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It’s easy to see skeuomorphic design pieces as dated–most of them are because we collectively stopped doing them. Most visual designers of that time moved on to make simpler UIs and, like myself, found their playful fix through game interface design, icon design, and other places where you weren’t laughed out of the ro...
Google made gradients and shadows less of a design offense with its Material Design, and I’m seeing more and more tactility make its way into interfaces around me. Buttons have started to stand out. Whimsy has started to be a differentiating factor–not just in animation and interaction (where whimsy was banished to liv...
Project requests like the Opus One are a blip on the radar of this type of thinking. We are coming out of a period in interface design where “design for design’s sake” has been ridiculed for years and we’re now starting to see clients ask for some of that fun back. If only as a differentiating factor. But maybe an even...
It’s prohibition and the ban has been lifted on fun.
Don’t get too caught up in my specific rendering of that calendar. Like any design, it would be all too easy to find fault with one example. The comeback of fun in interface design is not predicated on you liking one particular solution–that would be missing the point. And sure, many of us are just being nostalgic. Tha...
Yet still, I have this feeling that things are shifting. I am not advocating a full comeback of the linen or the stitched leather-wrapped Find Your Friends or the green felt-embellished Gamecenter.
I am not saying we should go back in time.
What I am saying, and what I have always said, is that design can be anything we want it to be. We should strive to make fun and memorable experiences that are appropriate to the context, but not arbitrarily restricted.
There’s a great deal of sameness in design these days, and I think we can challenge that if we’re willing to let go of some of the minimalist ideals and start thinking about how we can infuse our designs with fun. Start thinking about form instead of just function. Allow ourselves to embellish in the name of orchestrat...
If you’re a client, ask your designer to veer off the path of minimalism. If you’re a designer, don’t be afraid to use whatever tool you feel is appropriate in giving the experience you want the user to have.
Let’s throw off the shackles of minimalism and make UI fun again.
Michael Flarup is a Danish designer, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker. He runs entertainment development studio Northplay, Pixelresort, and design resource platform Apply Pixels.
PriceSpotter is Curbed's asking price guessing game. We provide you with some details and pictures from an apartment listing, and you take a crack at the price in the comments. Wednesday reveal. And hey, cheaters never win, and winners never cheat!
Criticizing Americans’ consumer habits has become an intellectual cliché, a pastime for professors and AdBusters magazine.
Going beyond negative commentary on “corporate deathmarts” and understanding why we meet our material needs the way we do is constantly on the minds of CEOs, product designers, marketers and even shoppers like you and me. We also think about how to improve our consumption habits.
Last week’s issue of Newsweek featured an article on the neurology behind saving and spending habits by science columnist and editor Sharon Begley.
She wrote that neuroscientists have mapped out differences between the brain activities of those who save more and those who spend more. Some notable areas include predicting consequences of actions, the sense of reward and control of memory.
“All told, the gray matter responsible for some of our most crucial (financial) decisions is finally revealing its secrets,” Begley wrote.
Training our brains to focus on future rewards, as opposed to the immediate gratification of this or that, might make saving less painful and make us happier with our purchases, Begley wrote.
Perhaps a part of the solution to the problem of wasting money and resources lies in our relationship with the products we buy.
Continuing and innovating reusing and recycling habits will help our country's economy be more stable, and it will improve our spending habits and overall satisfaction with the things we buy.
Overall, I think that if companies demanded customers do something such as return a glass milk bottle or mail in plastic wrappers or return medication bottles, that participation somehow makes us feel ownership of what we bought.
We had to put a little bit of our own time and effort into it, beyond buying it and opening its packaging, which arguably give us instant gratification or pleasure.
“Rewire the brain to find pleasure in future rewards, and you’re on the path to a future you really want,” Bagley wrote.
Mental mechanics, but why not create a value for everything you buy? It seems simpler and maybe even more enjoyable. Train yourself to not spend the money in side your wallet wastefully and help the of the planet.
Rewiring our brain might be a bit tough, but we can easily appraise the things we buy based off their importance to us.
Those that aren’t as important are where you can go ahead and save your hard-earned green and keep the planet green at the same time.
