Pleasure and Pain

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Pleasure and Pain: photos by Whitney G. Hess

Entries Tagged as 'Design'

Twitter Redesigns Follower and Following Pages

July 1st, 2009 · Comments · Design, Twitter, User Experience

Today Twitter launched a redesign of the Following and Followers pages.
By default the Expanded view is displayed, but you can switch to the List view in the top left:

It’ll still show you 20 people per page, but without the location and last tweet sent.

On the right side of each username are two buttons: a Follow [...]

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Photo of the day: How to make the perfect egg cream

May 20th, 2009 · Comments · Design, Photography, Pleasure

This photo was taken at the famous Junior’s Restaurant in Brooklyn on my first date with Orian. God what he must have thought when I eagerly pulled out my camera to snap this pic. I’m on a date with a chick who takes photos of her food? If it weren’t for that milkshake I might [...]

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Photo of the day: Elvis had cheap gas

May 11th, 2009 · Comments · Design, Photography

Elvis’s Automobile Museum at Graceland is one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen. More than 50 vintage cars in absolutely pristine condition. If you ever find yourself in Memphis, the cars and the house are not to be missed.

Among the cars was this old Tokheim gas pump from what must have been the 1960s. [...]

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Twitter changes its email notifications

May 7th, 2009 · Comments · Design, Twitter

By default, every time someone new follows you on Twitter, you get a notification via email (which you can turn off in the Settings, as I have). Yesterday I saw a bunch of people in my stream talking about a newly designed email notification so I decided to look into it.
Here’s the old notification that [...]

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Photo of the day: Whirlpool dishwasher utensil tray

May 6th, 2009 · Comments · Design, Gadgetry, Photography, Pleasure

A few years ago I went out with a guy who made me dinner in his apartment. I’m going to refrain from saying what I thought of the food. But at the end of the meal as we brought the dishes into the kitchen, I noticed that his dishwasher had a unique design that I’d [...]

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