Got to keep up with the web
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Mac Plus v Dual Core AMD
Sometimes, simple and light are the way to go
Unique flash cursor
Funny and clever (although perhaps not practical)
Seventy-nine short essays on design
80 type-faces and no pictures
CSS 3 in action
css3.info have gone with a take no prisoners attitude to css3. kudos
Golden point from Seth
Give your customers more to think about than price
Multi-touch table
Multi-touch is growing, and looking good. Nothing new here from Microsoft, but its looking good for interaction
How to make a planet in PS
Tutorial for making a very cool planet image
Three important benefits of personas
Communicating information in a meaningful way to your user
Silicon Valley sucks
Tech Crunch feel that Silicon Valley is over hyped (again)
Powerpoint humor
Presentation giving is an art form
StarFire - A vision of future computing
The future being 2004, as this project started in 1992. Interesting interaction ideas
The Uncanny Valley of UI design
The software we design and create should look and feel like the user expects
You do not need a home page
Good point made here - a home page is not a home, its an index page
SVG cheat sheet
A list of SVG 1.1 elements and their properties
SVG resource
Good site for all sorts of information and examples of SVG
Stuff and nonsense redesign
Andy Clarke says goodbye to IE6 for his site - one of the first, of what I am sure will be many
Life Hacker asks if Firefox is bloated
Seeing this more and more now. Certainly Gekco could do with a bit of speeding up
Google gets a redesign
Evolution is the way to go. I like it all, apart from the tacky drop down menu
Magic Ink
Focus on interaction design might be the wrong one? Long read - but a good one
Freehand is being ditched
Real same to see Freehand go, although not suprising. I much prefer its handling of text and pages over IL
Support for web-standards
IE7 still shockingly low - this is 2007 for goodness sake
Usability principles for CMSs
So many CMS products are so hard to use, both for the developer, and for the end user
Why do OSS UIs suck?
A slashdotter asks the same question I have been asking for years
Dustin shows his dark side
Cunning little bit of JavaScript...
Would you bet your life savings on it?
Only propose a usability enchancement if you would bet your life savings on it
MIT Scratch
Programming education for kids. Hopefully inspire another generation
Das Magazin
A news wiki site from the folks at iA
Way to advertise a job position
Even Jeff Foxworthy gets a mention
KDE 4.0 alpha 1 is here
The KDE team are pressing on well with version 4
Use links for pages and buttons for actions
As always, do not make the user think...
Coding geek time - WebKit coding standards
Interesting to see the coding standards of a project as large as WebKit
Do designers think alike?
Scribble a logo and then compaire it to others
Do we change users
In UI and product desgin, do we change users or reveal unmet behaviours?
Evolution of the web browser
Personally I think revolution is needed
How to hire a designer
Same rules apply equally to developers. The main one - show some courtesy and reply, I can not believe how many companies do not even do that
Live Ink speeds up reading
Our eyes are wired for reading the way we currently do, apparently. Try this - it does made quite a difference
Love or hate Microsoft - let there be a middle ground
Either you use their software all the time, or you avoid it. Instead - let us all work together
Online photo editing
Not exactly PhotoShop but quite impressive anyway. Wonder what the Adobe PhotoShop online will be like?
Pages are the problem
Musings on how the web has inherited the word page from print, and how that limits our vision
JavaFX from Sun
The part about the end of AJAX is of course nonsense, but it is interesting that another player is looking at an Apollo like platform
Stand up for semantic HTML
Use the right tool for the right job damn it - presentation in HTML is not right!
ALA 237
A list aprt number 237 - read and enjoy!
Andy Budd on CSS2.2
Andy proposes taking a snapshot of the web as it stands and calling it CSS2.2 (the useful parts of CSS3) instead of waiting another 8 years
Fancy working on Firebug full time?
Yahoo are looking to make the most useful tool to a web dev even more useful
Considering Opera 9.5 and 10
Opera is already an excellent browser - here are some of their plans for the future
Bandwidth of books
Design Observer notes that by 2052 the number of people writing and publishing a book will outstrip the number of people reading them
Old, but outstanding
I just came across this old favorite of mine from Ikea. Outstanding use of video
Webby awards
Webby awards for this year are announed. Some nice work in here.
Opera 9 developer tools
Not just Firefox and Safari with developer tools - Opera has some excellent ones as well
Digg controlled by the mob
Nobody has control. Remember there are always two ways of looking at everything
RSS in plain English
A clever method of presenting using web-based video
This is wanted
Fantastic video