Sunday ~ May 11, 2008
Google Moms
Though it’s not very explicit, this apears to be a tribute to the mothers of some of the Google team, complete with 8-9 dozen portaits and such classic quotes as, “Don’t make those faces—your face will freeze like that” and “Don’t put that in your mouth; you don’t know where it’s been!”
Good idea, Google—wish we’d a thought of it… Maybe next year!
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Saturday ~ May 10, 2008
Sweet status ui at Dominos. My pizzas are baking now. Good web design just won some more business.
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No post here.
Friday ~ May 9, 2008
Thursday ~ May 8, 2008
Return of the Search Logs
A funny thing happened on the way to the search engine… Our latest batch of interesting North Temple search hits: Read more...
Revixio, creators of CorePage, inspired and informed by Getting Real. I still think there’s lots we can learn from Getting Real.
Wednesday ~ May 7, 2008
How to make a Dadaist poem, or tweet for that matter.
Tuesday ~ May 6, 2008
And no, it’s not pronounced “Mole.” It’s more like “Mall” (Also available, BTW.)
Rob just noted, cameronmole.com is available..
Information Design Patterns provides a comprehensive and rich resource. via (The Sweeting)
Ironically, I hit the Delete key almost before the title of Jakob Nielsen’s latest alert box registered on my consciousness: How Little Do Users Read?
Monday ~ May 5, 2008
Web Form Design, rad new book by Luke W, ordered today. Also see the Flickr photoset with book illustrations.
Google Maps registered the fall of a kid on a bike, this made my day.
Thanks to googlesightseeing.com for this post.
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While browsing the web I ran into the University of Hawaii Library site where they show a series of pamphlets for children on the history of Mexico, commissioned by Maucci Brothers (a Spanish publisher) in 1900 to Jose Guadalupe Posada (a Mexican engraver and illustrator).
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i feel dirty every time i use ”!important” in a css file… ~ “Bobthecow” on Twitter
Being the only Mexican in the IxD group I felt the responsibility to provide some information (links) on Cinco de Mayo:
www.olvera-street.com/html/cinco_de_mayo.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo
Viva Mexico!
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Robert J. Blolesta’s Value Pac.
Alphabet made of raw hamburger. Each character hand-shaped, packaged, and photographed individually.
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This one’s on me. ~ Trent Reznor, giving away his latest album The Slip, available now for free on nin.com
Sunday ~ May 4, 2008
People as pixels.
My daughter is one of the cute yellow dots in the lower right corner in this photo of this year’s Hope of America showcase in Provo. Some neat moments from this year’s performance, both in terms of the patriotic message and the visual experience. Amazing what you can do with 7000 enthusiastic fifth graders with flashlights and synchronized arm movements!
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Thursday ~ May 1, 2008
An airline safety video I may actually pay attention to.
text vs font in CSS properties
A question came up today that when floated around to a few people we didn’t have a good answer, so I thought I’d toss it out to the interwebs. Is there any rhyme or reason for the separation of CSS properties that start with FONT and those that start with TEXT (including a few others like color, line-height, etc). For reference here is W3C’s pages on font and text. Read more...
Wednesday ~ April 30, 2008
The Most Important Skill
About a week ago, the following question was asked by one of our designers: “What is the one skill that can make the most positive impacts in your profession?” Read more...
A screen from this morning’s live testing of a mobile web app we’re currently developing. (Sorry, can’t give any details yet.)
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Tuesday ~ April 29, 2008
I love this video experience on Nike’s Football site. Also, click on this “Take it to the Next Level” video from their homepage.
Aaron Barker sent me a great article on ARIA and how it can be used to make AJAX apps more accessible. I expect that as the standard evolves, it will do great things for improving the accessibility of the richer web applications.
The ampersand. “Though it feels like a modern appendix to our ancient alphabet, the ampersand is considerably older than many of the letters that we use today…. As both its function and form suggest, the ampersand is a written contraction of ‘et,’ the Latin word for ‘and.’”
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Cathedral Cove, New Zealand.
My mom just sent this to me; the figure in the distant center is my brother, taking a breathtaking photo of his own. My parents return home from their mission in June, having served for 18 months.
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