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Mission Street Food, how I wish I was back in SF for one more meal
Yesterday I talked about my great iPhone map experience of not getting lost in SF because of technology. Today I thought I’d go in a different low–fi dinning experience direction. …
Exporting Airplaine Music Player Info
Having a couple hours to push around a bunch of buttons in front of me as I flew from JFK to SFO, I thought it would be interesting to explore …
Link Drop (7·10·09)
July is here and with that comes the Tour de France. I’ve found a number of bike and tour related stuff that is shows the sport in perhaps a slightly …
A couple Stanford d.school students try converting people on the freeway
A friend passed me on a video of a project designed by some Stanford d.school students. The process and explanation of the project is quite smart, though their hypothesis maybe …
12 months of condensed DesignNotes in 2008
Wanting to take a look back so I can figure out how to proceed with 2009, I grabbed a bunch of notable posts that I thought were worth spending a …
I’m so happy to be here
I’m not sure if the wait of three days in an airport will ever make me trust Air Canada again, but I’m so happy to be back in NYC. The …
A couple thoughts about airport living
This is day three of trying to fly back to NYC from Toronto. The irony that it only took four days to drive from Edmonton to NYC (2,500 miles) last …
the Moleskine City Blogs
Everyone likes Moleskine though sadly my nomination of it for the People’s Design Award didn’t win. Then there was the Moleskine City Guides, a pretty good idea for the closet …
Virgin Galactic
I snapped this image at Wired’s Nextfest over the weekend in NYC. You can check out more about Virgin Galactic at http://www.virgingalactic.com/
Setting that goal
Goal setting: do you set your goals as the person you are today, or for the person you’re going to be when you reach them? That question and many more …
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DesignNotes is published in NYC by Michael Surtees. Michael tries to explore people's daily experiences and observations with design. Recently he shifted from being the Principal and Creative Director of Gesture Theory to designing products at Dataminr. He can be reached at michael at michaelsurtees.com 
