Sun, 28/01/2007 - 1:02pm.
SmartRetina is a lightfast gesture-tracking platform written in Macromedia Flash 8. It allows you to create interfaces which tracks gestures with a simple webcam and converts them to operations on the computer, e.g. navigating a map.
Sun, 28/01/2007 - 12:51pm.
This Open Source project, which is basically a word processor, also captures the non-linguistic clues from when you type. Thus, the way you type is reflected in how the text is presented to you.
Sat, 27/01/2007 - 2:54pm.
Transcription from the UIE Web App Summit on what designers can learn from the success of Social Web Applications.
Sat, 27/01/2007 - 1:14pm.
Architects are evaulated based on their work, while graphic designers measure themselves by their clients. We can learn a thing or two from architects though: by putting more focus on our work, we can create a more meaningful dialogue between current and
Fri, 26/01/2007 - 10:06pm.
A digg-like community site which allows you to rate the social impact of its articles. Instead of using community power to gather interesting stories, this uses community power to evaluate companies’ societal involvement. (Via kottke)
Tue, 23/01/2007 - 8:45am.
One of the critical aspects of Open Source collaboration is to work on modular, open projects. It’s interesting to see this also happen vor video and law articles on the Internet.
Sun, 21/01/2007 - 7:44pm.
A Harvard special on newspaper and journalism in the digital age.
Sat, 20/01/2007 - 3:39pm.
This glowing review makes me blush! :-) Too bad he spelled my last name wrong (it’s "Coumans"). Maybe I should get a nick name.
Thu, 18/01/2007 - 4:23pm.
Combining the ease of frameworks and the power of web standards to create a new, event-driven application methodology.
Thu, 18/01/2007 - 4:20pm.
"Le Grand Content examines the omnipresent Powerpoint-culture in search for its philosophical potential. Intersections and diagrams are assembled to form a grand ‘association-chain-massacre’. which challenges itself to answer all questions of the universe
Tue, 16/01/2007 - 4:31pm.
Packet Garden is an experimental artwork that seeks to provide an alternative and accessible approach to visualising daily internet use. And it’s Open Source (built on Python) as well.
Tue, 16/01/2007 - 8:44am.
Hot on the heels of the second release candidate comes Drupal 5.0, just in time for its sixth birthday!
Sun, 14/01/2007 - 1:50pm.
The attention to detail is amazing on this portfolio website.
Sat, 13/01/2007 - 2:09pm.
Is it Browser Wars 2.0? (Or 3.0, depending on how you look at it.) No roadmap or concrete plans are known for IE8, so it’s hard to make a judgement now.
Sat, 13/01/2007 - 12:10pm.
Beatufiul, well-balanced color pallette and composition!
Mon, 08/01/2007 - 3:40pm.
Widely known for his treatise on the transition from orality to literacy.
Thu, 04/01/2007 - 11:23am.
Lots of useful Photoshop video tutorials here.
Wed, 03/01/2007 - 7:23pm.
It looks like 2007 will become the year in which we’ll get offline storage and offline functionality in web applications.
Wed, 03/01/2007 - 7:19pm.
On the difference between Collective Intelligence and Dumbness of Crowds.
Tue, 02/01/2007 - 12:27pm.
A Drupal module based on the Timeline widget, which enables you to use the Event and Views modules to input nodes with dates and output them in an interactive, dynamic Timeline.
Tue, 02/01/2007 - 12:24pm.
"Timeline is a DHTML-based AJAXy widget for visualizing time-based events. It is like Google Maps for time-based information."
Fri, 29/12/2006 - 12:01pm.
Yep, the original photo-roman on which Twelve Monkeys is based. With English voices though.
Fri, 29/12/2006 - 11:58am.
Most CSS books fail to inspire me graphically (I’m looking at you, Eric Meyer), but this is a book which combines technical excellence with graphical excellence!
Fri, 29/12/2006 - 11:53am.
VLC accomplishes the same, but this will enable FrontRow and other Quicktime-enabled apps to use Intel video codecs.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 3:49pm.
A layout switching method which defines body classes depending on your screen width. The markup stays the same, but the presentation can be changed radically.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 3:43pm.
A detailed website development process, describing everything from the who, what, where, why, when and how, to a detailed project proposal.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 3:26pm.
Development documentation for the format of the XML files and editing the ActionScript for the Adobe Media Gallery.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:23pm.
When evaluatiing a content management system, be sure to distinguish architectural differences, since they are fundamental to its functionality.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:21pm.
Thorough discussion on simplicity, what it means and how to design for it.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:19pm.
Content management is a process, not a system (CM vs. CMS). As such, it’s about people and technology.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:17pm.
Dutch article which explains object-oriented programming with Javascript.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:15pm.
A Firefox extension which adds microformats support
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:12pm.
Third part on microformats, this time arguing there are some basic types of information which the browser should handle.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:10pm.
Second part in a series on microformats
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:09pm.
Great article series on Microformats.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:08pm.
Nielsen describes three stages of digital divide: the economic, usability and empowerment divide. It’s the last one that we focus our attention on, he argues.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 12:06pm.
Applying packaging design concepts and theory to web-based products.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:55am.
Using a task analysis grid to communicate project milestones, goals, release dates etc.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:50am.
"Looking at user experience documentation as a form of comic is going to become increasingly relevant as web experiences and interfaces become more complex, subtle, and nuanced." Interestingly, comics are a great medium to look for answers to user experie
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:47am.
“Single-page Web applications are much better at supporting complex user workflows than multi-page Web applications are.” Unfortunately, they’re also much harder to code in an accessible way.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:44am.
If you’re learning photography or are on the market for a new camera, this page is a good resource to start with.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:41am.
