Archive for the 'Design' Category
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
I can’t say it enough.
Blah-Blah Text: Keep, Cut, or Kill? (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
The introductory paragraph(s) found at the top of many Web pages is what I call blah-blah text: a block of words that users typically skip when they arrive at a page. Instead, their eyes go directly to more actionable content, such as product [...]
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Friday, October 5th, 2007
Visualizing Fitts?s?Law By Kevin Hale ? Comments (30) ? October 3rd
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
I know it’s tough to admit you were wrong but I am very glad as are many others around the web, the NYTimes has chosen to open it’s archives.
I will in fact say I told you so, in fact I talked about it twice already here:
Farewell Friedman, Later Dowd, See ya Kristoff, Wouldn’t Want to [...]
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007
Why Microsoft outplays Apple long term – Scobleizer
Apple doesn’t get developers. They do get whizzy UI.
Microsoft eventually will get whizzy UI. The platform that has BOTH third-party developers AND whizzy UI will win and win big in the marketplace.
I have no quip with Mr. Scoble’s critique of Apple for not having someone appear, even at [...]
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Thursday, June 28th, 2007
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Thursday, May 3rd, 2007
typography – a photoset on Flickr
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Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
Paper: A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums
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Monday, April 9th, 2007
Miranda July launches a new book in a cool way.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
BookMooch: a community for exchanging used books book swap and book exchange and book trade
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HTML Emails – Taming the Beast
A Guide to CSS Support in Email – Campaign Monitor Blog
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Amberjack: Site Tour Creator – Simple. Free. Open Source.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
visualcomplexity.com | About
VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.
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Monday, March 19th, 2007
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library
Nice compendium of design styles for UI and content layout types on web sites.
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
COLOURlovers Coup.0 :: Color Trends & Palettes
Came across this while looking at Federated Media and realizing the near futility of blogging or publishing unless you really have to… (reminder note: this is my scratch pad)
Pretty great looking color palette site. Funny. There are many color palette sites now. Not to mention all the various color [...]
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
hellolinda – Furniture, Objet, graphic design, Reims-Istanbul, France
The splash page is incredible… too bad that. Why not extend this beauty into your “flash_index” ?
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Friday, March 16th, 2007
‘NYT’ Opening TimesSelect to Students and Teachers for Free
NEW YORK The New York Times is opening up access permanently to TimesSelect to all students and faculty who have .edu e-mail addresses beginning on March 13.
In 2005 I mentioned the forthcoming wall between some of the most excellent columnists as a loss. I still feel this [...]
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Sunday, March 4th, 2007
In our world (my family) we lean heavily toward modernist tastes. Our house is not a bastion of this style as the effort to complete refit is an enormous undertaking. There are more like hints and areas leaning toward the modernist aesthetic around our house.
We toss around the idea of buying or building something small [...]
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