http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless A weblog of restraint Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:00:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Facebook, by Adrian Tomine http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/tomines-facebook The Goodness 500 has a premise we at DLB can agree with: help consumers find the most socially responsible companies in an aesthetically pleasing way. However, looking at the companies in their rankings, I question their definition of good. There are quite a few companies I wouldn't think to see ... http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/the-goodness-500 The following map shows the flow of carbon emissions in traded goods, and which countries are major exporters and importers of carbon emissions.   As GOOD reports: “When someone in the States buys shoes that were made in China, the carbon emitted in their production gets added to China's tally, despite the ... http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/outsourced-carbon-emissions-map Cheeseburger http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/lunchbox 1. Google is Making me Stupid I’m not thinking the way I used to think. I can feel it most strongly when I’m reading. Immersing myself in a book or a lengthy article used to be easy. My mind would get caught up in the narrative or the turns of the ... http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/two-monday-worries-march-8-2010 Grasshopper, the error you seek is yourself! http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/the-error-you-seek-is-yourself 1. Designing a New Hot Dog Image from Fast Company. A few weeks ago, the American Academy of Pediatrics declared hot dogs a potential choking hazard for young children. In this Fast Company piece, Ravi Sawhney of RKS set out to redesign hot dogs to be safe (and fun!), settling on the ... http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/four-design-links-march-4-2010 He describes the downsides of having a large online audience, where social networking breaks down. The key insights: large networks can hinder conversation and stifle the exchange of ideas, because socializing doesn't actually scale. "After all, the world’s bravest and most important ideas are often forged away from the spotlight ... http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/the-value-of-obscurity This series of images was created by taking all of the streets in a given city and centering them on the canvas horizontally and vertically. Note the rigidness of the Chicago grid in #2. New York City Chicago Los Angeles (not to scale with the others) http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/streets-centered Paddy Donnelly has a nice write up about the lingering dogma of the fold. His point, with enough room left in 120 characters for a shortened URL, is this: The virtues of keeping relevant content above the fold are no longer. This is probably something we've all realized, but it's nice ... http://www.designlessbetter.com/blogless/posts/the-fold