January 2012
7 posts
Contact Congress - Talk directly to your...
Today Ben and I are announcing the release of a new iPhone app called Contact Congress. What it does is really simple: grabs your location (or you can give us an address), locates your representatives, and lets you get on the phone with them in two taps.
Why we built it
Like many folks who work on the web, Ben and I hadn’t really thought that much about contacting our...
Efficiency, affordance, & skeuomorphism
There have been many lengthy debates on the value of skeuomorphism in design, and I wanted to put down my thoughts as I’ve purposefully avoided employing it in any broad sense in the design of Khan Academy.
There is nothing wrong with skeuomorphism per se. As a design tool, its primary benefit is the ability to communicate the way something should work by helping a user recall its physical...