April 2010
45 posts
WatchPut This On, Episode 2: Shoes
WatchConey Island Dream
gfxCardStatus: menu bar gpu status monitor for os... →
Super useful little app that sits in the menu bar and displays what graphics card the new 2010 Macbook Pro is using (integrated or discrete). It turns out any application that uses Core Animation…
HTML5 presentation →
Nice overview of what’s possible (and soon to be possible) with the new HTML5 and CSS3 goodness.
Man At Very Top Of Food Chain Chooses Bugles →
Bravo.
Redesigning the Boarding Pass - Journal - Boarding... →
Design exploration of the lowly boarding pass. Very nice. (via @madhava)
jQuery Masonry →
“Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then…
ABtests.com - Share A/B Testing Results. Improve... →
Super neato web site that lets you read the results from other people’s A/B testing, and post your own.
CSSDesk - Dynamic CSS Sandbox →
Perfect if you need to hack on some code quickly.
CSS selector specificity and complexity in... →
An academic, thorough overview of the CSS cascade.
News, sport, weather, TV & radio - sensible BBC... →
Martin Belam does a rather nice in-depth case study of the new BBC top navigation bar.
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods →
The National Agenda - NYTimes.com →
The Grey Lady profiles the always awesome The National.
WatchTimescapes: “Death is the Road to Awe”
That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger -... →
I heard this story on Radio Lab. It’s a stunner.
“I wonder if when we look back at this month of iPad if we’ll think what an...”
– Parka (Ftrain.com)
Ubiquitous Service Design →
Peter Morville offers some ideas and thoughts on ubiquitous computing and the new world of user experience design.
"Service Blueprint" - Flickr: Search →
Nice collection of diagrams that chart the relationship between products, services, people, and their environments. (via http://semanticstudios.com/)
Pervasive Information Architecture →
New book that “presents an holistic, heuristics- and methodology-driven approach to information architecture and user experience for the design of ubiquitous ecologies, emergent systems where old and…
Beautifully Banal →
“The Type Directors Club has asked these designers to find a classified/personal newspaper ad from their local community to âhijackâ typographically.”
Watch“The Last 3 Minutes” From Shane Hurlbut, ASC
The Essential Pantry - Cooks Illustrated →
What foodstuffs you should always have on hand. (might be behind a paywall - sorry)
WatchThe Cat With Hands
YouTube - MrMorgansOrgans's Channel →
Lots of very eerie, incredibly well done films to ruin your dreams. Evocative of the Brothers Quay, with a healthy dose of Cronenberg’s fascination with the body.
The Technium: How to Thrive Among Pirates →
“I was in China, in part, to answer this simple question: how does the China film industry continue to produce films in a land where everything seems to be pirated?”
iPad orientation demo →
“For the most part, Mobile Safari on the iPad is the same as that on the iPhone. One difference that I’ve found is that Webkit on the iPad honors CSS media query declarations based on orientation.”
“We’ve heard criticisms that user experience is just “change for change’s sake,”...”
– Great post by Jennifer Boriss on the design process: That Pesky Design Process
The Collapse of Complex Business Models « Clay... →
WatchDeep Focus
“I felt for those guys. Each one pouring out his heart, projecting his hopes onto...”
– A real person, a lot like you | Derek Sivers
“Simplicity has a purpose, and complexity - “hackability” is just a...”
– An Entirely Other Day: Making the Future