I was just reading a truly bizarre (yet oddly heartwarming) story on MSNBC about how a deaf mother dolphin and her newborn calf are getting along at a marine mammal rehabilitation center in the Florida Keys, but I was terribly disheartened to disc...
Alright, so I’ll readily admit this has nothing to do with UI Design. Nevertheless, if you’re trying to slog your way through the Ruby on Rails API documentation or official wiki you may be much better served checking on Ryan Raaum’s excellent pri...
I just found a wonderfully amusing adaptation of Rocky Horror, as if scripted by lolcatz. Naturally, I decided to wrap it up with a Popfly mashup, which you can see through this link (toucha toucha toucha touch me!). Creating this Popfly mashup wa...
I’ve spent a while today looking over different video websites, and seeing how they go about presenting videos to their users. Some common themes emerge, unsurprisingly, such as the presence of featured videos on the front page (duh). What did sur...
I’m writing specs for our next Popfly iteration at the Starbucks down the street from my apartment, and decided to take a quick break by reading through my email and news feeds (sorry, I can’t tell you what the specs cover). I came across one post...
I have secret inside word that Digg is about to release an update to their site featuring new categories that will help their users find the topics they care about the most that much quicker! Check it out: now you no longer have to go hunting to f...
My boss, John, posted the following a couple hours ago: Well, we saw a lot of people at Maker Faire, but the biggest thing we did was the ducks. Sure we gave a lot of demos, but for every demo we gave we had four kids painting ducks. Here are some...
I just found a ton of great content on learning how to develop for Silverlight on the SL website. It includes the full contents of every Mix’07 session that centered on Silverlight along with a bunch of great how-to screencasts, including one from...
One of the most compelling parts of moving to the Popfly team for me was the opportunity to develop my web design and development skills. I (just like every one of you, I presume) have been hacking around with various web technologies for the bett...
update: i’ve received five requests I’m going to give away invitations to Popfly to the first five people who email me or leave comments telling me what they want to do with the service. Seriously, it’s that easy: just leave me a note saying tha...