In lieu of the year's ending (and with some free time on my hands) I went through stuff that I noted last year and picked things from culture, web, ideas, apps, fashion, etc that I liked the most in 2011. Here they are, in no particular order:
Iris Apfel's appartment Digby The Meaningfulness of Lives Naked Hiking Carousels 3 main lessons of physchology Savage Beauty Think Quarterly Bayes' Theorem Jonathan's card What was there The Breakthrough Myth & The Myth of Innovation Hero Not without salt Designing for tomorrow Instagram Why being certain means being wrong The App Internet Totokaelo Spotify top tracks of 2011 Home Plus grocery store Seth Priebatsch's TED talk Code & Story Wicked Problems Runkeeper's Health Graph Misfit Ideas Down time Pitfalls of Certainty The cognitive cost of expertise Collaborative consumption Design Research Redistribution markets Bill Cunningham New York Square Good design Certified Pre-Owned Mohawk General Store Kevin Slavin's TED talk Satisficing vs. Optimizing Dissonance Online fashion marketplaces The year in reading Social Flow Kinfolk Curisma Gimme Bar Arrested Motion How consumers interact with Facebook Delight by design Why we are not hiring creative technologists MIU MIU Glitter-finish sandals Facebook makes brands stupid Sharing economy The Fancy Foursquare + Square Apple TV Innovators share their thoughts Bucketlabs Drunken online shopping The never ending story The Economics of Happiness The obvious, the easy, and the possible Strangers and groundbreaking ideas Creatures of comfort MNZ Store Social Games Disruptive hypotheses La Garconne GroupMe Svpply sets 1Q84 TaskRabbit Le Havre This isn't happiness Maurizio Cattelan at Guggenheim Venmo A brief rant on the future of interaction design Lanvin AW 2011 Shop Terrain Retromania The world's biggest family The power of metaphors Mikkat Market Bicycle curriers Retronaut Give a smile On the edge Talent is nothing without focus and endurance Henry the Worst Wantful Puppy Elite 7 major problems The isolator Koi pond The history of high five Brands are simple Trendland Cereal Couture Idea Mensch Its this for that
