“Mel needs a big wet sloppy kiss.”Aaron, resorting to sheer affection in the face of news that IE 6 may someday be retired here at Church Headquarters. Aaron later agreed to settle for a “knuckle bump” if Michelle would name her first born “Mozilla”.
“There’s a very thin lineGraphic designer David Carson,
between simple and clean and powerful
and simple and clean and boring.”
“Companies and organizations still can’t explain what they do in one paragraph.”Jakob Nielsen on the ubiquitous but often uninformative “About Us” page.
Microsoft and Nokia are adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. “This means that jQuery will be distributed with Visual Studio (which will include jQuery intellisense, snippets, examples, and documentation).... This [also] means that jQuery will be distributed on all Nokia phones that include the [WebKit-based] web run-time.”
Beautiful website: Kathleen Edwards. I love how the page “turns”. Music is great, too. Designed by Expo Cooperative.
“We all have talents and gifts, everyone of us. The bounds of creativity extends far beyond the limits of a canvas or a sheet of paper and do not require a brush, a pen or the keys of a piano.”President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, on creativity in tonight’s General Relief Society Broadcast.
“I’m just a Wanna-Bea.”Todd, describing his new role in trying to take up the slack left by Bea’s imminent departure for a well-earned sabbatical. Bea, you will be missed! (For old times’ sake, here’s a list of all the great thoughts and images Bea has posted on Northtemple.)
The perfect use of a pie chart.
Hattip: Information aesthetics
A slide from Daniel Burka’s April 2008 Future of Web Design presentation, called “Iteration & You”, and it looks like a good deck of inspiring slides (except for the Cameron one).
Just found this: Design & Emotion Conference. Wow.I wish I could go.
The Back of the Napkin by Dan Roam argues that visual thinking is one of the most effective ways to “tackle tough business problems.” (Video ‘C’ on the home page is particularly interesting.)
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This is my new favorite site as of late. The design of the site itself is not terribly impressive, but the content is fantastic. Great design inspiration.
“Don’t make something unless it is both necessary and useful; but if it is both necessary and useful, don’t hesitate to make it beautiful.”Shaker design philosophy (via Joshua Porter)
Looking for some inspiration today, and hoping you guys can help me out. I’m looking for websites that make extensive use of color. Non-white, full color websites that buck the NY Times or Apple (or Northtemple) clean but sterile style of black type on white background.
What are your favorite colorful sites?
One of the secrets of going from good to great: just do it. Over and over and over.
“I get this. My view is … why say, ever, anything bad about a person? Why don’t we like them and celebrate them and be happy for her elevation to the ticket? And just say that she was a good choice for him and we disagree with them?”Bill Clinton, on the appeal of Sarah Palin.
Jared Spool has written a great article on what goes into a well-done critique . We have several design team reviews each month, plus many additional reviews with customers and stakeholders on specific projects. The points reviewed here about respect, design ownership, and tact are highly relevant to both kinds of reviews.
Beautiful skull rings. They actually don’t look like Hot Topic, Jason.
“If it ain’t broke, you’re not trying hard enough.”Seen on a QA engineer’s whiteboard today