January 30th, 2010
I have an idea for a thing (1 million people)
I tried to build a thing (50,000 people)
I built a thing that works (10,000 people)
I built a thing that people use (1,000)
I built a thing that’s easy to use (50 people)
I built a thing that people enjoy using (5 people)
I built a thing that people love (1 person)
Andy Budd
January 30th, 2010
You know how everyone who has ever done Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? always says, “It’s not the same when you’re actually here. So different from when you’re sitting at home watching.”? You know how often you’ve heard that? Well, you’ll hear the same from anyone who’s handled an iPad. The moment you experience it in your hands you know this is class. This is a different order of experience. The speed, the responsiveness, the smooth glide of it, the richness and detail of the display, the heft in your hand, the rightness of the actions and gestures that you employ, untutored and instinctively, it’s not just a scaled up iPhone or a scaled-down multitouch enhanced laptop – it is a whole new kind of device.
Stephen Fry
December 19th, 2009
To clarify: http://thereisnopagefold.com is true, insofar as web pages do not fold. There is a viewport though which demands consideration.
Jon Tan
November 10th, 2009
I just said in a non-news related discussion: “You can’t ask people to pay for things that can easily be copied.
Oliver Reichenstein of Information Architects [via twitter]
October 18th, 2009
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand