Late to the party, I know, but it's worth pointing this out, as an addendum to previous ranting. hoverIntent is a jQuery plugin that replaces the standard on/off hover switch with a delay, triggering...
How can we close the perceptional gap that lies between two dimensional maps and the surrounding three dimensional reality? Enkin is a technology aimed at the Google Android platform that...
Many of us are still conditioned to think of design frameworks in terms of grid systems, Swiss graphic design, and rigid corporate identity systems. The problems with these are similar to the problems...
Jason Santa Maria's Good Design Ain't Easy was one of the most interesting sessions for me, digging into a topic that I've been through so many arguments over in the past. It may have been old news...
So I've started another website, a kind of ongoing accident, with the idea echoing so intensely during Webstock as I culled together my 8x5 presentation, it just seemed to burst out of my brain and...
Origami has expanded far beyond its origins in step by step folding patterns. These Crease Patterns are designed to be one-step transforms from flat paper into the finished shape. Even though the...
As languages change, so do typefaces. These changes are not radical; they are subtle evolutions that address culture and technology. Modern typography requires modern typefaces, designed by the...
Really? I expected better from such a radical thinker as Jaron Lanier. His recent op-ed in the NYT is just not making any sense at all. Traditionally, artists, writers, musicians have been at...
In a 1950 editorial the "New Zealand Design Review" identified the "horrible forces ranged against good design" as Indifference, Cheapness First, Unnecessary Novelty, Mass Production, De Luxe...
It gets tiresome when every time someone publishes an article about this issue, a stream of misogynistic trolls start babbling and complaining. You fucking assholes are just proving the point...
Wellington based startup Ponoko went public today, in conjunction with the TechCrunch event in San Francisco. Some of you may have seen bits and pieces at the Dowse recently, or even come across...
Since Ali posted 20 things I learned at FullCodePress, I thought I'd chime in with my own observations from the perspective of being programmer for the Code Blacks: Working side by side is...
In Hearing without listening, 37Signals screws up, then admits what they did wrong and how they fixed it. In the end, it's just a matter of several weeks downtime before the application is working...
Raganwald dissects the misguided metaphor from a software process perspective. I have come to believe that these kinds of problems are even more prevalent in the web development world than in...
Treemaps emerged in the mid 90's as a method of visualizing heirachies, and have since been widely used throughout the software design community. But very little work is out there exploring visualizations...
Grant has been doing some great stuff over at Xero, with an account balance view that enables fluid browsing of the time range by adjusting the width of the scroller control. This is a good technique ...
This technique been mentioned in passing for a couple of years now, and recently seems to be gaining a fair amount of attention. Many web designers love the idea of building dropdowns like this....
The games industry has come to a crossroads, something that is becoming more and more apparent as I engage deeper into research for my upcoming game (more on that soon). The Guardian Games Blog has...
Our formal attempts at understanding language tend to be hierachically structured, but when it comes to actually organizing language, it is well known that meaning is relational and constantly fluctuates....
The key concept that underlies the modern web is the separation of presentation and structure, and recently, there has been a lot of interest in documenting the synthesis of human friendly and...
The web design class that I've been teaching in the Fashion and Textiles Department at Massey is finally finished, and what's more, we've put the portfolios online for all to see at crafty.coretxt.net.nz These...
Wireframes or schematics (also known as "paper prototypes") are a common way to create a mock up of a user interface. In the best case, they can function in a similar...
It's good in Wellington at the moment. I'm just glad that I am going to be able to sleep this weekend (unlike those about to unleash the 48 Hours!). But there's a lot going...
So Te Ara is finally live, and I'm immensely proud of having been involved in the design process, primarily the development of the CSS/Javascript system, the lower level content pages and the...
Was lucky enough today to attend a talk by Ben Bederson, who presented his work on Interfaces for Staying in the Flow, and examples of software that he has developed ...
This site is written in HTML and rendered in CSS + Javascript. The layout is heavily inspired by the geometric design experiments at the Bauhaus in the mid 1920s, but with a...
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➔ Jon Udell: Envisioning information
➔ Ask E.T.: Sparklines or Wordgraphs--some draft pages from Beautiful Evidence
➔ Abecedaria: The Ideographic Myth
➔ Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages?
➔ Ludonauts - Girls as game designers: what choices do they make?
➔ How Websites Learn | Acts of Volition
➔ hesketh.com/inc: Progressive? Enhancement? Paving? Way? for? Future
➔ Architect The Negative Space
➔ Design Observer: On (Design) Bullshit
➔ An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth
➔ David Siegel - The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it
➔ The Application of Weblike Design to Data: Designing Data for Reuse
➔ X-RATED - Adult movie posters of the 60s and 70s
➔ Social Design Notes: The Art of the FBI
➔ CoFactors » Blog Archive » Net Rage: A Study of Blogs and Usability
➔ Dryden Research Aircraft Graphics Gallery
➔ Poynter Online - The Next Big Thing in Online Type
➔ AIGA - Specialization and design
➔ Web Interface Design Tip: The Yellow Fade Technique (Signal vs. Noise)
➔ Software is too expensive to build cheaply...: If Architects Had To Work Like Web Designers...
