All Blog Posts (Page 58)

Oct 30, 2006
Apple

Emerging Fully Formed from Steve Jobs’ Forehead

Steven Levy has one of the most sycophantic and interesting articles about the iPod I’ve ever read up on Wired this month. The article sheds light on a number of interesting and new-to-me aspects of the iPod’s creation, like this anecdote about po...

Oct 29, 2006

Letterman rocks

You're trying to put words in my mouth just the way you put artificial facts in your head. Crooks and Liars has the Letterman interview of Bill O’Reilly up. Good stuff.

Oct 29, 2006
Web Design

HTML to be incrementally improved

Apparently, the W3C just isn’t getting enough uptake on XHTML, because it’s simply too hard to shove people in the right direction: The attempt to get the world to switch to XML, including quotes around attribute values and slashes in empty tags a...

Oct 29, 2006
Windows Mobile

Flash Lite 2.1 Preview for Windows Mobile 5

Apparently, I’m late to get on the bandwagon, but I just found out that Adobe released a preview of Flash Lite 2.1 for Windows Mobile 5 last month. I think this is a pretty big deal. With this, you’re now able able to deploy Flash content on Symbi...

Oct 28, 2006
UI Design

Unexpected value in paper prototyping

Jan Miksovsky talks about unexpected value found in ‘crude’ prototyping: A counter-intuitive principle of soliciting early design feedback is that people reviewing a highly polished design may concentrate on superficial details and overlook fundam...

Oct 28, 2006

Cheer up, emo kid!

I dyed my hair black for halloween earlier today. I also bought black eyeliner and the world’s ugliest button up sweater. I am, god’s word, being an emo kid for halloween. In a few minutes, I am going to wander over to QFC and buy a six pack of PB...

Oct 27, 2006
Windows

The other 90%

One of my favorite adages in software development is that the first 90% of your project takes 90% of the time; The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time (my other favorite is “time, quality, features: pick two”). I discovered this firsthand a l...

Oct 26, 2006
Innovation

Six years, one face

A guy I work with just forwarded this onto me. It’s a bit outside the scope of “UI Design,” but still interesting. Noah Kalina has taken pictures of himself everyday for the past six years, every one of which is archived on his website and also in...

Oct 25, 2006
Accessibility

Suing for Accessible Surfing

From the Associated Press: Last month a federal judge in California allowed the [National Federation for the Blind's] case [suing Target Corp. for an accessible web site] to proceed, rejecting Target's argument that its Web site wasn't subject to ...

Oct 25, 2006
Web Design

A poorly debugged set of device drivers

Proving once again that black is the new pink is the new bell bottoms, Don Dodge today links Om Malik, who states that: The browser is the new OS. Yes, we've heard this before, and if you're quietly groaning right about now, I can understand why.....