Hello, Twitter, one year later
A year ago, today, I joined a small startup with a penchant for brevity. Many of my friends were using it. My mom had only heard mentions of it. I noted some risk, but saw greater reward. Variables...
View ArticleTheme files for my WP tweet archive
Last month, I posted a short little write-up about how I created my own tweet archive. It was a quick hack, pulled together one Saturday afternoon, and fairly incomplete, at best. But the archive...
View ArticleA Book Apart, Home
Started reading an advance copy of HTML5 for Web Designers. As with previous works by @adactio, it’s clear and concise: http://j.mp/html5fwd link
View ArticleAn Inconvenient Drop Shadow – Brand New
Brand New notes the new Google logo. http://j.mp/bn9vPl This change was years in the making. We proposed similar changes in 2007. link
View Article20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 | Eat This, Not That
Enlightning: 20 Worst Drinks in America 2010 http://j.mp/9MhvDK via @clarkware link
View ArticleResponsive Web Design
Ethan’s “Responsive Web Design” is an eloquently worded, logical evolution of modern, responsible web design. http://j.mp/bCNN08 link
View ArticleBall Pool
Love what creative minds are producing, no Flash required: http://j.mp/9S94YL link
View ArticleFrugal Day
Applied a few design changes to http://frugalday.com this weekend. Also added a mobile version that displays automatically. link
View ArticleSFpark
Concept sounds good. But I'm concerned about more people checking their phones while driving in the city: http://sfpark.org/ link
View ArticleHow Much Do Music Artists Earn Online?
Visualization: How Much Do Music Artists Earn Online? http://j.mp/9KRvLc via @flowingdata link
View ArticleThe Death of Depth: Less and Less of More and More
Good article on attention spans and what's affecting them. As any experienced meditator knows, the mind has a mind of its own. Left free to wander, that's just what it will do. When we manage the...
View ArticleBetter Screen, Same Typography
Khoi Vinh on Apple's lack of full commitment to excellent typography, despite creating oft-superior devices seemingly capable of perfection: Steve Jobs’ vision for Apple, repeated in yesterday’s...
View ArticleHovers (and power users) still have a healthy future
Ryan Singer on the power of hover states and non-tablet computers: But to the geeky or trained, the desktop is a fount of power and speed. Documents are side by side, text flies from here to there, IMs...
View ArticleMy Measures & Dimensions
I just discovered an iPhone app named My Measures & Dimensions that lets you take any photo and quickly draw dimensions on top of objects or spaces in the photo. Typically, I use a piece of scrap...
View ArticleThe Future of Self-service Banking
Spotted this link to an intriguing ATM prototype experiment by BBVA in the comments on Khoi Vihn’s post on ATM design ATMs were first introduced over 40 years ago and since then many features have been...
View ArticleAvoiding the Uncanny Valley of Interface Design
From Francisco Inchauste, on the topic of UI that imitates realism: It is so easy to love a certain effect and want to use that everywhere. Not all projects need to have the selections sitting on a...
View ArticleFirst Autistic Presidential Appointee Speaks Out
Go, Ari. In December, he [Ari Ne’eman] was nominated by President Obama to the National Council on Disability (NCD), a panel that advises the President and Congress on ways of reforming health care,...
View Article30-Second Rule for App Success
Those of you who saw my talks at either Future of Web Design in NYC, or at Webstock in Wellington may remember a segment where I urged delivering value as quickly as possible. In that segment, I...
View ArticleCranking (by Merlin Mann)
Merlin writes so beautifully. “And, although I’m confident that I will always think my daughter is The Greatest Thing in the Universe, I’m also all too aware that this feeling will not always be...
View ArticleTesting tweet embeds
The Long and Short of It – super simple tweet embedding in WordPress wp.me/pf2B5-2pL — Doug Bowman (@stop) December8, 2011
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