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The last computer password
Do you know what the first computer password was? Wired asked that question in 2012. They never actually answered it, and of course, the answer is not very important. But the story behind the invention of the computer password is still instructive. According to the Wired story, the first well known example for using passwords…
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Shaun Andrews
Just What I Needed
Intuition is a weird thing. Its stuff you know, but don’t know you know. Ya know? I often rely on intuition in my work here as a designer. Past experience plays a lot into this type of work. Building from that intuition takes hours of studying, experimenting, and… playing. This playtime allows you to deeply…
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Jeffikus
African Design
Africa! A continent of mystery, magic, and a mix of cultures and people so diverse that very few outside of it manage to understand, let alone describe it. I was born and live at the southern most part of Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, and I see many different cultures on a daily basis –…
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Danny Dudzic
The Sound of Trust
Since the 1930s, many have tried to design a solid-body electric guitar. It was Leo Fender in 1950 and his iconic Telecaster that revolutionized the guitar manufacturing industry and propelled popular music into a completely new era. Even though today, it is more than half a century old and hundreds of more sophisticated designs have…
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Thomas Bishop
It’s Never Too Late to Listen
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. – Abraham Lincoln I’ve learned a lot of lessons as a designer/human over the years. More than anything, I’ve learned by making mistakes. One of the most important lessons I’ve learned along the way is that it’s…
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David Levin
This simple trick will change the way you design products
Ready? Here goes: Be curious! Ask your customers questions. Observe their behavior. Welcome and seek out their differences. It’s the first principle of our fledgling design language: “Start from curiosity. Welcome and seek out difference.” What? You want your money back? The title did say it was simple. I’m sorry if you were expecting something…
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Ola Bodera
Reaching Tomorrow
Stories help shape reality. It helps paint the past, present, and future. Through stories we can prompt emotions, experiences, and vision. Stories are human. A great example of how stories can influence, and shape perception can be found in the animated movie “The Croods”. During two scenes in the movie, we get a glimpse at…
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Laurel Fulford
Unexpected uses
One of the first themes I launched on WordPress.com was Toujours. It was designed as a wedding theme, and included features like a Guestbook template, a slideshow, and special styles to highlight the three most recent posts. Like with all of our themes, the demo was built to look realistic, and match the kind of…
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Courtney Burton Doker
You don’t have to be a genius to think intuitively
From Albert Einstein to Steve Jobs, countless thinkers, artists, and inventors have acknowledged that intuition played a large role in their success. Intuition, for the purpose of this conversation, is defined as a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than from conscious reasoning. For a long time I have fought…
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Desiree Zamora Garcia
When design is not about you
If I were to tell you that people couldn’t wait to stop using your product, how would you react? We may assume that there is something fundamentally broken with the product, a problem which must be fixed, because a well-designed product is one that people want to use. A good designer would work through that…
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