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Beautiful != usable

OK, so this would be one of those instances where I support a headline rewrite for clarification. The iPhone connection is incidental and I expected something entirely different.

This was more along the lines of, "How Apple reinvented/over-engineered the animated GIF"

This was a relevant post regarding any meeting for a tight-knit team with a focused objective. Which is to say, the one undeniable benefit is uninterrupted, distraction-free communication.

That said, if you're a resource to multiple teams/projects, many meetings just seem to become a sick joke where you talk about everything and do nothing.

P.S. I'm probably just being cynical, but I dislike when I can't tell where the helpfulness stops and the PR starts in these type of posts (company with stake in topic.) No disrespect intended to the OP...

eBay's and Microsoft's new logos communicate nothing about the company/brand.

I appreciate clean, minimalist design, but logos that antiseptic are like marketing that says nothing about the product or service (which admittedly works on rare occasion...)

Quote from the article:

"…one that didn’t last more than, well, probably a week if my memory serves me. And thank heavens for that! Can you imagine what eBay might have become with such a boring old logo? Still, it could have happened…(shudder)." - Jim Griffith, the first customer sales representative at eBay and the current host of eBayRadio, regarding the #3 logo (above)

Seems to apply this time around, as well.

On the contrary, this may prove to be a brilliant partnership, in a evil mad scientist way.

If you understand how a trend starts, this is a perfectly logical place to attempt broader acceptance of what is, aesthetically-speaking, a bizarre fashion accessory.

There are distinct sociological strata that fashion trends progress through on their way to the mainstream and they never start at "nerdy conferences".

Maths FTW!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

There's an illuminating analogy using Being John Malkovich somewhere here...

Browser bokeh!

"American educational system" is a misnomer, as it is currently only equipped to produce standardized test passers (in aggregate), not educated individuals.

However it has spawned a lucrative vertical market for NCLB grant specialists.

Sorry to see they're all being electromagnetically irradiated by those giant power lines.

On the upside, they'll save tons of money by not having to hardwire any of their fluorescent lamps...

Don't cry. Here's a kleenex.

TIL Many authors don't like to read.

Interesting, though not entirely surprising. I'd surmise that your usage is representative the maximum utility for most people under 40.

Did you seek them out or did you discover them incidentally while in the respective "Travel" sections?

I'd speculate that, just as with the Zagat purchase, they were singularly interested in a brand with recognition in those 40 years and older.

(Maybe since they are seeing the Google brand erode in quality and value to those under 40...)

You were far from alone in that misconception. They quite literally bank on it.

w3schools.com is a questionable resource, at best. (The most compelling thing they could teach is SEO...)

See: w3fools.com

Is there a discussion somewhere that clearly articulates the merits of the increasing complexity of CSS? I realize there's some maturation taking place, but there seems to be a giddy, almost drunken, exuberance for expanding a language beyond logical context. (e.g., Frodo carrying a BFG?) At what point does a new container become reasonable? Something such as "SOS" (Style Objects Sheet)?

I'm not confident if that made sense, but basically I'm concerned that we're (re)creating a personally oft-encountered tension where the individuals that best understand a complex syntax are the least able to create anything aesthetically-pleasing, let alone usable, from it...

I totally forgot to mention the testing in my rant...

This post is only the preface to a novel that could be titled "The Devil's Advocate's Guide to Responsive Web Design". The complicated decisions facing those tasked with developing and maintaining a responsive site are legion.

To start, determine your breakpoints so you can employ the magic of media queries...

...which are neat, but little more than a parlor trick in real world application since serving all the CSS for all possible views is an anti-pattern...

...especially under the currently accepted best practice/mantra of "Mobile First" site development, which dictates initially assuming a visitor is on a smartphone (to achieve the fastest response for the weakest use case, i.e., relatively low power device+high latency/unstable network) then dynamically scale the content/features based on client capabilities...

...requiring a solution for feature testing and/or device detection, which is performance overhead somewhere in the stack and, though evolving quickly, will remain a elusive target for the foreseeable future...

...which THEN means (just as the OP says) you aren't really developing, maintaining, and serving a single responsive site but one of 3 or more variations which, depending on who you ask, should have context appropriate content.

What's that? You have a highly-performing, flex grid-based, sugar-coated wonderland of a site? Tell me how efficient your responsive/adaptive image workflow/solution is...

TL;DR Thank you @beep for the job security. ;)

I wasn't seeing craters but mounds which, of course, is improbable for lunar geology. (Strangely, even after this revelation, my mind still processes the lighting as falling on objects the rise above the surface...)

Based on the lighting from the rest of the image, shouldn't the flag shadow be longer and falling the other direction??

This sounds like a lazy (likely contracted) security "officer". Call the company he works for and relay this story. There simply cannot be a policy that does not account for people sharing the same name.

If so, then THAT'S the story here...

Twisted implies malicious intent, which the other individuals clearly did not have.

And, whether you agree with Mr. Gemmell or the other two gentlemen, this was a misunderstanding at worst and the assertion that the "piece is really personally insulting" is laughable. (It's probable that he responded out of frustration, which is only human, but perhaps he could have used the opportunity to clarify himself.)

Valid or not, the point is undermined by the author's abrasive response to counterpoint: https://twitter.com/mattgemmell/status/227818567851180032

OK, so who's going to do the correlation with en vogue colors from the same years (fashion, paint, cars, etc.)?

Wait, so they all fall on the visible spectrum?

Where's Atreyu when you need him?! #TheGnothing

And what tells the user this?

It may not be a "development" bug, in that the error occurs due to faulty code, but it should certainly be filed as a bug and assigned to someone who addresses user experience issues.

(Which at Google would mean being thrown into a black hole... http://data.whicdn.com/images/25373715/4171_d7e8_thumb.gif)