Perpetual nodesign in process…
the cobbler's shoes and all that.
I really appreciate this article simply because it links to many, ?near canonical past articles from others in our field. It takes a lot of work, technically (aside from typographically) to get this right, I hope it get’s better soon.
One other resource for fonts I am keeping an eye on is an open source place [...]
Gates Notes … Bill Gates has a blog. All I can say is why use 9px type? Didn’t you have a “wizard” help you? I actually like the look but achieve it with human readable text please, not some designer’s conceit.
Best Grunge Textures and Photoshop Brushes All In One Place | Web Design Ledger.
And The Best Free Texture Packs of 2009 … as if!
The Rise and Fall of Design Within Reach | Fast Company.
Well I’ve always called it “Design Within Reach ? of 2% of the Population”. I was always under the impression that modern design practice was about mass production thereby enabling more people to enjoy well designed objects, not to push design into a more rarified [...]
50 states and 50 metros.
The fifty largest metro areas (in blue), disaggregated from their states (in orange). Each has been scaled and sorted according to population. The metro areas are US-Census defined CBSAs and MSAs.
It took me a moment to grok it, for instance, there are no labels but if you hold your cursor over [...]
I intend no real comparison of features, capability, strength, or simplicity. I simply like the opposing diagrams from a 10k foot view.
Interesting post on aggregation and sites.
Curating, Not Moderating, the Flow of Content and Participation- Dachis Group Collaboratory.
Frontpage Slideshow – Learn more!.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Paper: A Second Life for Your Museum: 3D Multi-User Virtual Environments and Museums