August de los Reyes, Design Director of Artefact Group (formerly of Microsoft Surface) argues that we should rethink the design process and focus on motivation, learnability and adaptability in contrast to a user-centric design which puts faith in the users (who often don’t know what, why and how they like something).
The Bauhaus’s philosophy was that form should follow function and all other distractions and decoration should be avoided.
If you have a blog that provides downloads, this plugin is the perfect twitter marketing tool for you. Tweet2Download allows you to require a tweet and a follow in exchange for a download on your blog.
I’m going to start off on a seemingly wild tangent today, but stick with me — I do have a purpose. A few years ago, I read some interesting stuff on periodical cicadas.
Interesting font for data visualizations.
Interesting read about the user interface chrome—not Google’s browser.
Interview with Erik Spiekermann for Gestalten.tv
Emulating background image crop, background image opacity, background transforms, and improved background positioning.
Neat progress bars tricks.
Real-time video processing with html5 video + canvas + javascript + css
Simply put, IE9 is the best browser Microsoft has ever released. Has it caught up to Chrome, Firefox and Safari?
Over the past few months, Paul Irish has collected a few worthwhile notes on @font-face that are worth reading over if you geek out about this stuff.
In my recent “Sign Up Forms Must Die” presentation, I outlined a few solutions for getting people engaged with digital services without asking them to fill in a bunch of input fields up front.
Inspired by American portrait painter Chuck Close, this script converts an image into a pixelated version using an HTML5 canvas element.
And then, of course, you ask us how we work. We respond with confidence, bold Helvetica outlining our design…
A set of image filters that render in the browser. Greyscale, sharpening gaussian blur and more on the web, no ImageMagick or GD required.
In my Designing for Today’s Web presentation at Webdagene 2010 in Oslo, Norway I outlined several important Internet trends and the impact…
The findings are in from the survey for people who make websites. Once again, we have crunched the data this way and that, figured out what the…