Apple HTML5 Showcase

June 4, 2010
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Apple has added a showcase of HTML5 functionality on their site. It’s a pretty impressive display. However, you’re limited to Safari for viewing options. As HTML5 continues to get rolled out as a standard, creating rich web experiences will get a whole lot easier. I just hope that the uncomfortable period [...]

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Weekly Wordle: Safety Dance

June 3, 2010
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This week’s Weekly Wordle is based on Safety Dance by Men Without Hats.
Create your own at Wordle.net.

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Back to the Apps

June 3, 2010
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A friend of mine is co-owner of an iPad. That’s right, he shares it with a friend. While he doesn’t have primary custody, he got naming rights and calls it “Paddington.” Even though I called him a 12 year old girl, he offered to lend the iPad to me for a few [...]

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Opera is faster than a potato

May 28, 2010

Opera’s pretty funny take on the Google speed test videos.

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Weekly Wordle: Prufrock

May 28, 2010
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Created at Wordle.com
Wordle is an application for creating beautiful word clouds. This week’s Wordle is based on T S Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.”

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Prediction: Facebook will sell you back your privacy

May 26, 2010
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Facebook today altered their privacy settings to tame what they called “something of a Frankenstein monster” of a privacy control panel. Facebook’s claim is that the way new features had been added caused the number of privacy setting checkboxes to grow like weeds. That may be true.
However, Facebook also leaned on a phenomenon [...]

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HTML5 & CSS3 Readiness

May 13, 2010
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This afternoon, a friend of mine posted a link to the HTML5 Readiness visualization. I am a bit smitten with this tool – for a number of reasons. It is useful, usable, and compelling. First off, it effectively communicates which browsers are capable of which “new world features.” You can use [...]

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Design Traceability

April 23, 2010
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Kids are notorious for asking “Why?”  Each answer you provide leads to another “why.”  Each exchange leads closer to some central truth.  With kids, that central truth usually ends up being, “Because I said so!”  To designers, business stakeholders are also notorious.  Not so much for asking why as they are for saying, “I think [...]

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Design Science

April 8, 2010
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My grandfather told me a story (perhaps apocryphal) of a final exam he took in a college Philosophy class. As he told it, the professor walked in, grabbed the chalk, and wrote “WHY?” in big letters on the board. He then sat down without saying a word and began waiting for the students [...]

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Following Function

March 24, 2010
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Smashing Magazine has a good article written by Steven Bradley examining web design through the Bauhaus lens of “form follows function.” He first gives a pretty good summary of the history of Bauhaus and the evolution of its principles, then turns his attention to interpreting the validity of form following function. Unfortunately, [...]

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