CircleCount helps you better understand Google+

2013-03-19 20:02:10 (3 comments, 14 reshares, 33 +1s)

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/learning-to-see/

Learning to design is a never ending adventure, because learning to see, is, just like learning to speak, a wonderful voyage that never ends. A love declaration to my profession.

2013-01-03 15:01:35 (1 comments, 2 reshares, 9 +1s)

Why do we start the New Year again and again with a boring guilt trip, when we know that it won't help anyone? What if the resolution itself is the reason why we fail? We have the funny trait that we do what we shouldn’t do with more motivation, pleasure and esprit than what we should.

How about trying to be a bad bad boy, bad bad girl, bad bad man, bad bad woman, a very very bad bad person? Will that get us a better start? 

Obviously, we need to find good reasons to be bad. That is logically and rhetorically not as straightforward as finding good reasons to be good. So I hope that you’ll forgive me some logical and rhetorical tricks in the following five minutes of diabolical advocacy of the ultimate evil: a praise of the seven deadly sins.

http://www.netmagazine.com/features/seven-new-years-resolutions-designers-2013

2012-11-27 16:56:00 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 15 +1s)

We made a little online handbook for iA Writer: http://www.iawriter.com/writer-for-mac-guide.html

2012-10-30 10:34:45 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Free update available for iA Writer on iPhone and iPad https://t.co/iyYpLGF1 (keyboard extension bug fix, HTML-preview, and new Dropbox API)

2012-10-26 14:42:44 (0 comments, 4 reshares, 5 +1s)

Looking for Cocoa developer for iAWriter in Tokyo or Zurich: Mail to moritz [at] informationarchitects.jp

2012-09-05 20:56:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Writers and their Type Writers:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=268616996583626&set=a.268610823250910.52774.267524813359511&type=1&theater

2012-07-24 22:03:52 (7 comments, 12 reshares, 49 +1s)

Interview with yours truly:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/24/3177332/ia-oliver-reichenstein-writer-interview-good-design-is-invisible

2012-07-23 19:45:54 (1 comments, 4 reshares, 17 +1s)

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/ia-writer-update-mac-iphone-ipad/

2012-07-19 18:20:07 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

iA Writer for iPhone and iPad (now with drag'n'drop iCloud folders) is ready for download as well... http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer/id392502056?mt=8 

2012-07-19 17:19:18 (3 comments, 4 reshares, 25 +1s)

iA Writer for Mac 1.3 (2x faster, with custom Window and folders on Mountain Lion) is ready for download:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer/id439623248?mt=12

2012-06-14 13:54:35 (4 comments, 3 reshares, 9 +1s)

How do you deal with erroneous tweets? Not any erroneous tweets, your erroneous tweets. The tweets that you misspelled or, worse, that contain information you later discover is false, or a late night knee-jerk response you regret in the morning. What do you do when the retweets start and people correct you, and then people react to the reactions even though you deleted it right away?

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/twitterror/

2012-06-04 16:24:01 (6 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

I'm already getting annoyed with G+ again, as I just realized that some people (mobile Twitter for example) will see a G+ login page when I link to a discussion here. Or is that problem solved now?

2012-06-04 15:20:08 (17 comments, 14 reshares, 22 +1s)

After a couple of days reading through literally hundreds of (mostly positive) reactions I have even less doubts than before—Social Media buttons are useless:

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/sweep-the-sleaze/

What I didn't make clear enough in the follow up: Even if 20% of the tweeters used the buttons (it's actually more around 15%), how many of the total of all readers use them? 1% 2%? How much additional traffic do these bring? 1% 2%?

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/sweep-the-sleaze-reactions/

2012-06-01 13:00:27 (3 comments, 18 reshares, 46 +1s)

New iA Blog post: "Responsive Typography: The Basics"

http://informationarchitects.net/blog/responsive-typography-the-basics/

2012-03-11 14:06:34 (5 comments, 6 reshares, 20 +1s)

iPhone Market Size vs iPad Market Size

The sales numbers for iA Writer for iPhone start streaming in. Yesterday the we had biggest day since we first launched the iPad app. By far. As you can see from the curve, all our sales numbers have been dwarfed by the iPhone launch. What do the new numbers tell us?

Comparing Launch Day Data: Wow
Since it is a universal app, it is hard to say exactly, but, as far as I can see looking at the changes in the app store ranking, we didn't sell substantially more apps through the iPad channel. The resulting delta between the old curve and the latest spike thus is all iPhone apps.

Now, sure, a lot of active iPad and Mac users (over 60% of the 200,000 users that downloaded the iPad app so far keep using it regularly) have been waiting for the iPhone app. It is too early to tell for certain.

Still, if... more »

2012-03-11 12:13:19 (3 comments, 22 reshares, 63 +1s)

Can an agency have its own products? Can you do products and serve clients?

