I suppose this won’t come as a shock to many people, but it’s always nice to hear messages like this reiterated by people outside of the Ux community. Dharmesh Shah, author of OnStartups, posted an article today about seven key insights in selling...
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...
I’ll be at Seattle Mind Camp this year. Will you? What happens when you put 250 of Seattle's smartest geeks in a creative environment for 24 hours? We're not sure either, but we'd like to find out. It's time to meet and connect with those involved...
I just found a reasonably interesting article on designing for that “Web 2.0 look and feel”. The author sums up the basics of ca. 2006 web design as: * Simple layout * Centered orientation * 3D effects, used sparingly * S...
A while back my dev lead, Paul, pointed out to me that all of the new signage going up inside of Microsoft was printed in Segoe, the new Windows Vista font. I might not have ever noticed this had he not pointed it out. Naturally, when I heard abou...
I went looking for a concise guide to all of the default Windows system colors at work on Friday, but couldn’t find one anywhere. So…I decided to create my own. The table below shows you what the default values are for Windows’ system color palett...
‘Dirty’ Diana Eng, a contestant from Season 2 of Project Runway, and two other women, Emily Albinski and Audrey Roy, neither of whom I have a crush on, took the top prize at Yahoo’s Hack Day ‘06 with their Blogging in Motion project, which combine...
OK, I gotta admit it: I really do like Cozi Central. If it wasn’t for the fact that I am a single male, aged 24, I would be using this thing non-stop. Unfortunately(?), I have no wife and no kids. Whew. Maybe that’s not such a bad thing after all....
In retrospect, you can always say to yourself: “yep, that’s the exact point in time where everything changed.” Hindsight is 20/20, especially when you’re examining massive changes in your life. What’s really tricky is spotting them before they’ve ...
I wanted to share a fantastic blog posting on accessibility that I just found by way of Coding Horror. As part of Michael Hunter’s DDJ blogging series entitled “YOU ARE NOT DONE YET,” Michael posted a great list of accessibility scenarios that sho...