Category Archives: General

Bon Iver’s Breathtaking Beauty, Brought to You By the Network Age

A couple weeks ago I stumbled across a profile of Justin Vernon’s musical platform Bon Iver. It wasn’t in Pitchfork, or City Pages, or The Onion. Believe it or not, it was in fact the Wall Street Journal. My colleague Paul Isakson had turned me on to Bon Iver last year, lending me a copy …

January 5, 2009 – 10:44 am | By Jason Sack | Posted in Culture, General, music, Social Media | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

Community, Design, and Polish Sausage

If you’ve ever been to Minneapolis, you have probably heard of Nye’s Polonaise Room. It is perhaps the most famous bar in the city, home to a long tradition of live sing-a-longs, gold-flecked vinyl booths that remain somehow perpetually shiny, and most significantly the Ruth Adams Band – an outfit billed as the most dangerous …

October 9, 2008 – 8:52 am | By jasonsack | Posted in Culture, Design, General, information architecture, Inspiration, Social Media, Uncategorized, UX | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Firefox 3: Microcosmic Innovation

I have recently upgraded to the new Firefox 3 browser, and it shows off some subtle but significant user-centered design innovation. One change in particular I noticed was the default address bar interface, that takes on the microcosmic engagement of the back/forward button. Who would ever question a convention that has become so standard and …

July 5, 2008 – 2:45 pm | By Jason Sack | Posted in Design, General, innovation, interaction design, UX | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)