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- ActsAsUndoable | Javascript nodetraveller.com
Unlock the secrets to your advertising/creative agency’s happiness, fame and fortune.
- The Masterplan | The Morning After themasterplan.in
The Morning After is a magazine-style theme for WordPress created by Arun Kale. [...] The theme design is grid-based and has the following requested features:
- 10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Plus some useful general information on contrast issues.
"There is an amazing amount to see and do at this year's London Design Festival." Perhaps too much...! Takes place between 15 and 25 September.
- The Experience Stack (Schulze & Webb) schulzeandwebb.com
Matt Webb's excellent dConstruct presentation; "...highlights products demonstrating different layers of the experience stack, and the rationale for designing for good experience."
- Pulse Laser » Blog Archive » The Experience Stack revisited schulzeandwebb.com
The experience stack is a way of thinking about the different levels at which experience design operates.
- Peter Van Dijck’s Guide to Ease » Blog Archive » IA for beginners: long pages work. poorbuthappy.com
"Scrolling works. Long pages work. Anything else tends to be informationarchitecturitis (which I define as “the practice of adding too much structure when it’s not needed and even gets in the way”)." But not all the time, naturally.
- Design Inside Yahoo!: George Oates | unraveled unraveled.com
I talked to George about Flickr’s beginnings at Ludicorp, its place in Yahoo!’s social media strategy and the Flickr design process.
From 2005. Background.
- adaptive path » blog » Dan Saffer » UXweek2007: Leisa Reichelt on Waterfall Bad, Washing Machine Good adaptivepath.com · Archived on
Notes from Leisa Richelt presentation.
The design firm DIY Kyoto (as in Kyoto Protocol) recently began selling a device called the Wattson, which not only shows your energy usage but can also transmit the data to a Web site, letting you compare yourself with other Wattson users worldwide.
- Bug & Issue Tracking | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
"I decided some time ago that if I was going to build an issue tracker that I’d have to start by creating a simple issue life-cycle and workflow...." Garrett's working on an issue tracker.
This tool allows you to visualise good colour combinations on a Photoshop style colour picker. It's primary use is finding acceptable colours from an existing inaccessible combination - while maintaining the aesthetic appeal of the original.
- Subtraction: The Framework Formally Known as ’Prints subtraction.com
Khoi Vinh interviews Olav Frihagen, creator of Blueprint framework.
The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment -- especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.
Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.
- Starting out: Creatives clued in to 'Generation C' | Small Business | Business | Money | Telegraph telegraph.co.uk
"It was a leap of faith. By mid-2006, Matt Webb and Jack Schulze had been meandering along, doing a few jobs together and talking about "crazy ideas"."
- The Learn List thelearnlist.com
A super simple resource that aims to gather the best tutorial and book links from all over the web.
This page collects all my published work related to information architecture and user experience.
"The kind of typography I'm talking about is not your typical "What font should I use" typography but rather your "knowing your hanging punctuation from your em-dash" typography."
- Pixelmator pixelmator.com
OS X image editor (Photoshop alternative?) Due soon. Looks pretty natty.
- This Ain’t No Disco aintnodisco.com
This Ain’t No Disco {it’s where we work} invites Agencies from across the world to show us their inner sanctum
- The Sandbox · plaintxt.org plaintxt.org
The Sandbox is a theme for themers. It has the ability to be easily skinned, so beginners will feel comfortable styling it since they only need to know CSS. More experienced designers will drool at the rich semantic markup.
- SonSpring | PNG Overlay sonspring.com
"Creating a transparent PNG overlay which can be used as a mask / frame around regular JPEG or GIF. This way, a typical CMS installation can be configured so users can upload photos without having to worry about using any graphics program to apply filters
Since this is a technology blog I want to focus on just a couple of technical areas that I’ve been tracking — templating and layout, and some of the issues we’ve had there.
The very existence of the new, updated book hints that usability guidelines evolve over time. In one of the first chapters, Nielsen makes this explicit by revisiting earlier web usability issues to see how much they've improved in seven years. Each
- Actual Browser Sizes (final) - Baekdal.com baekdal.com
In order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776x424px.
- greenormal: New Article for Mediacat greenormal.blogspot.com
"If the world falls apart then there is no market. And if a much greener substitute is brought out by a competitor, there is a good chance you will lose a lot of business too. Not to mention the risk if Greenpeace attacks you. Many companies have accepted
- fabric of folly - a weblog by Dan Taylor fabricoffolly.blogspot.com
Despite often being deprioritised (or forgotten about altogether) by web developers, the lowly favicon (a contraction of favourite icon) is becoming an increasingly important aspect of brand identity on the web.
- Subtraction: Oh Yeeaahh! subtraction.com
Creating some kind of definitive documentation about my approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid as my primary layout tool.
"[With eyetracking] we can see that a user may navigate the page of an interface that houses the info she wants," she said, "but if the text is poorly presented, or the navigation is cluttered, or there are too many superfluous images so she cannot easily
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 February tantek.com
Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design: "I'm calling these hypotheses instead of laws because they have yet to be proven out through rigrous scientific study and critique. I've developed them merely from anecdotes and examples."
- Designing for Content | GarrettDimon.com garrettdimon.com
Visual decoration had to be kept to minimum. For me, this mean forgoing any heavy visual treatment of the header or inclusion of a mark or logo. [...] I would have to rely on typography, the grid, and whitespace to create an aesthetically pleasing experie
- Really Wild Flowers - British wildflower seed, plants, bulbs & orchids for your garden reallywildflowers.co.uk
We provide everything you’ll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow.
- Information Architects Japan » iA Notebook » The 100% Easy-2-Read Standard informationarchitects.jp · Archived on
- Garrett Dimon / Documenting Interface Design garrettdimon.com
I’ve done my best to migrate away from traditional documentation methods and find ways that actual help others visualize what the end product should look like.
Heuristic evaluation is a technique that involves analysing the usability of a website against a set of general usability precepts.