Bob Brzozowski's rare '62 Daimler sat outside in the snow and rain for 40 years before Jay Leno bought the beater and set out to restore the roadster even beyond its former glory.
One great thing about being a car guy with a TV show and a website is that I hear from lots of people who want to sell me cars. Most are Ford Granadas—those really rare ones with the fake hubcaps—but every now and then something interesting comes my way.
Take the 1962 Daimler SP250 I'm currently restoring. The original owner, a man named William Brzozowski, lived in Baltimore and never garaged the car. It sat outside in the snow and the rain for 40 years. Bob Brzozowski, William's nephew, inherited the car when his uncle died. He wanted to restore it but didn't have ...
When I was growing up in Massachusetts, everybody had a four-door Ford or Chevy. I remember going to the local bowling alley and seeing a red SP250 and thinking, what a weird-looking car. It had tiny fins, bug-eye headlights, and an oval grille that earned it the nickname the Angry Catfish. But it had a peppy little 1...
When the car first appeared in the U.S. in 1959, at the New York Auto Show, it was called the Daimler Dart. But Dodge was already using that name, so Daimler quickly swapped in the much snappier SP250. At a time when most English sports cars had drafty side curtains, the SP250 had roll-up windows. Even better, it weigh...
After buying the car, I had it shipped from upstate New York to my Big Dog Garage in Southern California, where the first thing we did was check for bugs. Here's why: When I was in high school, I had a Hudson Hornet that I let sit outside all winter. That spring, when it wouldn't start, I got under the dashboard to try...
Like I said, the car didn't run, but that was fine with me. If you have to restore the engine and wiring anyway, why pay for the fact that it's working? A running car might cost $10,000 more than something that hasn't been started in 25 years.
The good news was that the car itself was in pretty good condition. There was one little issue with the frame, where it had been backed into something, but the fiberglass body was fine. And there wasn't any rust.
Whenever you take a car apart, it's essential to photograph every piece as you go along. If you don't meticulously document a car with pictures when you start a restoration, you'll never be able to put it back together. At my garage, we shoot pictures of everything and store them in the computer. In the old days, you h...
But you don't take everything apart all at once. You just want to disassemble whatever you're working on first. The nice thing about body-on-frame cars like the SP250 is that it's easier to handle each section separately. With the exception of the hood, the trunk, and the doors, the fiberglass body comes off as one pie...
Once we start the restoration, the first thing we like to do is to get the vehicle back on four wheels. Before we start working on the engine or the transmission, we restore the chassis. Then we can roll it around the garage if we need to move it. As of this writing, we've straightened and powder-coated the frame. It's...
We've also carefully sanded, primed, and repainted the body. It was red, but we did it over in blue. Most SP250s that I've seen are either green or red, so I wanted something that really stood out. Stitch Corp., my upholsterer, has already measured the interior for new seats and carpeting. Whenever they finish installi...
We also plan to make a few improvements: bigger front disc brakes, rack-and-pinion steering, a T5 transmission, and radial tires. We can always change it back to standard, but it will drive and stop a lot better with these upgrades. We'll breathe on the engine a little, too, with higher compression, lightweight pistons...
People ask me if there's a timetable for completion. Look, a car restoration is not like some Stalin-era five-year wheat plan. When it's done, it's done. A lot depends on how long it takes us to find all the missing stuff. But in the meantime, it's a lot of fun to see a dusty, bug-ridden hulk coming back to life. And w...
Information security should be integrated throughout the technology life cycle, including the budgeting process. To help with that task, the National Institute of Standards and Technology is revising Special Publication 800-65, "Recommendations for Integrating Information Security into the Capital Planning and Investme...
A draft of SP 800-65 Revision 1 has been released for comment.
“Planning for information security is strategically important to ensure that the investment is adequately funded to satisfy information security requirements and that cost-effective security controls are in place to meet information security requirements and to protect the investment’s information assets,” the NIST gui...
Information security and capital planning have typically been handled by separate teams within agencies, but the Federal Information Security Management Act and other regulations require that the processes be integrated. Capital planning is a process for integrating strategic planning, budgeting, procurement and manage...
“With increased competition for limited federal budgets, agencies must effectively integrate their information security and capital planning processes,” the guidance states.
