May 8 2009
Lead Pipe +
Andy Clarke details the problem with CSS font stacks and line-height. This problem has been known to me for sometime and it doesn’t look like we’re going to get a solution anytime soon. This is why the current best practice is to specify fonts in the font stack that are of similar shape and size.
May 7 2009
Zeldman: In Defense of the Low-Fiber Tweet +
Hear hear!
May 6 2009
Designing Effective Mobile Interfaces +
Audio from Meagan Fisher’s FOWD talk on mobile design. See, Meagan, I told you.
EE Code Tees +
Love it. EE nerds rejoice!
A Fighting Logo +
I do not envy the task that the designers of this mark had. A very tricky topic to design for and they did a marvelous job.
May 1 2009
Renaud For The Win +
Jim launches his new personal website & blog.
April 27 2009
Mozilla Creative Collective
The Mozilla Creative Collective “will be the online home for Mozilla’s visual design community,” and Airbag Industries is on the case! In the spirit of the Mozilla Foundation’s mission, the design has been posted online to get feedback from the community. More information at Into The Fuzz.
April 10 2009
Dear Designer, You Suck +
I agree that we need an independent body of design critics to remain objective, but I’m doubtful that there every will be any significant movement towards such a body.
March 31 2009
My Life So Far +
A photoset by Jeffrey Zeldman.
March 30 2009
Reflections on Layer Tennis +
Excellent write up from Jason Santa Maria regarding his recent Layer Tennis match with Derek Powazek.
MLB.com At Bat for iPhone +
The 2009 season cannot get here fast enough.
March 24 2009
Tweeeeet Design +
An aggregation of design-related twitter feeds.
March 23 2009
March 20 2009
Goodbye Google +
I was hoping Doug would be able to infuse some style into Google. But now, I’m just glad he is moving on. Hopefully to to a place where his talents will be appreciated. Good luck, Doug!
Designing Firefox 3.2 +
“Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, asked me what I think a new tab should look like. The answer after days of mailing back and forth: ‘Forget tabs!’” I agree, browser makers should start to look past the Tabs and at other solutions to solve organization problems.
The Revival +
Valet does a write up on the Baracuta. I want one.
March 19 2009
Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Launches at Today +
Forgive me if I don’t seem more excited.
March 18 2009
Fire the AIG Management +
What should have happened is that AIG should have been allowed to fail. If you’re looking for punishment for incompetence and incentives for success, it doesn’t get much better than that.
March 10 2009
Jakob Nielson’s Kindle 2 Review +
I wish the Kindle2 would sync with NetNewsWire. Reading blogs on this would drastically help my declining eyesight.