December 2009
41 posts
Dec 31st
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Dec 31st
Dec 31st
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“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably...”
– DANIEL BURNHAM, CHICAGO ARCHITECT. (1864-1912) via Daring Fireball
Dec 31st
Dec 30th
“No HTML in helpers.”
– Ryan Singer, UI Fundamentals for Programmers
Dec 29th
“Attention has a halo.”
– Ryan Singer, UI Fundamentals for Programmers For example, if you add visual treatment to a button (“Add User” in Highrise), elements around it get a little weightier by association because the user’s eye will be drawn to that area.
Dec 29th
“A programmer-design UI smell is “all function, no explanation”.”
– Ryan Singer, UI Fundamentals for Programmers
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
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101 things learned in interaction design school →
Cool blog.
Dec 29th
Security Theater →
by Bruce Schneier
Dec 29th
AdLocal →
Mobile advertising. Location-aware.
Dec 29th
Dec 29th
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On Web Typography →
A List Apart article from last month by Jason Santa Maria.
Dec 28th
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Typekit @font-face fonts →
Dec 28th
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CSS text-shadow, box-shadow →
Dec 28th
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The League of Moveable Type →
By Micah.
Dec 28th
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How to use CSS @font-face →
Dec 28th
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"social media"
The term “social media” has driven me nuts for years. I have no problem with “social”. People are social. It makes sense to have a “social app” or “social game”. On the other hand, “media” is now used for everything. Replace “media” with “content” and the meaning does not change. Both words are bland...
Dec 24th
startup therapy →
Dec 23rd
foursquare api documentation →
Dec 23rd
Dec 22nd
the elves leave middle earth - sodas are no longer... →
Dec 21st
Dec 16th
“Television treats the eye as another ear.”
– ?
Dec 14th
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“the finest chip dip this side of the flippin’ Mississip’” (via Klondike)
Dec 13th
"24 ways": advent calendar for web designers →
Dec 13th
“Picture a world in which in which your User Interface, Data Store, and Network...”
– Sam Ruby
Dec 13th
amazing work studio →
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
social media sites as old penguin book covers →
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
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WatchWatch
Novelist Tom Perrotta made his reputation through attention to craft, with novels including Election, Little Children, and The Abstinence Teacher. John Hodgman took a more improbable route to fame: by depicting a PC in Apple’s “Get A Mac” ads, providing commentary as a “resident expert” on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and writing the books The Areas of My...
Dec 11th
Dec 11th
President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance... →
Dec 11th
Dec 10th
Let pedestrians define the walkways →
Dec 9th
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Dec 7th
MIT Start-up Showcase
shortbord: Shortbord extends our heartfelt thanks to the committee that selected us to present at the MIT Start-up Showcase on December 3. … present at the Showcase was receiving enough votes from the crowd to be 1 of 3 companies selected to “pitch” the entire MIT VC conference yesterday.  We were given the chance to explain the business rationale behind Shortbord to an audience of...
Dec 5th
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Code Rack →
Best Rack middleware.
Dec 3rd
Dec 3rd