A test on the standards-compliancy of a dozen WYSIWYG web editors. Not surprisingly, none are perfect, although the commercial ones score better then the Open Source ones.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:38am.
A nice roundup of basic project management: setting expectations, making a proper project plan (and have the client sign it off!) and communicating clearly.
Thu, 28/12/2006 - 11:27am.
Design pattern to hide complex or advanced features and show them once a user looks for them.
Mon, 18/12/2006 - 2:05pm.
Beautiful and high-resolution wallpapers are to be found here, even for dual-screens.
Mon, 18/12/2006 - 2:03pm.
The solution to fat type in Safari…!
Sat, 16/12/2006 - 1:58pm.
Lessig used the wiki-version of the first edition, together with all comments, and edited it together for this new version. A truly collaborative effort which brings writer and reader together.
Fri, 15/12/2006 - 9:29am.
This allows you to use a strict doctype in case you need to use iframes.
Sun, 10/12/2006 - 5:43pm.
Pliability is the quality of an interaction where there is an immediate appropriate reaction to the physical action a user takes. The more immediate (tight) this action is, the more pliable it is.
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 6:40pm.
(Web)design is problem solving. If clients put forward requests like "make the logo bigger", they’re giving you solutions, not problems.
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 6:36pm.
Speed up your Drupal website with this easy tutorial to install eAccelerator.
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 6:09pm.
Great collection of tips and guidelines from experts for creating your portfolio.
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 6:08pm.
Part Two: Dimensions, Needs, and Desires
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 6:05pm.
Part one with a proposal for a true user-centered design methodology, which focuses on five levels of increasingly important "States of Being", three core areas of "Human Activity" and a variety of specific, clearly articulated "Needs and Desires".
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 5:55pm.
Interview with the studio behind various iPod commercials.
Sat, 09/12/2006 - 12:49pm.
Very nice Sinterklaas present: more then a hundred mini-icons!
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 5:08pm.
Nice article argumenting that you should spend most of your time designing the typography of your site.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 4:54pm.
According to research by SIRC, website visitors aren’t interested in multimedia elements on websites. I’m assuming this is only for content-driven websites.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 4:53pm.
If you want a fancy upload widget, you’ll have to use Flash. This library makes it accessible to use such a technique.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 4:52pm.
Amazing Illustrator work with the tutorials to create them yourself.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 4:00pm.
Series of PHP tutorials for newbie programmers.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 3:52pm.
More choice is not always better. This article examines some of the negative effects of more choice, and argues that you should attempt to balance choice with good defaults.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 3:49pm.
A closer look at some of the recent interesting interface concepts for the web: slider-based filtering, fisheye menus, treemaps, and drag-and-drop.
Fri, 08/12/2006 - 3:43pm.
In order to evaluate and implement localization, common terminology is needed. Similar to the WAI, a three-tired system is proposed for the various levels of localization.
Wed, 06/12/2006 - 3:22pm.
A nice comparison of Drupal and Joomla, although be sure to read the comments because there are some minor mistakes in it.
Wed, 06/12/2006 - 10:20am.
Bridging the gender gap through road signs??!
Wed, 29/11/2006 - 5:15pm.
A Mootools development tutorial, filled with (Firefox-only for now) examples.
Wed, 29/11/2006 - 5:15pm.
Nice tutorial for vector illustration, explaining all the basic concepts.
Wed, 29/11/2006 - 11:40am.
Beautiful artwork and design portfolio
Wed, 29/11/2006 - 11:39am.
The beautiful portfolio of Art Director Diego Zambrano, focused on designing experiences and emotional relationship with the product. Advertainment to sell dreams, not products!
Sat, 25/11/2006 - 7:07pm.
The most efficient and effective way to label forms according to an eyetracker usability study is to place the (non-bold) label above the input field, and to visually separate each pair from another.
Sat, 25/11/2006 - 7:04pm.
How many people does it take to engineer the shutdown functionality in Windows Vista?
Sat, 25/11/2006 - 6:39pm.
Ping, another PNG compressor, but optimized for Intel Macs.
Mon, 20/11/2006 - 11:25pm.
The buying behaviour of people is determined by their prior use – before using a product, they make their choice based on features, after using a product, they value simplicity and usability more.
Sun, 12/11/2006 - 11:50am.
A 1500 Megapixel photograph, stitched together from 400 images.
Sun, 12/11/2006 - 11:44am.
The single most important feature for current web applications: the ability to use them off-line.
Thu, 09/11/2006 - 12:54am.
A former Adaptive Path founder talks about his job at Google and web design in general.
Thu, 09/11/2006 - 12:38am.
It’s our time to decide on the future of HTML. Now that the W3C is planning to further evolve it, and the WHATHG group has nearly finished their work, what else do we want from HTML?
Sat, 04/11/2006 - 3:28pm.
An excellent guide to color spaces and color management for image manipulation software, digital photographs and web images.
Thu, 02/11/2006 - 8:06pm.
Creating advanced interactive layouts with the Yahoo! user interface library.
Thu, 02/11/2006 - 7:37pm.
Nice observation by Lawrence Lessig, that a ‘true’ sharing site makes it easy for users to move content (eg. Flickr), while ‘fake’ sharing sites make this difficult (eg. YouTube).
Thu, 02/11/2006 - 7:19pm.
The final report of an elaborate research to determine actual browser sizes as opposed to screen resolutions. Bottom line: "In order to support 95% of your visitors, you need to design for a maximum size of 776×424px."
Thu, 02/11/2006 - 7:17pm.
For regular web development (ie. little Javascript) this setup is way too elaborate – for every OS revision and IE version a different VM.
Thu, 02/11/2006 - 7:11pm.
Some perspective on what it means to create distributions in the upcoming Drupal 5.0
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