benefits of which are immeasurable.
For many people, high intensity/high contrast also causes eyestrain. There's nothing wrong or unreadable about medium contrast text, despite what the somewhat triumphalist contrastrebellion would have you believe.
> For all I know, my Motorola may have been made there as well.
Yes, Foxconn makes Motorola phones too. Farley admits the obvious: that making it about Jobs and Apple sells more tickets and makes a more interesting story, and that it's really a rant against the entire electronics industry. And given the very ugly history of industrialization in the West, I can't help thinking there's a certain naiveté behind the moral outrage.
They do have a lower information density, but I think the old page design was cluttered. The new pages look better.
In my opinion the big downside to the new pages is how getting to almost every bit of content requires some kind of XLR, so interactions feel laggy.