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Creates a page fold effect in the top right corner.
- Spoonflower: Print custom fabric on-demand spoonflower.com
- metacool: 1: Experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world metacool.typepad.com
The signature behavior of people who routinely achieve innovative outcomes is that they constantly seek to experience the world instead of talking about experiencing the world.
Via russelldavies.
- Usable Accessibility: Making Web Sites Work Well for People with Disabilities :: UXmatters uxmatters.com
The concept of usability often seems to exclude people with disabilities, as though just access is all they are entitled to. What about creating a good user experience for people with disabilities—going beyond making a Web site merely accessible to make it truly usable for them?
- Designers Toolbox: Web Safe Area designerstoolbox.com
PSDs illustrating safe areas for various browsers.
Via thegingerbloke.
- Information Architects » Blog Archive » Web Trend Map 4 - Final Beta informationarchitects.jp · Archived on
New Web Trends map is nearly there.
- 100% 100per.com
Nice Japanese products. Crazy words. "100% is condition beyond reasons. Not the scheduled or harmonized world, but the world where we live is filled with the logically un-analyzable mysterious factors beyond the range of expression with words and numerical value."
A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects.
- Ponoko – Buy Make and Sell Almost Anything ponoko.com
Like Shapeways but uses "two-dimensional laser cutters; 3-D objects need to be assembled afterward."
When all the sections end evenly on the page, users subconsciously decide there isn’t anything else to look for and don’t try to scroll. Of course, if they don’t scroll, they miss important content, such as the list of products.
- 50 swinish ways to annoy web users | Blog | Econsultancy econsultancy.com
Makes a handy checklist of stuff not to do.
More on font stacks.
- Rescue Team Management, Incident Logs, Analytics: Decisions For Heroes. decisionsforheroes.com
Makes me wish I was a hero. "A collaborative rescue team management tool to record and analyse rescue operations. Instead of archiving information as paperwork, we act as a platform, generating real-time profiles of members, available resources, and activities. Decisions for Heroes uses this data to deliver live and intelligent information to the field."
- 960 Grid System 960.gs
Really don't like these grid-based frameworks but there's some useful general info on grids here.
- Noby Noby Boy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
The player accumulates points by how much they stretch during gameplay. These points can be submitted online via a character called Sun to another character called Girl. Points submitted online by players to Girl will be added cumulatively, causing Girl to stretch. Beginning on Earth, Girl will stretch to the Moon, then to several other planets, each unlocking new playable environments for Boy to stretch in. The Noby Noby Boy team expects players to take between one and two weeks of cumulative play time to reach the Moon.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- BBC - Radio Labs - How we make websites bbc.co.uk
For the past few months I've been touting a presentation around the BBC entitled 'How we make websites'. It's a compendium of everything our team has learned from long years developing /programmes, the recent work on /music and the currently in development /events.
- Javascript grid overlay | Labs | Pete Goodman - Web Developer petegoodman.com
Handy. "To show or hide the design grid (or other graphic), just import the following javascript file, and then use the keys Control and ; to show or hide the grid."
- Model View Presenter - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
A software pattern considered a derivative of the Model-view-controller
For throwing at certain designers. Surprising how poor some cta's are.
- CR Blog » Blog Archive » The Designers Republic Is Dead; Long Live The Designers Republic creativereview.co.uk
Designers Republic goes under. "I’ve never liked that agency model - it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order to service bigger clients. I’m not being ungrateful to the people who ran the business side at DR – it wasn’t their fault. I’m glad we did it - it took getting there to make me realise that it wasn’t where I wanted to be."
Via blech.
We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support.
Via nickandjess.
- AJAX APIs Playground code.google.com
This site details all standards & guidelines for developing and delivering products and services for BBC online (bbc.co.uk).
- Layers | Screen forensics layersapp.com
"Capture your displays as a Photoshop layered image". Can't think of a use for this yet, but cool.
- Shapeways | passionate about creating shapeways.com
We want to be a fun, inspiring place where you make your own 3D designs come to life using 3D printing.
Via peter.costello.
- whitehouse.gov Website Code dotnetperls.com
You want to read about the code structure of the new whitehouse.gov website on this historic Inauguration Day of the 44th president of the USA. The site is built on ASP.NET
- Really Interesting Group reallyinterestinggroup.com
- Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print * noisydecentgraphics.typepad.com
[We] thought it would be interesting to take some stuff from the internet and print it in a newspaper format. Words as well as pictures. Like a Daily Me, but slower. When we discovered that most newspaper printers will let you do a short run on their press (this was exactly the same spec as the News Of The World) we decided to have some fun.
We were wrong about the first-time shoppers. They did mind registering. They resented having to register when they encountered the page. As one shopper told us, 'I'm not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.'
- Headlessness - Light pollution is complicated (or, don't blame it on the lighting designer) headlessness.com
The lighting designers take the rap for light pollution once more. Allow me to say a word or two in their (or, er, our) defence.
"Axure RP is the leading tool for rapidly creating wireframes, prototypes and specifications for applications and web sites." Expensive.
- Adactio: Journal—The Rise of HTML5 adactio.com
"We used this as an opportunity to really push what Dan has been calling "progressive enrichment": sprinkling in some modern CSS declarations even if not every browser gets all of them [...] So if you view the UX London site in IE6 it looks fine. Nothing special though. But if you view the site in a browser like Safari, a lot of little details shine through. The design is pretty much a test-case for the box-shadow property using RGBa."
#css #standards #html #html5 #css3 #clearleft #web #design #inspiration#progressiveenrichment #progressiveenhancement - MAKE: Blog: HOW TO - Use "Furoshiki" (cloth gift wrapping) blog.makezine.com
"The Ministry of the Environment Government of Japan has a guide (PDF) on using cloth as opposed to paper for wrapping gifts to cut down on the wasted paper usually used in gift wrap." Next year.
Hurrah, 24 ways is back.
AWESOME! Maybe. Haven't read it yet.
Via nickandjess.
"The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it." Must read.
- An ABC of R2 | Help | guardian.co.uk guardian.co.uk
"A series looking at different aspects of guardian.co.uk's rebuild and redesign project, which ran from October 2005 to September 2008." Must read.
- Should I use tables for layout? shouldiusetablesforlayout.com
Handy.
Why do double decker buses have windows? I’m not talking about the big windows we look out of, but the small letterbox shaped windows above that we can open and close? The answer, obviously, is so that passengers can regulate temperature and ventilation, but they come with a major problem: for half the year, they make passengers on the bus ill. At least, that’s my theory.
A website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
Via paul.irish.
- adaptive path » blog » Peter Merholz » One way for surviving the downturn - delineate your business value (#7 and #10 in a series of 16) adaptivepath.com · Archived on
By understanding a business’ problems or opportunities, we can figure out what behaviors we’re hoping to engage, and then connect that behavior to a financial outcome.
Via alastc.