"Adaptable, minimalist interfaces." Oh. My. God.

On the characteristic lack of usability in open source projects, and why. "The distributed, collaborative nature of open source software works for developer-level software, but works against user-level software. Imagine a motion picture produced like a large open source project. Different scenes written and directed by different people, spread across the world. Editing decisions forged by group consensus on mailing lists. The result would be unfocused, incoherent, and unenjoyable."

Interesting. "Patt can work on his colors and alignment, and hopefully please his user base with a helpful tool. Meanwhile the rest of us would be wise to work on the quality and value of our criticism."

Brilliant art preserved in digitized notebooks and gallery technology to make the experience just as good (from the folks at Behavior). To all of my friends in NYC, *please* go see. Interesting to note how the iPhone has already raised the bar.

A fine review of the trend in minimalism on the web and in technology in general since the late 90s.

Interesting ideas from Apple, patented just in case.