The Building Windows 8 blog offers some fascinating insight into Microsoft's research and design processes. Take the recent post on improving Windows Explorer. It begins with a discussion on how Windows Explorer is used today. Through telemetry data — "based on hundreds of millions of individuals opting in to provide anonymous data about product usage"| Thomas Park
The folks over at Devour maintain a nice collection of videos, wrapped in a clean interface. One of the touches is that each video is presented using what I call the Devour Effect: a text description in the foreground and a still from the video blurred in the background. I was curious how Devour produced| Thomas Park