2008 January archive at YakShaving

Archive for January, 2008

Dear GMail usability team, Please make it easier to purge mail

17Jan08

Why don’t you believe in “Deleting” an email and going to the next one? Why launch users back to the Inbox? Why can I archive and go to the next message, but not DELETE and go to the next message?

I realize it “looks” the same, but there’s some psychological neurosis some of us [...]

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ID Strategy Conference 2008

17Jan08

For regular readers who aren’t ID students, I wanted to give you a reminder and heads up that this year’s Strategy Conference is coming up in May. I am already extremely excited about the speakers coming this year.
I am working with several esteemed colleagues here at the Institute of Design in putting together a publication [...]

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Spring 2008 classes, if you were wondering.

16Jan08

Well boys and girls, it’s going to be a busy semester again here at ID, but meh, might as well be, this spring break will be all the more restful and relaxing. Maybe I’ll even skip taking an intersession and go on a two week vacation?

Cultural Human Factors
Social Human Factors
Design Analysis
Design Synthesis
Design Languages
Advanced Design [...]

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Hyperminimalism

15Jan08

flickr cred: Fib

Ok, okay. After pretty much a month long hiatus in Philadelphia, I am back to yakshaving. Well, I have always been performing the act of yak shaving, but I am back to blogging I mean. To tell the truth, I kinda missed writing for the [...]

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