Q. What technology do you need to build the next Flickr? A. Trick question. What you need to build the next Flickr is people. George Oates, a key member of the core team that shaped the Flickr community, shares lessons that can help you grow yours.

 

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

Just because a design convention exists doesn't mean it works. Our field runneth over with design patterns, but is low on evidence of their utility. Jessica Enders drops some science on the widespread belief that zebra stripes aid the reader by guiding the eye along a table row.

 

Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S, M, L, XL. Come shop with us!

A sneaky peek at Director Guy Ritchie’s two minute blockbuster for the new Nike Total 90 football boot. You can see the full version on ITV before Manchester United’s Champions League tie with Barcelona tonight. – influenced by Prodigy’s Smack my Bitch Up perchance?

great site for heavyweight legends in product design, seymour powell.

Some gorgeous images from the diary of Hedi Slimane.

I am totally digging Nylon in LA.

Also, apologies for the lack of posts!

Check back soon for 1983, v2008.