technology trends
I just updated my utility belt. Well, metaphorically speaking – every self-respecting geek has one. Lately I’ve been trying to minimize what I carry around even further. After having children I’ve come to appreciate the value of less stuff in my life. So here’s my everyday carry in
wallets
If we geeks obsessively optimize what's on our keychain, we'd be remiss if we didn't also obsessively optimize that other item most geeks carry around – our wallet. My current Tumi wallet was almost 10 years old and starting to show its age. While I
minimalism
John Maeda created quite a stir with his montage of the Yahoo and Google homepages from 1996 to 2006 in simple is about staying simple [http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000263.html]: Although Philipp Lenssen has posted on this topic before (he calls it the portal plague [http:
usability
Philipp Lenssen recently conducted an interesting experiment in usability minimalism where he visually deleted all the unused elements from the web pages he visits every day. Viewing some of Philipp's native German web pages, I was reminded how powerful conventions can be; the page layout and formatting are