“What Jeff Hawkins realized is that the human skull contains an organ called a "brain," which has spent several million years learning to use tools. Therefore, if you are building a control interface, ie a tool, the prudent way to proceed is to (a) assume your users will need to learn to use your tool, (b) make it as easy as possible to learn the tool, and (c) make the tool as effective as possible once it is learned.”

“When you perform ‘bigger’ actions, Fever uses a modal dialog box to ask for confirmation, something I've always called The Ghetto Shield *because it's so lame.* ... This is another desktop UI convention that has no place on the web. Even Apple left this in the dustbin of history when it replaced system-blocking dialogs with per-window sheets with the introduction of OSX.”

as a WF customer, the new design is really nice

”Not stories, but toy moments.”

“Another friend, Ryan, eschews iTunes altogether and plays his music from a custom-built web application that streams everything in via Flash in the browser. Here's a screenshot.”

that "Seam Carving for Context-Aware Image Resizing" video from siggraph