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...
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...
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 ...
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.....
I got back into Seattle last night at 11PM Pacific time. I actually feel pretty good right now, which is surprising given that I was in the air for 17 hours yesterday (ATH to ATL to SEA), and traveling for a total of 24. I’ll be back to a regular ...
So, the guys from 30secondrule.com were apparently sitting around… commenting on how so many people are talking Web 2.0 this and Web 2.0 that, and while so doing these people point out one or a dozen sites or features or hacks, yet it’s still near...
I just found a fantastic blog entry on user experience bingo. Ever seen bullshit bingo? Same thing, except with Ux terms. As the author of these bingo cards, Mark DeHoog, puts it, I seem to hear this cry from so many in many leadership or industry...
Scott Guthrie, the General Manager of the .NET Developer Platform team, has a fantastic video up on the ASP.NET website that demos some of the cool features in the ASP.NET AJAX toolset, formerly known as Atlas. At the risk of sounding sycophantic,...
An article on shell revealed goes into a great deal of depth about why the Windows Vista Aero Basic theme looks the way it does. Why does Aero have a solid 1-pixel black border inside the frame, and Aero Basic doesn't? Because the DWM is ren...
From Greek Island Notes: For some incomprehensible reason, sewer pipes in Greece are of such small calibre that toilet paper invariably clogs them up causing a calamitous backup of sewage. So, instead of being dropped into the pan, used toilet pap...