The document discusses how considerations such as continuous monitoring, Plans of Action and Milestones, external evaluations, new mandates, evolving threats, and system life cycle requirements can affect capital planning considerations. It also identifies frameworks agencies can use to prioritize security investments ...
Comments on the draft of SP 800-65 Revision 1 should be sent by Aug. 14 to draft800-65-comments@nist.gov with "Comments SP 800-65Rev1" in the subject line.
Trusted Identities: Single sign-on or single point of failure?
With much of the world’s focus on China’s activities in the South China Sea, its massive infrastructure investments in Central Asia and Africa, and the trade war with the US, it is easy to overlook another aspect of Beijing’s foreign policy — the Arctic.
In the simplest terms, China sees the Arctic as another sphere in which to advance its economic interests and diplomatic influence. As a non-Arctic country, China is mindful that its Arctic ambitions are naturally limited — but that has not stopped Beijing from increasing its presence there.
China’s Arctic strategy published last year offers a useful glimpse into how Beijing views its role in the region. In its English version, the 5,500-word document is littered with all the Arctic buzz phrases, such as “common interests of all countries,” “law-based governance,” “climate change,” and “sustainable develop...
The irony does not stop there.
China is more than 800 km away from the Arctic Circle at its nearest point, but that does not stop Beijing referring to itself as a “near Arctic state” — a concocted term that is absent from the lexicon of Arctic discourse. In fact, extending Beijing’s logic to other countries would mean that Kazakhstan, Belarus, Latvi...
Interestingly, for a nation that prides itself on its rich and long history, China is a relative newcomer to the Arctic. It launched its first scientific expedition there in 1999 and only joined the Arctic Council, an intergovernmental forum, as an observer in 2013.
Today, China wants to increase access and influence in the region primarily for economic reasons. The foundation of Chinese economic involvement in the Arctic is its so-called “polar silk road.” The goal of the polar silk road is to complement China’s Belt and Road Initiative — a vast trading network being constructed ...
The most notable Arctic sea lane is the northern sea route that follows the Russian coast connecting Europe and Asia. Proponents of the route argue that the shorter distances between the two continents will encourage trade and economic activity. As ice continues to melt in the summer months, more ships are able to make...
The shipping lanes are a considerable distance from search-and-rescue facilities, so safety is a major concern. When ships use the northern sea route, they often rely on support from Russia, especially in the form of icebreakers, which increases shipping costs.
Ice is not melting as fast as expected and this has had an impact on shipping. Last year only 13 million tons of goods were shipped using the route. By comparison, more than 1.1 billion tons of goods transited the Suez canal.
Considering all the risks and costs associated with using the northern sea route, it remains to be seen if using the channel is really worth it. Right now the numbers suggest it is not.
China is also getting more involved in NATO’s back yard. While Beijing has its eyes on investing in Greenland, the anchor of its influence in the Arctic is Iceland — the western terminus of the northern sea route.
Underscoring the importance that China places on its presence in Iceland, the Chinese Embassy in Reykjavik can accommodate a staff of up to 500. The US Embassy by comparison has about 70 staff. In 2013, tiny Iceland, with a population of slightly more than 330,000 people (the same as a small Chinese city), became the f...
But even with its self-professed and exaggerated role in the Arctic, Beijing does have legitimate interests in the region. After all, China is a global trading nation. It is the world’s second-largest economy and holds a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Thankfully, so far China’s motivation in the region seems to be more about economics than security. But considering the economic mess and massive debt China has left in places such as Sri Lanka and Djibouti, it is only normal to question Beijing’s aims.
Whether or not China will be a responsible and constructive actor in the region remains to be seen.
It is interestisng for the wirter to mention about Chian’s artic interest and activities. It seems the whole Western World view about China is still embedded in the the British diplomat and obserser Lord MacCartney’s view about the decadent and delining Quing Empire of China. It would be worthwhile for the world , espe...
Laura Mennell (Watchmen, The Man in the High Castle) has been cast as the female lead opposite Aidan Gillen in History’s scripted drama series Blue Book, executive produced by Oscar winner Robert Zemeckis. Maleficent helmer Robert Stromberg, is set to direct the first two episodes of the series, from A+E Studios and Co...
