Two observations:
Wouldn’t that be a bitch to clean?
and, is a product still improved if it is more efficient but less user friendly?
Yes it is. Early computers were super improved over the abacus. But, that improvement was only seen by years more of improvements.
See how borders change on Google Maps depending on where you view them
Bald guy reminded us writing was art. He reminded us that English is a rich and flexible language, and sifting something new out of it is half the fun. He reminded us that the structure of a sentence can be funny or sad. Most of all, he reminded us that writing is about communication. Writing is the most explicit art form; you can communicate enormously complex ideas or explore the oddest and most trivial quirks of the human experience.
YEP.
View Larger I really liked visiting this place back when I was in San Francisco. I’m looking forward to visiting it again soon! Super soon, I hope.
a tea calendar. made of tea. tea ground, pressed into wafers, sliced into cards, printed, and assembled into a box.
my first thought: you’re going to buy this to have year-old tea?
they spend the first part of the video showing a rigorous cupping experience, with piles of tea greens showily heaped behind rows and rows of little neat cups. so, tea matters, taste matters, and fresh tea matters, based on that little shot.
but, then the product is a calendar, something which sits on a table, in public view, open, for a year. what? those things are death to the flavor of something like tea!
i guess it looks nice, though, and the action is novel: take one down and drink your day.
this feels like one of those advertisements that isn’t meant to be actually developed for everyone: just developed for one person to experience, and edited for everyone to see on youtube.
this might be funnier and more useful if it was for birth control, no?
i don’t think i’ve ever seen a record player type interface for a sequencer!
my critiquey thoughts were about the usability of the magnets (you have to stop everything to rearrange the composition?) and the knobs.
but, unlabelled knobs look better. and, if it’s a one-off, and a work-in-progress, and a fluid interface, and the engineer is the operator, then pinning things down with labels is probably a bad idea. no labels + white chassis is pretty classy.
the magnets are always a magical addition to an interface. the way magnets work is kind of special, so having them included in a tangible device ups the Magic Quotient.
“magic.” “magnet.” not a coincidence.
nice abstract way of portraying something pretty intangible. or, very intangible.
if only every economics lesson were as visual and simplified. the ideas behind economics are pretty simple. (full of gotchas, but pretty simple.) the ideas behind economics are usually drawn with gobbledygook words, though. credit default swaps? collateralized debt obligations? contango and backwardation?
no. just draw some little glowy lines bouncing between big and little abstract actors and you get the gist.
