http://en.delcaos.com we bring forth order Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:23:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A few years back, let's say 2006, iA put together an impressive redesign of Facebook that provides a much cleaner feel and a cool horizontal information flow from less to more specific. Filter to info stream to reaction as they put it in the article. I dig the clear hierarchy of ... http://en.delcaos.com/2010/04/ia-redesign-of-facebook-circa-2006/ Todd Lapin shot a video of his 2.5 year old daughter playing with the iPad for the first time that's been getting a lot of link love on YouTube (embed below). The video's very cute and points to easy iPad adoption by iPhone users of all ages. The video doesn't ... http://en.delcaos.com/2010/04/2-5-year-old-ipad-usability-tester/ My first thoughts on the iPad included a lot of concerns about not being able to create on the iPad yet and pointing toward graphical applications as the quickest road to delivering that. iPad specific answers to the creation challenge are appearing. This video for iMockups places a nice face on ... http://en.delcaos.com/2010/03/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-like-the-ipad/ There have been varied reactions to the iPad but those that most interest me are those that go beyond Apple's marketing message of "the iPad is a new thing that will revolutionize computing" and ask "where will this revolution lead?" An angle I find especially interesting is expressed in Alex Payne's ... http://en.delcaos.com/2010/02/digital-lifestyle-devices-and-our-curious-future/ The long awaited Apple tablet is announced. We've had the opportunity to "see [their] latest creation." Time to consider what it all means. Pre-release expectations Talking with friends about the iPad back when we were all still speculating on the name we came across rumors that dashed our early hopes. The tablet ... http://en.delcaos.com/2010/01/ithoughts-on-ipad/ In his Spoolcast interview Dan Brown provides some interesting perspectives on documentation and design deliverables, using his book Communicating Design as a starting point. Growing documents Brown begins by suggesting that designers start documents with a basic nucleus of necessary information then adding detail in layers. He also put forward the idea ... http://en.delcaos.com/2009/01/documenting-design-dan-brown/ Apple puts iPhone Nano and Netbook rumors to rest | NetworkWorld.com Community. I find the rumors circulating about a low-feature iPhone and an Apple netbook interesting in that I don't understand what drives this speculation. It seems completely inconsistent with the brand experience that Apple maintains through the iPhone and Mac ... http://en.delcaos.com/2009/01/iphone-nano-and-netbook-rumors/ Chris Anderson on freeing technology's anti-inflationary power. Anderson brings up important points on balancing environmental protection and global costs of living. Are parts of our environmental protection effort creating unnecessary scarcity? Are countries' economic protections driving prices up artificially? I'd add some questions of my own. Are we pushing for or supporting ... http://en.delcaos.com/2008/09/freeing-technology-to-save-us/ Early this summer I flew United into Denver to attend a family reunion. Anyone that flies there regularly can tell you that the most consistent difficulty in flying into Denver is the turbulent air. This last time was no exception, we had persistent rough air all through the flight, which presented ... http://en.delcaos.com/2008/09/transparent-airlines/ At TED 2006, Hans Rosling presented some cool data visualizations created to shed light on trends in Human Development (specifically health and economic prosperity). He and his nonprofit Gapminder have done some cool things with visualization to bring out aspects of the data that get ignored, but as he notes, we ... http://en.delcaos.com/2006/08/visualizing-human-development/