About two months ago, Jason told me that he and his team at 37signals were working on a calendar. We talked for a bit about how other calendar apps suck a whole lot, and how he (and I) felt it necessary to finally build one that introduced clean design and a quality user experience to Read more »
Google Hires The #1 Designer In The Industry
May. 29, 2006
My buddy Doug Bowman is headed to Google. Doug — who I believe to be the best designer in our industry — was snatched up by Google to lead all their design efforts across all their products. This position wasn’t around before this announcement, it was a special position created just for Doug. Wow. I Read more »
TechCrunch Redesigns, The Emperor Has No Clothes
May. 12, 2006
TechCrunch has redesigned. I debated writing about this, not because I didn’t think it was important to talk about, but because I’m very sure that the design did not look like this when Rachel presented it to him. Rachel does very fine work (I’ve spoken highly of her work on other occasions), her recent work Read more »
Power Polarities In India
Apr. 2, 2006
After writing the previous entry, I emailed with designer Naina Redhu who is based in India and faces both similar and very different pressures from her clients, simply because of the way clients think about “sending work to India.” Even though a project in India will probably be cheaper than in the United States, companies Read more »
Power Polarities In The Design Business
Mar. 31, 2006
It is a fantastic time to be a designer. I have never seen the design-for-hire industry so saturated with work in my entire life. Almost every single of one of my designer friends (who either are partnered with a few other people, or do all freelance work) are completely and hopelessly booked up with client Read more »
Anti-Aliasing, TextEdit Style
Jan. 16, 2006
Like most designers, I do my design comps (prototypes) in Photoshop. And also like most designers, I’m a typophile and am obsessed with the best looking type I can achieve in my designs. After all these years, I do believe the one thing that irks me most about Photoshop is the way it renders text Read more »
Favorite Sites Of The Moment
Jan. 15, 2006
A quickie post for this holiday weekend, my favorite sites right now: Dangergraphics.com is just nasty. I’ve loved that site for awhile now — the illo touches, iconography, and slick Lucida Grande typographic stylings are just fantastic. Jason was even kind enough to drop 9rules into his favorite links. Wolfgang’s Bartelme Design has that Mac Read more »
Web 2.0 Quiz Answers
Nov. 9, 2005
Are you Web 2.0 worthy? Find out what answers were the correct ones:
The Web 2.0 Quiz!
Nov. 6, 2005
Alright boys and girls, it’s time to put your thinking caps on and your money where your mouth is, because this is the test you’ve been waiting for — it’s time to test your Web 2.0 and AJAX knowledge. You’ve read everywhere about “web 2.0″ applications, “AJAX” effects, and everything else, so now it’s time Read more »
Color Me FAT
Apr. 22, 2005
Javascript guru (and fellow Upstate New Yorker) Adam Michela has done it again with his Fade Anything Technique (FAT) that takes the yellow fade technique many steps further to a completely different planet. Now, using object-oriented Javascript (!!!) and classes instead of IDs you can fade any element on your page dynamically. It’s so refreshing Read more »
Attentional Spotlighting in User Interfaces
Feb. 11, 2005
In visuospatial terms, a saccade is an eye movement from one area in the visual field to another, and usability testing using eye-tracking equipment tracks the timing and progression of saccades across a user interface in response to certain stimuli. These stimuli may include 1) the first presentation of the interface to the user, 2) Read more »
Interview: Khoi Vinh of Behavior
Aug. 3, 2004
What good are weblog entries about weblogs permeating design and business if you can’t read about their usage on the front line? Khoi Vinh of Behavior Design, an NYC-based deisgn firm, talked to us recently about the XHTML/CSS redesign of his company’s website, and how they used MovableType to manage their Flash calendar. So without Read more »
