The 2008 A List Apart findings are now posted. While in previous years the whitepaper results were released in PDF format, this year’s results are presented solely on the web. Eric Meyer did a beautiful job crafting the various charts using nothing but HTML and CSS.
Welcome. This is an aggregate display of different pieces of content I publish on the internet including entries, links, quotes, twitter updates, and more.
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04 Aug, 2010
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More and more designers are lamenting the lack of a real tool for UI design. Latest discussion: http://bit.ly/9125hX
16 Jul, 2010
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Still can’t believe I now work for Google. Off to celebrate with all my #metaweb homies.
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Check out the #Metaweb video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJfrNo3Z-DU
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30 Jun, 2010
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@tyler I am eating a carrot. That is all.
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25 Jun, 2010
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Switching back to @launchbar after roughly six years with Quicksilver. Actually feel a little sad.
22 Jun, 2010
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Just hit the #photoshop limit for nested groups.
09 Jun, 2010
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Laying out tables in #photoshop might be the worst thing about being a designer.
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Current tab count: 71
21 May, 2009
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Sergey Brin When asked about RDF and the Semantic Web:
I'd rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write, than by forcing humans to write in ways computers can understand.
08 Apr, 2009
26 Feb, 2009
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Interaction Design Reading List
Recommended reading list from the faculty members of the MFA Interaction Design program at the School of Visual arts
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Fixing oAuth
Fixing oAuth by changing only four words in the spec.
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Dieter Rams: Ten Design Commandments
In the 1980s, Vitsoe designer Dieter Rams became concerned by the “impenetrable confusion of forms, colours, and noises” surrounding him. As a way to cut through the noise and focus his own design ideals, he devised a list of rules governing good design. Each rule is as relevant today as it was over twenty years ago.
07 Jan, 2009
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Blambot Comic Fonts & Lettering
Awesome collection of comic inspired fonts. Some cost a small amount, but there are lots freely available for download. Gonna have some fun with these.
23 Dec, 2008
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Using svg on the web
Useful tips on using svg in a webpage, both internally and as a linked object.
18 Dec, 2008
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State of Performance 2008
Steve Souders has a recap of 2008 in regards to web performance as well as predictions for what 2009 will bring. Included in the post are links to slides he used in class High Performance Web Sites, taught in the Computer Science depeartment at Stanford. The slides are packed with information that should be of interest to any front-end architects.
16 Dec, 2008
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Extending jQuery's selector engine
I had no idea you could do this with jQuery.
15 Dec, 2008
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How to install lxml python module on leopard
This has long eluded me.
12 Dec, 2008
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The fundamental problem with CSS3
Once again, Matt Wilcox hits the nail on the head.
03 Nov, 2008
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Ed Summers discussing the new RDF service from Freebase:
So why is this important? Because following your nose in HTML is what enabled companies like Lycos, AltaVista, Yahoo and Google to be born. It allowed for agents to be able to crawl the web of documents and build indexes of the data to allow people to find what they want (hopefully). Being able to link data in this way allows us to harvest data assets across organizational boundaries and merge them together. It's early days still, but seeing an organization like Freebase get it is pretty exciting.
14 Apr, 2008
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Wilson Miner on being an optimizer:
Once it's out there, there's usually a very short amount of time where I'm actually happy with what I've accomplished.
After that brief moment of satisfaction, I immediately start to see everything that's wrong or missing and start obsessing over what should be different or better. From that point on I'm incapable of being satisfied with the finished product.
28 Feb, 2008
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Shaun Inman in an interview with Perishable Press:
Minimalism is not an aesthetic. You don't ornament a design with Minimalism. Minimalism is an artifact of a design process that favors the rigorous distillation of content. Content is King and Minimalism is the emperor's new clothes.
20 Feb, 2008
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John Gruber in an interview with Shawn Blanc:
What graphic design is to a visual idea, writing is to a verbal idea.
15 Feb, 2008
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Adrian Holovaty :
People can define "journalism" however they'd like. At EveryBlock, what we're interested in exploring is what sort of frequently updated information consumers want at the block level, and how they'd like to receive it. Whether this is called "journalism" or not is strictly academic.