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Design, Rock & Roll, Old Motorcycles, Columbus, Ohio

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Living Room Kit

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A Little Work Drumming

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Yep #vote #ohio #lesserevils

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Work

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Stop

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Set List, Cheat Sheet

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Two-Coffee Saturday

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Living Life on the Edge

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400 West Rich

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Before The Misfits and even before Alice Cooper, there was Screaming Lord Sutch.

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(via Good design isn’t decoration. Good design is problem solving. | inspireUX)

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The main golden calf in design is simplicity. Speaking as someone who looks at, makes, and uses design each and every day, I am tired of simple things. Simple things are weak, they are limited, they are boring. What I truly want is clarity. Give me clear and evident things over simple things. Make me things that presume and honor my intelligence.

Frank Chimero, Only Openings.

I post this because I agree with it. It is increasingly obvious that simplicity continues to be idolized in light of all evidence. Cars are more complicated, phones are more complicated, websites are more complicated, devices are more complicated. But the UIs have been refined and user patterns have been standardized: you only have to learn things once, rather than re-learning for every device.

We should be taking advantage of this standardization rather than re-creating functionality with a different name, or omitting it entirely in the name of simplicity.

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+1 to the quote and the commentary.

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(via Why Is New Urbanism So Gosh Darn Creepy?) New Urbanism is like the uncanny valley for architecture. Here's hoping Lean Urbanism fares better.

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Last Friday's Playlist

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My only regret is I didn't stay to thank @draplin for turning me on to Red Fang.

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The New York Post Asks The Hard Questions