I’ve been catching up on the internets after a long roadtrip over Christmas.
Two images from the ever-excellent infosthetics.com made me think that the best interaction and information design is stuff that can be glanced-at:
or pored-over:
but unfortunately, most commercial interaction design falls between these two stools, in the ‘don’t make me think’ category.
I’d like to create services that scamper between beautiful extremes in 2008…
Petafloptimism 
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