More 2013 predictions - this time it's design trends

Gizmodo has published a list of 13 design trends in electronics for 2013. Among them are: 

• Flat screens;
• Touch screens;
• In what feels as if it's becoming a regular, and quick, cycle, designs for specific platforms rather than the web;
•  And designing for humans - where the experience is as important as the looks. If Gannon Burgett's link doesn't interest you, take a look at this article by John McPhee in The New Yorker (available, behind a paywall, here). McPhee is writing about structuring long written work, but tucked inside it is a fascinating exegesis on the text editing (not word processing) program he uses, Kedit.

Useful tip for the weekend

This one is from Jesus Diaz of Gizmodo:

There's a Google Mail feature you have to use. Seriously. You must. Because copying an entire chain of messages after your reply doesn't make any sense when people can scroll down to see all the messages, chained one after the other. What makes sense is to only provide the snippet that you are actually replying to. And that's why you need to do this:

1. Select the text you are replying to in Gmail.
2. Hit the reply button.
3. Boom! Only the selected text will be quoted. Reply at will.

I know. This is common in all mail programs, but most people don't know it exists in Gmail too. I discovered it by chance a long time ago, assuming it would work, but today I discovered that most people don't know about it.
So start using it, please. Pass it around and enjoy the love of your correspondents, who will be grateful forever for your neat replies.

And, in case you think we're all about numbers here, a link to the 10 most often looked-up words in 2012 (according to Merriam-Webster).