Created and written on spec by David O’Leary, with Sean Jablonski serving as showrunner, the 10-episode Blue Book chronicles the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book.” Gillen plays Dr. J. Allen Hynek, a brilliant astrophysi...
O’Leary co-executive produces. Jablonski executive produces alongside Zemeckis, Jack Rapke and Jackie Levine who exec produce for Compari Entertainment.
Mennell co-stars opposite Ron Livingston in the Audience Network comedy series Loudermilk, from Peter Farrelly. Blue Book is in first position for her but if Loudermilk is renewed for a second season, she could do more episodes schedule permitting. Mennell, who also is recurring on the third season of Amazon’s The Man ...
Blue Book is one of two new History scripted series that are now casting, along with The Breach: Inside the Impeachment of Bill Clinton from producer R.J. Cutler.
Ryan Waddell and Brian Allen were joined in wedlock on Saturday, Feb. 21, at the First Christian Church in Fort Myers. The nuptials were followed by a reception at the Colonial Country Club, also in Fort Myers.
Ryan is the daughter of Kirk and Kate Waddell of Pine Island and Brian is the son of Vernon and Barbara Allen of Lehigh Acres. The couple will reside in Fort Myers after honeymooning in Central America.
Both Ryan and Brian work for the Lee County Sheriff's Department.
India is likely to commission a major hydropower project in Bhutan this month, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale has said, vowing to strengthen bilateral collaboration in the energy sector.
In his address on 'India-Bhutan Relations: The Road Ahead' here, Gokhale said India is committed to harnessing the true potential for growth of cooperative ties with Bhutan, and exploring newer avenues for advancing it further.
"The Road ahead for India-Bhutan ties is one of tremendous potential and opportunities," he said at the end of the conference organised by the Indian Council of World Affairs and the Royal Institute for Governance and Strategic Studies, Bhutan, on Tuesday.
Over the years, the Indo-Bhutan mutually beneficial cooperation has been anchored in the remarkable cooperation in the energy sector, he said.
"This year, we hope to commission the flagship 720 MW Mangdechhu hydro-power project, hopefully this month itself. We are working together on a number of ongoing and planned projects, which promise to ensure that our relationship in this sector continue in the future," Gokhale said.
Noting that enhancing connectivity is a central pillar of 'Neighbourhood First' and 'Act East' policies, he said India's focus on boosting connectivity has contributed in expanding trade and economic opportunities and forging knowledge partnerships with Bhutan.
"As we look into the future, we see a positive trajectory for India-Bhutan relations, with expanded engagement in pursuit of common prosperity and happiness for our two peoples," he said.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Feb. 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Dovetail Genomics™, the industry leader in the use of proximity ligation and advanced informatics for genomic solutions, today announced it is enabling new areas of human disease research with the introduction of Dovetail Hi-C and Fix-C with Selva™ SV Detection Software...
Formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples comprise one of the most challenging yet widespread types of cancer samples worldwide. These samples experience significant degradation of DNA, making it difficult or impossible to conduct broad interrogations of clinically important large-scale structural rearrangements....
"Our goal is to enable breakthrough discoveries in human disease research by significantly expanding the view of the human genome," said Dovetail CEO Todd Dickinson. "Until today, our business has primarily been focused on providing the highest quality genome assemblies to the plant and animal communities. With this ne...
The company also announced that it is now accepting a limited number of customers into its Early Access Development Program for TAD Analysis, an application of the Dovetail Hi-C data type that enables researchers to evaluate the three-dimensional structure of the genome and genome folding.
"We are excited at the findings we have made through early access to the Dovetail FixC and Selva tools. We have validated existing findings and discovered new structural variants that we suspected but have been unable to see, using any other tool. This technology is showing great promise in allowing us to discover vari...
Additionally, Helio Costa, Ph.D., Instructor of Pathology and Biomedical Data Science and Geneticist and Assistant Lab Director in Molecular Pathology at Stanford, will discuss the new technique at AGBT 2018 on February 13, during the Cancer Concurrent Session, in a talk entitled, "Structural variation detection and in...
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