Observations, process, and writing from an interaction designer living and working in San Francisco.
Companies that manage their own servers and data centers often only use 10 to 20 percent of their available computing cycles, according to general industry estimates. The rest of those cycles, and the energy required to generate them, go to waste.
What happens when you say “are attached” in an email in gmail.
The ‘Satellite’ view tab acts a window over the ‘Map’ view, giving users a preview as they pan around.
Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Ops Area and Computer Room,1967 - 1981
The Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station near Canberra, Australia, were used to support the NASA Appallow and Skylab missions. In 1981, the 26 meter antenna was relocated to Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex. The original Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station has since been leveled.
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Google today announced a major expansion of its data center campus in Lenoir, North Carolina, saying it will spend $600 million to build new server farms and populate them with IT equipment. The search giant also said it will use its purchasing power to jump-start a renewable energy program for Duke Energy, the utility that provides electricity to the Lenoir facility.
Read more how Google is positioning itself as a major buyer and driver of renewable energy pricing. Perhaps the IT industry should take note and think about how the exponential growth of producing and consuming digital content can ignite the clean energy industry.
Recently I’ve been sketching some UI concepts for an iPhone app in my Field Notes notebook. I typically start by drawing a rectangle that crudely approximates the real life size of an iPhone screen, but I figured there might be a better solution that keeps the spirit of the quick and dirty UI…
A 2011 video from Microsoft gives a high level overview of their various data center designs, as well as a description of their physical security measures surrounding each facility. Still think Sneakers can get in.
Google releasing Android for free was the beginning of the commodification of the operating system.
True, Android was free, but it was not without cost. Running Google-approved Android gave Google visibility to your users’ data and positioned Google’s services as the canonical option. You might…
Super Bowl commercials are over, been over, jumped the shark years ago. Each year, I wait for the advertising entertainment to hit me in between whistles and time outs, and each year, maybe one commercial is decent.
It’s like waiting to laugh while watching a bad episode of SNL. My face hurts.
April Fool’s Day, on the other hand, has become a playground for Google, Twitter, YouTube, and the like to produce product videos and faux landing pages, taking viewers for a ride with a dose of self-deprecating humor.
So here’s to April Fool’s Day pranks, reminding us once a year to not take ourselves and the things we consume too seriously.
Iron, wool, coal, cotton, asphalt. They don’t make em like they used to.
the journey, the exploration, the process is what really matters
— http://davidtylerson.tumblr.com/post/46306646781/why-i-design
Just finished stocking my virtual bookshelf with some of my favorite reads from the last 15 years. I’ll be putting books on the shelf as I finish them from here on out.
