Jay Robinson

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  • Is there a way to engage in this kind of behavior and not have it be like a rat pushing a button for a fix? Is there such a thing as calm ambient awareness that’s not overly tied up in your ego? Chris Muscarella on mobile phone notifications.

  • Most online experiences are made, like fast food, to be cheap, easy, and addictive: appealing to our hunger for connection but rarely serving up nourishment. Shrink-wrapped junk food experiences are handed to us for free by social media companies, and we swallow them up eagerly, like kids given buckets of candy with ads on all…

  • The realtime web has become a habit. It’s a twitch. I do it without thinking. More importantly, when I succumb to the reflex of checking it every few minutes or seconds, I do so at the expense of thinking. When is the last time you stood in line at a bank without checking your iPhone?…

  • A mobile interface is an interface for a moment. The goal isn’t deep consideration of a thing. The goal is instant assessment of, well, everything. When I pull my phone out of my pocket, I want to answer a fairly impossible question: “How has everything I care about in the online universe changed since I…

  • Deal with it.

  • It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country…

  • “Pyramid Song” by Radiohead This was the first Radiohead music video I ever saw. I remember it well; I was transfixed.

  • Spotify is a beautiful social music app unavailable to most US residents. The entire Spotify brand, along with the sleek, dark user interface of the Mac app, was designed by Rasmus Andersson, who recounts the experience in long form on his blog.

  • Craig Mod: These guys just glide on paper. Combined with my new fav the Wide C1, and my other 20-ish Neutral Grays, it makes sketching out UI really fast and a total pleasure. Copics already became the de facto quick sketching tool here at Flipboard and this new discovery will further contribute to the complete…

  • The best attitude to have when trying to solve problems is that everything is negotiable. Scott Berkun, Problem Solving & Kobayashi Maru This is something I’ve always applied, naturally. I don’t think anyone taught I to me, it just works.

  • Cartoons & Forked Reality

    Cartoons & Forked RealityAn intriguing back and forth between Frank Chimero and David Cole.

  • ckck: Woody Allen at the Met. New York City, 1963. Photograph by Ruth Orkin.

  • Cartoons & Forked Reality

    Cartoons & Forked RealityAn intriguing back and forth between Frank Chimero and David Cole.

  • Spotify is a beautiful social music app unavailable to most US residents. The entire Spotify brand, along with the sleek, dark user interface of the Mac app, was designed by Rasmus Andersson, who recounts the experience in long form on his blog.

  • Woody Allen at the Met. New York City, 1963. Photograph by Ruth Orkin. Via ckck.