Pillboxie: Pill Popping User Interface
Pillboxie is an app that helps you remember to take your medications. Add your pills, describing their shape and colour, and then schedule reminders throughout the day and further by days of the week. The user interface for scheduling your pills is not just cute, it’s functional. Just drag your pills into ‘pill boxes’ representing the hour. You can drag more than one pill, drag out pills; it’s crazy nice. Local notifications remind you when you need to pop one.
Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
Shortchanging Your Business with User-Hostile Platforms
After yet another Campfire outage this week (albeit a brief one), I went looking for an alternative group chat solution for our distributed team at BankSimple. Griping on Twitter led to a number of suggestions, and we gave the most frequently occurring suggestion a try.
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“The Special Relationship”
A fun piece by Andy Ihnatko on the good and bad of Apple’s iterative approach to software features:
I recently read something about Walt Disney that seemed very familiar. A man who worked with him said (I’m paraphrasing) Walt wanted to make sure that if you came to Disney World, you would have a fantastic time. And he succeeded. But he also wanted to make sure that you wouldn’t even have the option of having a bad time.
Wild Watchtower: Defensible Forest Studio & Library Space
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New York normally conjures images of modern materials and defensible spaces, but in urban contexts – skyscrapers in the city, not retreat cubes in the forested mountains found upstate.
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