Designer Duds

Mills Baker, writing on the Mokriya blog:

Hoping that users “worry more” about the quality of their photos seems like the wrong attitude to have. It’s worth noting that everyone I know who’s happiest with Facebook uploads whatever they want, including ugly, low-resolution photos, garbage meme-images, random, hyper-compressed videos, and the rest of the junk that they find interesting. It all looks insane in Paper. Wanting users to spring for DSLRs and learn how to shoot their kale salad with a shallow depth of field so that the very lovely new app you’ve built isn’t ruined by their tastelessness is exactly backwards.

On the topic that design needs to be more than just pretty in order to actually be good design.

David Letterman And Drummers

Dave Shumka, writing for CBC Music:

Ever since I made this video of David Letterman talking to drummers, I've wondered if he's actually seen it. I recently asked one of his writers, Bill Scheft, on Twitter. According to Scheft, not only has Letterman watched it, but "he loved it as he loved few things." I realize that it just seems like I'm bragging on the internet, but that's about the greatest thing I've ever heard.

Go check out his post and watch all the videos embedded.