S+ Fieldtrip

jxnblk: Smaller homes require less heating, less cleaning, less maintenance, force you to simplify, are cozier. If there’s one thing I learned when I was in Japan, it’s that small is awesome. | @jxnblk I am jealous of the experience!

(Found via laureola / freundevonfreunden) San Francisco based interior design firm Studio O+A have designed the new offices for the Facebook Headquarters in Palo Alto, California. The design of the space relied heavily on input from the users, appropriate for a flatly structured company that weights every employee’s opinion equally.

matthewb: Following extensive testing, Joe Leech and Fiz Yazdi conclude that users do scroll beyond the fold in the vast majority of cases, and that cramming all of the content above this imaginary line might actually have the opposite effect:

The surprising thing we learnt was that actually having less above the fold (one large content block as opposed to 2 smaller ones) encouraged exploration below the fold.