2008

May

Processing Ported to Javascript

Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks

I just started using Evernote as a possible replacement for my Backpack+Yojimbo system. The text...

Nice iPhone wireframe stencil set for OmniGraffle

Apr

Photoshop and Atari 2600 box art - good times.

Why I love working with family people

iPhone unpacking

Dear undecided Pennsylvania voters, please listen to Bill’s advice before heading to the...

New Site Launch - Lextant.com

I just finished helping Dan and the rest of the gang at Lextant with their new corporate site. This...

Mini Book Review: Daemon

DDOS attack, trojan horse, NSA, kernal rootkit, bukkake, packet sniffer, Oakenfold, Triple DES...

It looks like Google’s reasoning for the SketchUp...

Microsoft Introduces Tool for Avoiding...

My favorite April’s Fool joke today. Ford prepares to...

Super-Sized Transmit Icon

While watching Cabel’s talk yesterday, he mentioned the new 512x512 pixel Transmit icon for...

Mar

Back of the Napkin

I came across the book Back of the Napkin this weekend in a magazine. I thought it sounded...

I’m not sure I’ve ever thought of it in these terms, but I think I fit Joshua...

Cabel Sasser's talk from C4

Steve Jobs Wants to [CLAP] Pump... You...

The curious folks at Apple Insider have dug up some very interesting looking patent filings...

Japan: URL's Are Totally Out

Cabel has an interesting post based on what he saw on a recent trip to Japan. It seems that...

Reading About What to Read

I just came across Brijit. It’s one of a couple of new sites that are relying on actual human...

The Peanuts as The Watchmen

ExpressionEngine 2.0 Preview

Paper Is Out, Cellphones Are In

Apple's Design Process

The Tools Google Uses Internally

Research Papers Written by Googlers

Some interesting photos from an experimental interfaces...

Amazing high-speed film work for new Schweppes ad.

GMail Address Trick

I wish I would have known about this earlier. So, if you’re using GMail or Google Apps, you...

37signals Workplace Experiments

iPhone Inspiration

So, this is a couple of months old now (nearly 5 years in Internet time), but understand that I...

Feb

Ohio State's Design Program

eboy’s awesome (as always) poster for the launch of...

Cool video tour of skinnyCorp (parent company of Threadless).

Amazing space-saving stairway/bookshelf design.

New Site Launch - Concentric Studio

I just finished up a new site for Concentric Studio this week. Concentric is a design...

Putting out a fire in freezing temperatures makes for a...

Flickr-style Multi-file Uploader

YUI 2.5.0 was just released and the one thing that really caught my eye was the Uploader control. ...

Rockin’ to OS X. Via swissmiss.

New Site Launch - Shortcut

Shortcut is another project that’s been rolled out since the beginning of the year. I...

Only Joshua Davis could sound cool when saying “dope”.

Yahoo and Microsoft, Like Oil and Water

This Times piece discusses the first thing I thought of when I heard the Yahoo-MS news a couple...

“When users can’t figure out how to use your app,...”
— Amen. Quote by Jeff Atwood

RIP: Yahoo! Design closed down

Videos of Interaction 08 presentations now...

MacBook Air foreshadowing in The Incredibles?

flight404's Processing code

Yahoo! AS3 Maps API

How many employees does Google have?

Dean Edwards Updates IE7.js

If you aren’t familar with Dean Edward’s IE7 project, you should definitely check it...

This is somehow incredibly beautiful.

I watched the first couple of these Lost “Missing Pieces” videos a while back, but found...

Design Couldn't Save Yahoo

Although it sounds like a postmortem, Khoi Vinh has an interesting post about good design not being...

De-Dotting Links in Firefox

Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just came across this tip this week. You can get rid of those...

Jan

I’m guilty of being overly antsy with tracking my UPS...

Using SQLite in Processing

I know I’ve piqued an interest in Processing for a couple of you, so this tip may come in...

This is about one of the coolest damn things I’ve seen...

Time’s State of the Union tagcloud.

New Site Launch - Dyenomite Tie Dyes

Another site that I’ve been working on for a while has launched recently. This one is for a...

flight404 once again shows his mind-blowing Processing skills.

On the design of the first-run assistant (in...

Live Preview with Coda and ExpressionEngine

New Site Launch - PhotoEats.com

I’ve made a couple of posts recently about a new site I’ve been working on and it has...

Inside the Expression Engine Site...

As I’ve mentioned before, I love a good behind-the-scenes piece. I just came across this...

Nextcity: The Art of the Possible

Sometimes I wish I could teleport to the city that never sleeps. The New Museum will be featuring...

I find book cover designs fascinating and Chip Kidd is one of the best in the business.

Mucking Up the Fireworks

CocoaKuler: Beef up your Apple color picker with this new...

A couple of times I’ve wondered what Tufte’s...

