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There's a great scene in Objectified about the indicator light on a MBP (or, in that case, perhaps an Air) and how it appears and disappears when needed. Viz.:
by jakewalker 16y ago
There's a great scene in Objectified about the indicator light on a MBP (or, in that case, perhaps an Air) and how it appears and disappears when needed. Viz.:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fe800C2CU#t=04m40s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0fe800C2CU#t=04m40s
- threepointone 16y agothat's one of the things I really like. It's not just the breathing timing, in fact. They could've slapped on an LED that did this behavior. But they hid it behind the body, perforated tiny holes into the body, such that when the light goes out, you can't even make out that the light exists. Beautiful.
- mark_h 16y agoCame here to post just that. The other thing I liked about that Jonathan Ives bit was how he went beyond the physical aspects and talked a lot about how much effort they went into the construction process as well. No one else in the documentary even mentioned that as far as I can recall. (Incidentally, that reminded me of this: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/smartabstractions http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/smartabstractions For example, Paul Bucheit worrying about disk access times)
- lanstein 16y agoIves -> Ive Bucheit -> Buchheit
- mark_h 16y agoOops, sorry :S Both looked wrong while I was typing them too, and I never checked... I should never rush comments.
- andreyf 16y agoPaul Buchheit worrying about disk access times It baffles me how anyone can program a server without worrying about disk access times, much less a service like Gmail. Similarly, what do designers spend all of their time doing if they aren't worrying about the construction process? Nobody cares how pretty your design is if you can't mass-produce it at low cost.
- lovskogen 16y ago"Nobody cares how pretty your design is if you can't mass-produce it at low cost." Really?
- moondowner 16y ago+1, Didn't knew about this documentary, definitely going to order it.
- jakewalker 16y agoThe guy who made it, Gary Hustwit, also made one called Helvetica, which is very very good, and is making a third (and final in the "series") called Urbanized, about urban design: http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/blog/the-next-film-urbanized/ http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/blog/the-next-film-urbanized/ Also, Objectified is on Netflix streaming now, I believe.
- steveklabnik 16y agoAs is Helvetica.
- YooLi 16y agoIt's on Netflix instant streaming if you are a member.
- werrett 16y agoYou amight be lucky enough to be near one of the public screenings of Objectified. A lot of them are free. http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/screenings/ http://www.objectifiedfilm.com/screenings/ I'm planning on heading to the one @ the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on October 1.
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- elblanco 16y agoThere's probably a really powerful argument how they don't even need the sleep light since Macs have the sleep thing so nailed down that it just works.