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On the button seek-time latency front: if I’m nuking something for 6 minutes or less, I’ll hit minute plus x 6 instead of hunting for the numbers and the start button.
On the button seek-time latency front: if I’m nuking something for 6 minutes or less, I’ll hit minute plus x 6 instead of hunting for the numbers and the start button.
A px is a bludgeon to force your taste on the design. The em is a friend, it counsels the design and takes advice from it.
Continue readingIntroverts are not necessarily shy. Shy people are anxious or frightened or self-excoriating in social settings; introverts generally are not. Introverts are also not misanthropic… Rather, introverts are people who find other people tiring.
Continue readingIt’s taken a bit longer than I’d hoped, but it’s here. And it’s good. If you’ve been holding back for any reason, please download Internet Explorer 8 today.
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Wade Shearer, on the not-so-semantic difference between ‘user experience design’ and ‘interaction design’.
Continue readingView the source on this one :)
Continue readingeverything’s editable. this is hot. they even made it 160 dpi so it prints the exact size of an iPhone screen :)
Continue readingYou should check out “Use the Best Available Ampersand” from SimpleBits. I love me some ampersands, and that post is a great resource for prettifying your site’s ampersands with a little CSS typography.
Continue readingIn the interest of more attractive Internets, here’s a quick little javascript “widon’t” snippet — written in jQuery — that I’ve been using. Now go do something cool with it.
Continue readingHey Dale Harney: you forgot to remove Cameron Moll’s name when you jacked his website.
Continue readingSteal a fish and feed yourself for a day. Steal a fisherman and never be hungry again.
Continue readingOne of the reasons I like OS X is the consistent user interface…. So you can imagine how excited I was when the Firefox team announced that they would be releasing operating system targeted themes for Firefox 3
Continue readingIt’s tough to find a good example of “text only” typography on the web. Most designers eventually throw in the towel and use images… So you can imagine my excitement when I saw the site for Seed Conference 2008.
Continue readingAjaxian just featured a rad comment hack, originally posted by Dirk Ginader, for those times when you need to comment and uncomment a section of code a bunch. By adding or removing just one character you can comment/uncomment an entire block of code. This saves a bunch of time, and works great for just about any language that uses C style commenting.
Continue readingDe-emphasis in design is every bit as important as emphasis.
Continue readingFirefox for Mac has something seriously funky going on with the scroll action on my blog. Not sure what’s causing it, but I’ll look into it when I get a minute. Until then, I guess you’ll have to use the scroll buttons on the side.
Continue readingCheck out this timeline based treasure map drawn by a six-year-old. I can’t quite put my finger on why I like it so much, but it’s an interesting perspective on interaction.
Continue readingAdobe (Macromedia) Flash is a very powerful tool which is, unfortunately, mostly used for evil.
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