Interesting on button size, placement etc

Interaction for tiny godzillas.

On locking down iPads for taking exams - reads like a gov security lock-down document, but without all the confusing acronyms. Excellent!

Presumably this, or something like it, will replace the printed version in a few years.

On the perceived design disconnect between Apple's hardware and software: "Inside these unsentimental, rational, economic designs, Apple has delivered an increasingly sacchirine series of software releases. [...] The addiction to skeumorphism seems to say that it's a deeply held aesthetic position. My question is: why does this approach not extend to the devices themselves? Why not make a wooden case for the iMac, like those hideous Sony TVs from my childhood? Or why not a case that makes the computer look like a typewriter?"

The key things about the delivery are its pace and the surprise (the unpredictability of the content). So the generalised case of this that receiving letters is nice (when they're not bills).

Sketching/note-taking slate that positions itself between iPad and Kindle.