Help your audience fall in love with you by moving beyond human-to-computer interfaces and embracing human-to-human design. Hide Your Shame: The A List Apart Store and T-Shirt Emporium is back. Hot new designs! Old favorites remixed! S,
Week 35, a little later than usually because I just got home. But without further delay, here is this weeks Friday Focus. Enjoy the upcoming weekend everyone. Sites of the Week My personal favorites from various css galleries over the past
Larissa Meek, former interviewee, bikini model, and etc, has joined the Devlounge team. Watch for her first article sometime in August. If you are interested, she recently wrote an article for that other site (Vitamin) titled Web Design-isms: 7 Sure
I finally got around to implementing conditional content here on Snook.ca. I've wanted to do this since I moved to the new design just over a month and a half ago. The left sidebar has a number of elements like the projects I've worked, quick lin
As you may have seen from the wee banner at the top, I’m on a break from Thu 14 Jun - Mon 25 Jun so things may get a little untidy/stale around here. It’s OK though, fadtastic will function as normal under the capable hands of Matt Davie
The New Website Apple have redesigned their website and what a superb example of a good redesign it is. In this post we would like to take a little look at the new design and what has been done to move it on. Here is an example of the new desig
We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down to the question, how well the content is presented and how easily the information can be perceiv
Last weekend while I was organizing my house, I found a really cool book I had forgotten I had. The book is called "401 Design Meditations" and it’s all about insights and thoughts from leading designers. Advertisement: read m
Last week, I mentioned we’d added the interface design team for the $100 Laptop to our UX Week program. Well, now we’ve finalized the schedule, and it’s a doozy. Take a look at it in detail, and tell me there’s a better
Last Friday saw the launch of arguably the most hyped interaction-design driven (and marketed!) product ever: the iPhone. And yet…where were Apple’s interaction designers? Those animations, the way the keyboard works, how the touch scree
Spurred on by this review of GetWebContent.com over at Paul Stamatiou's site, I got to thinking a bit about web content and hiring, defining and measuring good web copywriters. Near the end of his post, Paul asks:
Via Simon Willison, an interesting article - featuring the likes of Adrian Holovaty - that discusses a slow growing movement where newspaper are hiring programmers to help streamline work for journalists while at the same time creating mashups and o
Assigned a page of an atlas for a graduate class in graphic design at the Yale School of Art, Eric Nevin created a log of love letters to the islands of the sub-Antarctic. The writing charmed us and the history adds something to our understanding of
Ad Reinhardt fretted about the meaning of life. He agonized about the purpose of painting. He questioned everyone, critiqued everything, and worked incessantly. In other words, he was a graphic designer.
Let's explore the power of using the Intranet to further brand goals with internal audiences. Brand management groups at many companies have found the Intranet to be a powerful tool to accomplish the following on behalf of their brands:•Communicate
Just having some fun today in a random Sunday post to help expand our “Commentary” section. Today, I’m taking on the tough issues - the ones that really irk the hell out of me when I see them used by a lot of the so called “d
The New York Times on Experience Design Usability: Sometimes there is a huge disconnect between the people who make a product and the people who use it. The creator of a Web site may assume too much knowledge on the part of users, leading to co
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