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Oct 11, 2006
Web Design

Emma starts a Web 2.0 Haters Club - can I join?

Emma Dobrescu, a multilingual Romanian web designer of some repute, expressed her hatred for Web 2.0 on her blog yesterday: I’ll tell you the truth, I’m not an AJAX hater, I don’t despise collaborative applications, I am all for the rich user expe...

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 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 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
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 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
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 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 05, 2006
Meta

Double-fisting with Guiness and tea at the Venture All-Stars Party

I attended the Venture All-Stars party tonight, followed by a trip over to my friend Rachel’s apartment to hang out and catch up. Rachel is a complete “n00b” when it comes to computers, and assumes that being Scobleized is something rather dirty. ...