This week we talk about Andy’s new watch, the problem with magazines, limitations, and Minecraft.

Magazines have a bundling problem

Minecraft Closed Map Experiment Hoax

The Cost of a Logo

Dave McClure’s Tweet about the Next Big Thing in Publishing

Obama doing an AMA

The Dangers of 3D Printing

FastCo on the Unsolicited American Airlines Redesign

The Art Of The Passive-Aggressive Redesign

When does design matter?

The best interface is no interface

This week we talk about a redesign proposal for Wikipedia, Beck’s sheet music album, making rates public, and Square’s deal with Starbucks.

Wikipedia Redefined

Wikiweb App

Quora Feedback on Wikipedia Redefined

Beck to release album as sheet music

Making your rates public

Starbucks Adopts Square

On this special epsiode, we talk to Whitney Erin Boesel, about her article Race, Class, App.net: The Beginning of ‘White Flight’ from Facebook & Twitter?, and the implications of App.net.

This week we discussed file systems, putting your ideas into the world, simplicity vs. complexity, and destroying your work for the sake of greatness.

Mountain Lion’s New File System

What’s with the anti-directory movement?

Postbox gives up on Mac Store

Apple’s Genius Ads

dot Mail app

dot Mail post

Imagine the most beautiful scene ever…

Make your users do the work

We’re going to be releasing a few episodes very quickly in order to catch up to real time. We had been recording a few weeks in advance, but we’re looking to be more timely, so our backlog is being released right now. The next few episodes will be much more current.

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Sparrow Acquisition

Apple patents disappearing vertical scroll indicator

Jack Daniels Wrote What Has To Be The Nicest Cease-And-Desist Order Of All Time

Why I prefer a featureless app

The Cost of Free Doughnuts

This week we discussed corporate transparency, local retail and economic models.

Links Mentioned this Episode:

Andy Launches Wikiweb

McDonald’s Canada: more local, less mystery

Paid Paid Vacation

Amazon same-day delivery to destroy local retail?

Dalton Caldwell’s Bold Proposal

App.net’s Kickstarter-like page

Penny Arcade Kickstart to go Ad Free

This week we discussed public reactions to design, critique in the modern day, and endless amounts of creative content on the internet.

Links Mentioned this Episode:

Faux Microsoft Rebrand

London’s Shard Opens

The Future of the New York Public Library

Jack Cheng’s Novel on Kickstarter

If you have some thoughtful feedback, leave a comment here, email us (mail at onthegrid dot co), or even call us if want us to possibly play your comments on the show: (973) ON-GRID-2

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We’re posting our pilot episode of On the Grid! We’ve been recording the show for a few weeks now, we’ve done tests that will probably never see the light of day, and we’re finally ready to launch episode one.

We plan on using the show to discuss design through recent events and news. Hopefully you’ll enjoy a mix of design conversation, joking side comments, and discussion of the issues that affect us as designers.

Below are some links to articles and topics discussed:

Google Glasses

Books that Read You

Someone is Coming to Eat You

Apple supporting Podcasts responsible for Twitter?

Apple’s new Podcast App

Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles of Good Design

Skeuomorphism

Functional Fonts: Symbolset

Rdio redesign

Dribbble is Not a Platform for Critique

Studio 360 Redesigns: Know Canada

We’re very excited to start this new podcast, and we know it will be may a bit of a process to find our voice, so we can appreciate a good to critique. If you have some thoughtful feedback, leave a comment here, email us (mail at onthegrid dot co), or even call us if want us to possibly play your comments on the show: (973) ON-GRID-2

If you want to share a topic, tweet a link with the hashtag #onthegrid

We also continue to design our logo, so we’ll keep posting those here.

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