Free to a Good Mac

I picked up a MacHeist bundle last week, but I don’t have a need for all of the apps. If...

Original SimCity Source Code GPL'd

Darwin Award Candidate

OpenID Mini-Rant

The blogosphere is all frothing over Blogger and Yahoo jumping on the OpenID bandwagon. This is a...

The MacBook Air seems to be making more voluptuous models a bit self-conscious.

Rands has started a fun Flickr group called Pixel Rigs for...

New YUI Design Pattern: Carousel

Yo Google Maps, Gimme a Spot?

Here’s one more feature on the form I mentioned the other day. While not mandatory, having...

The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the...

I don’t really have much interest in playing games any more, but I love seeing how they are...

Flickr Photo Selection Control

I haven’t posted anything I’ve been working on for a while, so here’s a little UI...

I think it’s safe to say that an iPhone is not on David Lynch’s wishlist.

Jeff Atwood’s over the top racing setup - I...

Mr. Friendly throws like a girl

“Successful designs augment a good head start with constant...”
— Kevin Hale from Wufoo

Illustration work for the Mac/PC holiday ad. Thanks to...

With equal parts comic book, infoviz, and full bleed...

What? Google doesn’t support Netscape 1.0.

Clocking the Candidates - Interesting infographic showing...

Math Weenies Take on Vegas

I just started reading Rigged by Ben Mezrich - the true(*) story of a Harvard kid who gets caught up...

2007

Dec

To Infinity and Beyond!

The Amazon Wishlist Fairies came through this Christmas with To Infinity and Beyond! The Story...

Processing and Yahoo!

I’m not sure how I never knew about the Design Innovation Team over at Yahoo. They’ve...

2008 Predictions

Dan over at Lextant just asked me for a few predictions for the coming year to put in their company...

An external hard disk that renders a treemap view of the...

Ruby Book Giveaway Contest

A copy of Russ Olsen’s brand new book, Design Patterns in Ruby, just landed on my desk. I...

Change Is In the Air

Note: In some regards, this is a personal, self-therapeutic type entry. In others, it makes sense...

The YUIBlog has a sample chapter (The Flyweight Pattern)...

Tumblr Commenting

Thanks to Bryce for pointing me to Disqus. This is a nifty drop-in commenting system with spam...

Catching Up

After a week off the grid on vacation, here are a few of the interesting things I’ve been...

Google has released a new Chart API with tons of options and...

Beautifully done docu-infoviz opening credits to The Kingdom.

Flickr Adds Photo Editing Tools

The BBC's Anemic Backend

For as exciting and progressive the BBC is on the design and interaction side, it’s...

A Unique Anti-Spam Approach

The Times has an interesting piece about Steven Kirsch’s new startup, Abaca. His new venture...

SuperSleight: Transparent PNGs in Internet...

Nov

“You can’t force people to follow directions they deem...

What the Google Intranet Looks Like

“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it...”
— Steve Jobs and this is exactly...

A sneak peek at the upcoming BBC redesign. And for...

Design Meltdown § Principles of Design

I can’t think of many nice things to say about the...

Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix

Building a Custom Multiple Selection...

I was originally going to write this up in the style of an A List Apart article with lots of detail,...

Lost Theory

I don’t follow the Lost scholars online and their frighteningly deep analyses of the...

Coding Horror: Recommended Reading for...

I’m trying to decide about going to SXSW in March. ...

“Web design is the creation of digital environments that...”
— Zeldman

Who Says Geeks Aren't Tough?

Congrats to UFC fighter and fellow computer geek, Joe Lauzon, in his first round victory Saturday...

respond_to brainwashing

Wow, I’m glad to finally find that I’m not the only one who thinks the whole RESTful...

“I think that I would have had a much nicer time these past...”
— Khoi Vinh

Amazon's Kindle

As much as I hope for someone to nail a great e-book reader someday, I don’t think the Kindle...

I love Marcos Weskamp’s visualizations and his Newsmap...

The new Adobe AIR logo - I think it’s fantastic.

Who, besides Tufte, installs 48,000 lb. lawn...

Dashboard Web Clip Widgets

I never thought I’d have a real use for the new Web Clip widget feature built into Safari 3...

New Leopard Theme for TextMate

Jawbone

At the meetup last night, I noticed that Alex uses a Jawbone headset. I had never seen that brand...

First Coworking Meeting

Last night’s Coworking Meetup was a success. About a dozen people showed up and we talked...

Repurposing the iPhoto '08 Photoscanning...

For those of you who have used iPhoto ‘08, you’ve probably noticed the slick new UI...

Small Affordances

Lighthouse by Active Reload is nice issue tracking application. Most apps in this category are...

You Will Never See Ants Stuck in...

The New York Times has an interesting piece that discusses how researchers are starting to discover...

Mike Rohde Turns Down Apple/iPhone Design...