In 2009, +Craig Mod and me pitched a project to Paul Graham. He had doubts that agencies could pull off the jump from service to product. 37signals managed to pull it off, he said, but they are the exception to the rule. I thought: Why jump? Why not both? Do agencies not have a competitive advantage over regular startups?

There is this wide spread notion that, for some reason, an agency cannot launch successful products or that a startup cannot have service clients at the same time as they develop their own apps. I believe that assumption to be, at least, antiquated. Here is why...

The argument is usually that you don’t have enough focus on either if you do both your own products and client work. I always found that to be a plausible argument for startups (since they have no knowledgem... more »

2012-03-08 23:16:57 (15 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

iA Writer for iPhone is available now: http://iAWriter.com/ Curious to hear what you think.

2012-02-14 12:04:09 (0 comments, 10 reshares, 24 +1s)

How Samurais do meetings:

"You will be tripped up by people when your resolution is lax. Moreover, if at a meeting you are distracted while another person is speaking, by your carelessness you may think that he is of your opinion and you will follow along saying, “Of course, of course,” even though he is saying something that is contrary to your own feelings, and others will think that you are in agreement with him. Because of this, you should never be distracted even for an instant when meeting with others."
Hagakure, The Way of the Samurai

2012-02-02 13:18:07 (1 comments, 6 reshares, 13 +1s)

Buon anno!
2012 Anno della coesistenza

2012-01-02 20:24:22 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Most informed article on the history and science of radiation risks I've read since the Yablokov paper: http://japanfocus.org/-Gayle-Greene/3672

2011-12-20 14:30:08 (4 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

New iA Writer Video on http://www.iawriter.com/

2011-12-11 15:58:48 (13 comments, 2 reshares, 29 +1s)

Who is the photographer of this amazing Beatles picture? Where can I find a high res version for my desktop? It was shot at a concert, on June 20th, 1965, in Paris:

http://www.heyokay.com/images/Top%20Down%20Beatles.jpg

2011-12-09 15:05:05 (12 comments, 23 reshares, 59 +1s)

About the New New Twitter

John Gruber is trashing the new Twitter: http://daringfireball.net/2011/12/new_twitter

Here is what I think: I used it for a day now and I see some clear of improvements in the information design (on the Web, for instance: no more multiple scrollable regions inside the page, a clearer left to right orientation, less navigational blocks), and a couple of dubious moves, too (an uneconomic amount of lines, boxes and boxes in boxes, f.ex.). But these are details, compared to a more serious issue that Gruber points out when comparing the new mobile app to Tweetie:


"Tweetie presented three main things:

1. The main timeline, showing the tweets of those people you follow.
2. Replies/mentions, showing tweets where you are mentioned or addressed.
3. Direct messages, showing private messages in a IM-style threaded... more »

2011-12-07 00:18:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

The reality of radiation clean up attempts: http://t.co/BoWb4qon

2011-12-06 16:43:28 (4 comments, 2 reshares, 12 +1s)

Typical Japanese conversation (free translation):

A explains something...
B: "You kidding me?"
A: "Nope."
B: "Nasty."

2011-12-06 09:26:24 (2 comments, 3 reshares, 24 +1s)

If, as an interaction designer, you cannot show both your work (action) and its effect (reaction), your opinion is not directly relevant.

2011-12-06 07:48:53 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Cesium in Meiji powdered milk baby formula. 400,000 cans retracted. 30.8 Bq/kg. Legal limit: 200Bq. My limit: 0 Cesium. http://t.co/kmF25dDV

2011-12-05 20:20:18 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

<3!

+Oliver Reichenstein on lowercase letter:
https://twitter.com/#!/iA/status/143718033037332482

2011-12-05 13:59:57 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Hey iOS devs! Have you succeeded printing a custom font via Airprint over iOS? Having trouble getting Nitti Light on paper... After one year of Nitti, Courier just looks nasty.

2011-12-05 13:51:35 (7 comments, 19 reshares, 34 +1s)

How to to climb in the App Store, Part II

Here is a run down on the stats, confirming my earlier suspicion that lowering the price doesn't help.

After the Lion upgrade that took so long because custom windows and custom text fields are so tough on Lion, sales fell in a typical app cycle curve. After lowering the price, the curve adjusted to the main curve within 4 days. In other words: Selling double the apps at half price. Just like I said in Part I (https://plus.google.com/115711522874757126523/posts/PoPTYdVFYyt).

Lately, with the iCloud, update sales exploded. The chart doesn't incorporate yesterday's and today's sales (massive jump over the weekend again).

Repeating, what I said before: To increase sales: Don't imitate. You might get some crumbs from some table but ultimately, you'll help the original by doing so. Innovate.... more »