Business, Design
It ain’t cool bud. If you’d like a detailed diatribe on where www came from (Tim Berners–Lee), why it was bought into being and why it is not used by some (notably the folks over at http://no-www.org), then you came to the wrong article. Read »
Design
With care. Thought. Deliberation. Significant gaps between decision made and decision acted on. Read »
Design
Parodying the “Coke is it” saying may be a stupid way to title but there you go. Without a DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) approach the likelihood of content being wrong or time being wasted is significantly increased. Read »
Design, Microsoft, UI
An excellent article by John C. Welch of InformationWeek makes it painfully obvious that there is no contest here. Read »
Design, Navel–gazing
This is so sneaky. I have hidden this writing back in time by editing an earlier post, is that akin to being impolite in company? I suspect so… Read »
Design, Google, RSSness
A little while back I ranted about the Google RSS client. Read »
Design, GMail, Google
Today, Google mail freshened up the look of their mail messages in gmail.
The clean largely text based i/f now sports a little more graphics. When in a thread of emails one is now given options to print, reply etc to a given mail in that thread via a drop down list on the RH side.
Off to go and look at the changes in more depth (what a terrifically exciting life I lead).
CSS, Design
Please comment if you know this filter (okay, partial-filter) is already in use elsewhere so I can go away with my tail between my legs. Or, if you think you know about CSS filters and do not know of this one and suspect I may have discovered it then please comment here to let me know (thanks). Read »
Design
What?
You expected some excellent diagnosis of the benefits or otherwise of each of these?
Sorry. Not today.
Just a quick post to say that I have tried and failed to fall for Backpack calendar and conversely cannot complain about anything in Google calendar - well nothing comes to mind right now, well one thing, but it’s too dull to mention.
App, Design, RSSness
No, not what Starsky says when handing over the local paper to the guy in the passenger seat as they buckle up to attend another 187. An RSS reader. Read »