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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.
Articles tagged “design”
em v. px
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 readingCaring for your introvert
Introverts 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 readingDeclaring War on Internet Explorer 6
It’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.
Continue readingChanges
Look! It’s different!
Continue readingThat is all.
It’s important to remember that the user isn’t a marionette.
Wade Shearer, on the not-so-semantic difference between ‘user experience design’ and ‘interaction design’.
Continue readingShould I use tables for layout?
View the source on this one :)
Continue readingteehan+lax has an amazing PSD of iPhone GUI resources
everything’s editable. this is hot. they even made it 160 dpi so it prints the exact size of an iPhone screen :)
Continue readingMore jQuery typography
You 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 readingA jQuery “widon’t” snippet
In 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 missed a spot
Hey Dale Harney: you forgot to remove Cameron Moll’s name when you jacked his website.
Continue readingHow does that proverb go?
Steal a fish and feed yourself for a day. Steal a fisherman and never be hungry again.
Continue readingFirefox 3, Del.icio.us Bookmarks and consistent interface
One 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 readingA brilliant example of text only typography
It’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 readingUberquick comments in HTML/XHTML
Ajaxian 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…
De-emphasis in design is every bit as important as emphasis.
Continue readingDo websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
Mac + Firefox + Justin’s blog = wow
Firefox 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 readingTime based interaction
Check 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 readingWhy Flash sucks
Adobe (Macromedia) Flash is a very powerful tool which is, unfortunately, mostly used for evil.
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