Category: Design

So maybe this will become a tradition: Thomas Vander Wal discusses the concept of being a Technosocial Architect (“To many people technology gets in the way of their desired ease of use of information. Those of us who design and build in the digital space spend much of our time looking at how to make…

In other realms, they say when it makes Newsweek or Time (especially the cover), a phenomenon is over. Let’s hope that’s not the case for the hipster design-y sites picked in this Newsweek Design Dozen article (forward by Chris).

Dan Brown’s “quick and dirty Visio callout”, an elegant solution to a common document-design problem Digital Web Magazine reviews Caphyon Advanced Web Ranking (“does a great job of tracking and reporting search engine rankings across websites”) Digital Web tutorial on ‘The Pinball Effect’ (example) UX Matters on ‘Deconstructing the Mobile Web (“The mobile Web is…

A week or so back I was reading another one of those “Top 10 mistakes of website design” articles. All the usual stuff was in there like skip intro, splash pages, popup windows, and intrusive animation but what really got me was the mention of “right-side blindness”. Most of these top 10 lists just regurgitate…

Still working my way through interesting links I saved from the IA Institute members mailing list. Livia Labate posted this link to the “Value of Design” factfinder, a site that communicates the value of design to business. The site includes an interesting “Your Report” tool that enables you to cut and paste interesting tidbits and…

ColorBlender is a cool Ajax-y service that suggests an entire palette of colors for you based on a dominant color that you enter (using RGB sliders). I’d still prefer a great visual designer come up with color ideas, but if you were on a budget and if you didn’t know the first thing about how…

And if you are doing “traditional”* Visio wireframes for a rich web application, this article at Boxes and Arrows has some suggestions about how to narrate the interactive sequence in a slide presentation to your client. * Yes, I realize it’s ridiculous to talk about traditions for a medium that is only 15 years old.

The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which published continually – on the web only at times – throughout the Katrina and Rita hurricanes last year, has posted a Flash animation showing how New Orleans flooded.

UX Magazine – The User Experience Magazine writes about getting Dugg after their launch and having to locate a new webhost to deal with the influx of traffic. Not bad for a fledgling webzine. Fundamentally, the magazine is a blog. The articles are short and the site is powered by TextPattern. But the homepage presents…

I thought it might be interesting to listen to the panel on how large enterprises ought to choose their design partners. The lineup had changed a bit from what was listed in the SXSW directory. The moderator was now Maddie Coover of Alamo Design and formely of Omnicom (the owner of Agency.com). The panelists were…

I’ve been posting raw notes from panels all morning. I blogged about Beyond Folksonomies over at the blog for my book, The Power of Many and I blogged a presentation by a Harvard psychology professor about why people make poor decisions, How to Do Precisely the Right Thing… on my personal blog. I’ve just been…

Mark sent around a link to a collection of articles of web design and development, saying, “Scan down the page past the HTML tools and there are some great articles on this page.”

Max Design recommends using the max-length attribute (no relation) to achieve the ideal line length for content. Svend Tofte shows how to accomplish the same result (max-width) in Internet Explorer.

Well, I should have posted this when Todd first sent it around because now it’s all over the net, so let me be the one millionth person to add this link to a blog: YouTube – microsoft ipod packaging parody

Google Analytics has posted a few white-paper type articles to its Conversion University section, grouped under Drive Traffic and Convert Visitors) (Link via Terry.)

AIGA, a designers’ professional association is relaunching its web journal, GAIN: The Gain journal is dedicated to stimulating thinking at the intersection of design and business. Through rigorous case studies and thoughtful interviews, the journal demonstrates how the process of design can be used to solve business problems, foster innovation, build meaningful customer relationships and…

Since leading sites such as Yahoo and Google set expectations for users across the web, I’m glad to see that Yahoo is sharing their user-experience philosophy in the form of their new User Interface Blog.

Todd sent around this post from the IE team’s blog regarding the changes they made to CSS in IE7 Beta Preview, and this MSDN article that describes the changes in more depth, adding: I think the important thing to remember is that this isn

In Home Page Goals Derek Powazek explains why he designs the deepest pages of a site first before working his way back to the home page: Before I get into those goals, here

I don’t design type, but I wish I did. I’m posting this iStockphoto.com article, Know Your Type, here as a reminder to read it later when I’m not as slammed.

Web guru Jeffrey Zeldman examines the “Web 2.0” hype that threatens to overwhelm some of the legitimate advances in rich application development for the web in his article Web 3.0 at A List Apart, noting that it’s hard to map out AJAX interactions and putting the bubblicious flavor of the hype in context with this…