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16/07/08
Business Week, with the help of Don Norman, John Maeda, Khoi Vinh and Jeffrey Zeldman among others, just published an excellent article with the 10 commandments of web design. Most of them will sound too familiar to you (content is king, flash abuse anyone?), but when Norman, Maeda and peers write ...
30/05/08
How I learnt to love MarsEdit over Ecto and hate TextMate
5 comments Interface + Mac OS + Usability + WordpressI'm writing this on a lobby before a meeting with a client. Thanks to MarsEdit, a nifty desktop blogging app, I can write this while I'm offline and worry later about publishing this post. Nothing new actually, as I had been using Ecto previously. But somehow, with the improvements to the ...
02/02/08
Piclens: Image viewing plugin for Firefox with a cinematic interface
2 comments Interface + Photography + UsabilityVia Criterion I discover Piclens, a new plugin for Firefox (Mac & Win) and Safari that allows you to browse images on the web full screen with an advanced cinematic interface. It just blew me away when I fired it up while in my Flickr account. Heres one of my Flickr ...
Here's the error Twitter spits out right now. Cool design as long as you don't see it too often.
21/12/07
Wii remote: Redefining Human Computer Interaction
No comments Games + Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?If you thought that the spring horse + Wii Remote + Need For Speed was the coolest thing you ever saw on videogames wait until you see this. Via hackaday.com I land on Johnny Chung Lee's website and a brave (and cheap) new world opens before me. In his page he has ...
12/12/07
Extending the Wii: Need For Speed + Spring Horse
One comment Games + Interface + Usability + Why didn't I think of that?Reading X de Xavier's post about using the Wii remote to enable disabled people to interact with computers, I remembered a video of a boy using a spring horse and a Wii remote to play Need For Speed. Yet another case of popular use of tecnology that it's creators never foresaw.
In my previous post I talked briefly about fair use of flash in websites and this led me to review an old article entlitled Flash is Evil written in 1999. I remember reading it when it came out and I couldn't agree more with the author. The article reviewed in ...
08/12/07
Three things you (probably) don’t know about the iPhone
No comments Apple + Interface + Typography + UsabilityBy now, everything has been written, reviewed, praised and criticized about Apple's iPhone. But there's three features that don't hit the highlights too often. Helvetica everywhere!!! Yes, Helvetica is the font for the iPhone. No Verdana nor pixel fonts but plain old Helvetica in decent readable sizes of up to 20px ...
21/06/07
ADG-FAD do they know that the web is not made out of paper?
3 comments Barcelona + Design + Interface + UsabilityThis is the website of ADG-FAD, Art Directors and Graphic Designers Association from Spain. Aren't designers supposed to know how to design a website? Check it for yourself www.adg-fad.org Some "killer" features of this website: No DOCTYPE at the beginning of the documentPage is laid out using Tables!!Some parts of the are ...
22/02/07
Tomski: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles
One comment Design + Interface + Radio + TV + Usability + Web 2.0Reading Kosmar's blog I found a link to The BBC's Fifteen Web Principles. With such an appealing title I couldn't help clicking on it, only to land on Tomski's website, a blog about traditional and new media with particular attention to the BBC, Tomki's employer. As Tomski puts it: Required verbage: ...
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