Posts from 2006 (Page 8)

233 posts from 2006

Oct 10, 2006
Design

Create color palettes from your photos

I just ran across a cool web application that generates a two color palettes (one “dull” and one “vibrant”) from any photo that you submit to it. Seems like it could be quite handy. (via etc.)

Oct 10, 2006

Google?

I’m a bit perplexed as to what’s going on at Google right now. Less than two months ago, Marissa blogged about changes to the Google homepage, including the addition of Google Video to the main bar. The rumormill spun up to state very loudly that...

Oct 09, 2006
Windows Forms

Color Pickers

I needed a color picker control for a project I’m working on in my free time (which I hope will see the light of day in the next week or two!). I ran across a couple very nice-looking ones during a cursory search. Hopefully they’ll prove useful to...

Oct 08, 2006
Cocoa

Make Your Cocoa App a Little More Consistent

One of my biggest beefs with Apple is the amount of time and energy they expend on the ‘you must follow the Apple Ux Guidelines’ mantra, followed by releasing applications that look nothing look their own guidelines. What this ends up meaning to y...

Oct 06, 2006
Ui Design

An interactive interaction design conversation

Dan Saffer, a Senior Interaction Designer at Adaptive Path, is the guest of the latest conversation on the Inkwell.vue. Dan recently released a book entitled Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices. I haven’t had ...

Oct 06, 2006
Interior Design

Ten cool places to work

Positive Sharing discussed ten really cool workplaces yesterday, ranging from Pixar with their individually styled ‘huts,’ to Red Bull London with a series of slides to transport you between different floors. A Flickr feed with all of the pictures...

Oct 06, 2006
Usability

Usability Glossary

I found a snazzy glossary of usability terms by way of Nikki Chau. It contains over a thousand entries on everything from accessibility aids to WIMP interface.

Oct 05, 2006
Marketing

Reach out and touch someone

I’ve tossed this post into the marketing category, but it’s really anything but. Marketing, to me, implies a deeply impersonal one-to-many relationship. Blogs, coupled with websites like Technorati, give you the ability to manage one-to-one relati...

Oct 04, 2006
Accessibility

Blind Programming

Want to know how blind developers really work? Ask them. Sign up for the Blind Programming mailing list. Although I certainly do not speak for that community, the people I’ve spoken to have always appreciated knowing that the people creating devel...