Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label design. Show all posts
Thursday, October 21, 2021

DIY: Homebuilt Substitute for Vixen Mount

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The Vixen Company, Ltd., of Saitama, Japan, (founded 1949) got the brilliant idea to make all of their telescopes compatible with all of the...
Thursday, December 1, 2016

Creature Comforts Show No End to History

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It is a wonderful time to be alive.  We have become so used to material abundance that we have lost all perspective on where we are in the d...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Raymond Loewy

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Today's Google Doodle celebrated the 120th birthday of Raymond Loewy, the father of industrial design.   Raymond Loewy is called “t...
Saturday, August 3, 2013

Visualizing Complex Data

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Edward R. Tufte's classic works - Envisioning Information , Visual Explanation , and The Visual Display of Quantitative Inform...
Friday, May 31, 2013

Readability is the Only Metric

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What you can measure, you can improve.   Whether you need creative content for e-commerce or step-by-step instructions for machine repair, y...
Monday, April 22, 2013

OBJECTIFIED

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Objectified is a film by Gary Hustwit about design, designers, and the objects that they create.  Dieter Rams of Braun and Apple’s Jonathan...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

The Genius of Design

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“For industrial designers, the world is never enough. They give shape and texture to the world to make it livable—indeed, beautiful—for the ...
Monday, September 24, 2012

Documentation is Specification

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Good software design begins with documentation.  Write the user manual first.  The design documents specify the desired outputs, and the inp...