all the good things

Everywhere in the world, amazing and wonderful things continue to unfold.

I appreciate the sublime
and things that are remarkable, smart, inventive or just beautiful. I also like to keep track of process and things that inspire. I also have a running set of helpful resources for UX design.

This site will give you a constant feed of amazing things in fields as varied as interaction design, web design, product design, business innovation, fine art, the humanities, and science.

My name's Jaireh. By day, I'm a UX designer for a big telecom company. I have also been: a designer of many things like this and this. Welcome to my internet Wunderkammer.

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Oct
2nd

Fri

Historically the field of architecture has been dominated by 2 opposing extremes. On one side an avant-garde full of crazy ideas. Originating from philosophy, mysticism or a fascination of the formal potential of computer visualizations they are often so detached from reality that they fail to become something other than eccentric curiosities. On the other side there are well organized corporate consultants that build predictable and boring boxes of high standard. Architecture seems to be entrenched in two equally unfertile fronts: Either naively utopian or petrifying pragmatic. We believe that there is a third way wedged in the no mans land between the diametrical opposites. Or in the small but very fertile overlap between the two. A pragmatic utopian architecture that takes on the creation of socially, economically and environmentally perfect places as a practical objective.

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Bjarke Ingels ted talk on his architectural design process.

1) design is an evolution of good ideas that stick

2) remix ideas that are dropped for future use

3) architectural movements do not need to be counter to current avant garde movements

4) story telling is important to all architectural problems

5) sustainable does not have to be = guilt/suffering/protestant ethic. it can be celebratory and fun

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Sep
27th

Sun

Much more important than working hard is knowing how to find the right thing to work on. Paying attention to what is going on in the world. Seeing patterns. Seeing things as they are rather than how you want them to be. Being able to read what people want. Putting yourself in the right place where information is flowing freely and interesting new juxtapositions can be seen. But you can save yourself a lot of time by working on the right thing. Working hard, even, if that’s what you like to do.

— Caterina Fake on why working hard is overrated

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Sep
20th

Sun

But seen from another angle, craigslist is one of the strangest monopolies in history, where customers are locked in by fees set at zero and where the ambiance of neglect is not a way to extract more profit but the expression of a worldview.

The axioms of this worldview are easy to state. “People are good and trustworthy and generally just concerned with getting through the day,” Newmark says. If most people are good and their needs are simple, all you have to do to serve them well is build a minimal infrastructure allowing them to get together and work things out for themselves. Any additional features are almost certainly superfluous and could even be damaging.

Newmark has been working hard to extend the influence of his worldview. His public pronouncements have the delighted yet apologetic tone of a man who has stumbled on a secret hiding in plain sight and who finds it embarrassingly necessary to point out something that should long have been obvious. He seems to have discovered a new way to run a business. He suspects that it may be the right way to run the world.

— Gary Wolf on Craigslist

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Jul
22nd

Wed

aardvark’s chat bot router has taken a hint from common IM away message practice (of using them as conversation baits). brilliant.

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Jul
5th

Sun

Traditionally, newspaper publishing was a one-way street: Reporters reported, editors edited, and readers read. Now the Web is changing that equation: the lines between writing, reading and editing are all starting to blur. “Readers” now edit the news for themselves using RSS readers and collaborative filtering tools; while many reporters now engage in direct, unflitered discussions with all kinds of people via Twitter, Facebook et al.

— Alex Wright, UX Lead for Nytimes.com

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Jun
25th

Thu

what a clever twitter mashup!

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Jun
11th

Thu

A clever use of facebook photos function. Some girls on facebook that I know buy and sell high end luxury bags (in this case a Channel bag). They take a photo of the planned purchased product and then tag all their friends to see it. The photo comments then drum up interest in the product and more people want to purchase it. Really brilliant use of the tagging feature

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Jun
2nd

Tue

great archive of beautiful infographics from good magazine

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May
15th

Fri

An interesting data visualization of current events for the year

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