Monthly Archives: March 2010

all touchpads are not created equal

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: March 24, 2010
From a con­sumer per­spec­tive, what mat­ters most isn’t the per­for­mance of the touch­screen itself, but how well a touch­screen per­forms in com­bi­na­tion with its oper­at­ing sys­tem and user-interface to deliver an expe­ri­ence that is sat­is­fy­ing over­all. - labs.moto.com Here’s a video to give you an idea how dif­fer­ent devices perform. We liked these tests and [...]
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word today : cosmophobia

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: March 11, 2010
cos­mo­pho­bia n. The strong and irra­tional fear that in the near future the earth will be destroyed by some cos­mic event.
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In praise of systems and craft : professional ironing

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: March 8, 2010
I’m not exactly sure how we came across this video, but it is a gem. It’s an amaz­ing illus­tra­tion of process, work­flow, and exe­cu­tion. It’s dif­fi­cult to mea­sure and under­stand the suc­cess of many of the things we do as design­ers. The expe­ri­ence such as per­fectly ironed shirt however…
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Penguin Books demos iPad “books”

By Stella Gassaway, stellarvisions | Published: March 4, 2010
The def­i­n­i­tion of the book itself is up for grabs. We don’t know under­stand at the moment what the con­sumer is pre­pared to pay for […] We will only find answers to these ques­tions by trial and error. – John Makinson Now we begin to see who in the pub­lish­ing indus­try can be cre­ative. The [...]
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