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Posts tagged “Design”
Seriously, though, it’s nice to see from the PS3 Slim Teardown that Sony has elected to use a very large fan — about 95mm — with a brushless motor and unusually large impeller blades. This allows it to push more air at a lower speed and, more importantly, a much lower noise level than smaller fans. (The huge, slow, quiet fans in a Mac Pro and many well-designed desktop PCs are 120mm, the diameter of a CD.)
The Xbox 360’s operational noise is almost embarrassing. This, alone, makes the PS3 much more suited for the media-centric roles that both companies are pushing their consoles toward.
I wish I cared enough about Blu-Ray (or games) to buy one.
“I’ll scale it a little bit. Hmmm, maybe just a little more. More. More. I have so much power. I’m drunk in scaling power. More. More. Scale it more. Don’t stop. Do it. Okay, that’s enough.”
—Under Consideration’s Brand New
Best critique of the Bing logo.
Interesting way for the major Korean portals to go black & white to mourn an ex-president’s passing.
Korean internet portals join the mourning as the former president dies
Verizon has a new logo. It has a sort of Japanese feel to the logo, a sort of design that US companies seldom ever embrace. I like this a lot, it’s outsider. Cloud metaphor is a nice touch, a bit obvious but a nice touch. Word has it that it’s the work of R/GA.
BrandNew: New Verizon logo and marketing campaign
A building designed by Rem Koolhaas in Seoul. Kottke has a brief description, it’s basically a building with four different sides to accommodate events. Based on the event, the building flips to a different side. A sort of art instillation, building oddity and design experience all in one. Check out the arial photos, if you look carefully a Koolhaas building looks quite distinctive next to centuries old Korean palaces.
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
—Steve Jobs regarding the role of design at Google.
daringfireball finds another wayback quote from 2003 that always works well for today.
“I can’t articulate it anymore. I really love color. I’m not very knick-knacky or cluttery. My place has very clean, simple lines. There are some elements of fun and whimsy. That has always appealed to me.”
— Marissa Mayer on her penthouse and the similarities it shares with Google. Fascinating read about an interesting individual.
“Yes, it’s true that a team at Google couldn’t decide between two blues, so they’re testing 41 shades between each blue to see which one performs better. I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such miniscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.
I can’t fault Google for this reliance on data. And I can’t exactly point to financial failure or a shrinking number of users to prove it has done anything wrong. Billions of shareholder dollars are at stake. The company has millions of users around the world to please. That’s no easy task. Google has momentum, and its leadership found a path that works very well. When I joined, I thought there was potential to help the company change course in its design direction. But I learned that Google had set its course long before I arrived. Google was a massive aircraft carrier, and I was just a small dingey trying to push it a few degrees North.
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— Douglas Bowman’s last day at Google. Interesting to see when design is controlled by engineers.
