Book idea: User interfaces for various modes of transportation: cars, trains, planes, buses. Not just pretty pictures, but also principles of operation, good stories, and – most importantly? – hacks and conventions. (Inspired by: https://twitter.com/chris_labarthe/status/1020534582406393856 …)
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Book idea: Photographic appreciation of little devices and helpers like this one; small, highly specific tools that appear to solve very particular problems in various industries. (Each one with a short story/explanation by someone from that industry.)https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1124199670320787456 …
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Book idea: A collection of ads like these (do they have a name?), with necessary context and explanation what happened since.pic.twitter.com/AUSpXzXHJV
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Book idea: The history of traffic signs throughout the world – the culture, the typography, the differences, the quirks. Photos interspersed with various traffic manual standards pages.https://twitter.com/mwichary/status/1171835327691948032?s=21 …
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Book idea: A celebration of (human) languages – a journey through quirks/delights/exceptions of various languages written and spoken today. Casual, not academic. To give perspective and open minds. (Please tell me this book already exists,
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For example, the Dutch write “2 t/m 8,” which stands for “tot en met,” or “up to and including.” It’s kind of like a smarter range hyphen – so useful to avoid confusion, and you see it everywhere.
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I love, love the retro-cyberpunk aesthetic of the dot matrix CRT green screens
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I got caught up in a thread about (among other things) home intercom systems that seem to have been popular in the late '60s and early' 70s, and how few of them seemed to be operable.
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Book idea: evolution of elevator interfaces (There’s a great Dashiell Hammett passage where he describes the sound of the closing of a double-door elevator in his/our neighborhood)
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