“This post is about those symbols we use … or rather, those other people use … to indicate common themes, concepts or ideas. Those symbols which have been used so often that they’ve become cliches. I warn against using them: or challenge designers to breathe new life into their rotting corpses. Welcome to the land of the living dead.”
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“The biggest problem, of course, is that new names seldom sound good at first. Advertising executive Ron Holland thought that Xerox was a horrible name for their client’s up-and-coming duplicating company. ‘They’ll call it Ex-Rox, the famous Japanese laxative,’ he told his partner, George Lois.”
“One of the most interesting parts of the whole enterprise for me was his articulation of some clear levels of abstraction between database work, business logic, page logic, page mark-up and the presentation layer. It’s not an enormously novel set of distinctions I guess, but the level of clarity about each area really appeals to me. It’s an architecture that really supports the rapidly iterative way of operating that I enjoy and think is core to developing great online applications.”
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“Say hello to Blinksale, the killer new web application from Firewheel Design. Blinksale makes it a breeze to create, manage, and send CSS-formatted invoices to your customers and clients.”
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