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Duly Noted
- They Criticized Vista. And They Should Know.
- The documents include accounts of frustrated Vista users in Microsoft's executive suites.
- Lessons from the Book: Final
- I will no longer compensate for limited or broken specification support in browsers after January 1, 2010.
- 0 + 1307
- Sweetheart, that's all very nice, but if you're not going to eat pussy, you're not a dyke.
- Facebook's Brilliant but Evil design
- Facebook is now partnering with 3rd party sites and selling your information to them for money.
- Spammers Use Striptease to Crack CAPTCHAs
- A virtual stripper named "Melissa" that promises to progressively remove items of clothing for viewers who solve online CAPTCHAs is actually part of a scheme by spammers to crack web site registration traps.
- What if Google had to Design for Google?
- Social-Bookmark-Spam Facilitators!
- Judge allows class action against Target Web site
- A federal judge certified a class action lawsuit against Target Corp claiming the discount retailer's Web site is inaccessible to the blind.
- What Barnes & Noble could have said
- Those things don't have anything to do with a better book shopping experience…. They represent the disconnect between a business strategy and a design strategy.
- Should designers optimize for page views…or user experience?
- In almost all cases of optimizing for page views, the experience of the user takes a back seat.
- Facebook Considered Harmless
- As easy as farting and as addictive as cigarettes.
- Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site
- The business model for advertising revenue, versus subscriber revenue, is so much more attractive.
- Learning from Dave Winer
- When a blog allows comments right below the writer's post, what you get is a bunch of interesting ideas, carefully constructed, followed by a long spew of noise, filth, and anonymous rubbish.
- Banner Blindness
- The four design elements that work best in ads are plain text, faces, cleavage and other "private" body parts, and copy that looks like site content.
- This Way to the Web, Print Designers!
- The ratio of constraints to possibilities is far less kind in digital media.
- The YouTube Aesthetic
- It’s almost like we’re a research and development laboratory for our own bamboozlement.
- Five things all clients want to know
- Most clients don’t want a sales pitch, they want reassurance.
- E-mail is not a platform for design
- [HTML e-mail] appeals to the kind of designer who thinks everything, even a bullet hurtling toward his own skull, would improve if decorated.
- How to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Internet
- What should concern us is not that we can’t take what we read on the internet on trust… but that we ever got into the dangerous habit of believing what we read in the newspapers or saw on the TV.
- Cult of the Pundit
- Really great stuff is rare.
- Why Simplicity Is Essential to Web Design
- We simply don't have time to waste on complex navigation, convoluted language, or the vanity publishing of navel-gazing organizations.
- The Hidden Lives of MySpacers
- "He un-friended me.”
- How Aggregate Displays Change User Behavior
- Early leaders tend to stay in the lead simply because people see they are leading.
- 10 Newspaper Myths Deconstructed
- Change or die.
- HTML Design Principles (Proposed)
- 16 principles for a better web. Just like the Ten Commandments, except it's a wiki.
- Sometimes I hate web standards evangelists
- Target equals blank? What is this, 1995?
- Flickr Creative Commons Search
- Free photos, essentially, offered in various licensing flavors. Cool.
- Introducing the Book
- What seems to be the problem?
- Embrace, Extend, Extinguish
- 2. [Create]… interoperability problems for customers who try to remain neutral.
- 8 Reasons Why the Masses Love Lists
- People like seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, even before they start through it.
- Speakers and a microphone
- You need to be on a planet with atmosphere, and not, say, drifting in space. Sound doesn’t travel in space. Everybody knows that.
- WrongRoom
- It's like a Biblical lineage of silliness.
- Microsoft takes email design back 5 years
- This really is a game changer.
- Real Empires Ship
- Their version of Getting Things Done would be one word: “slaves.”
- Choices = Headaches
- Every time you want to leave your computer, you have to choose between nine options.
- MySpace: The Modern Day Pee-Chee
- To be unique… just like everyone else.
- Unmixed
- My web will continue to be about good writing and good design.
- Stop Fighting Your Distractions
- That's your problem, surely—a system.
- Cheap
- Shiny happy people.
- Web 3.0
- It's only castles burning.
- CSS for Bar Graphs
- 99% brilliant.
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