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Jul 24, 2006
Branding

Rebranding Detroit -

Another oldie-but-goodie: BrandChannel.com (which I’m becoming addicted to) published an article back in 2004 about Detroit’s efforts to shed its “toothless and anarchic” image. Detroit had a significant opportunity to pull off an effective, widel...

Jul 23, 2006
Windows

Consistent Dialog Non-Client Areas with Winforms

Even though it receives far less attention than it’s more-malleable sibling, the non-client area of a dialog (the window frame, etc.) is highly configurable with Winforms 2.0. There are several guidelines that you should follow when creating new d...

Jul 23, 2006
Web Design

CSS Listamatic

I found a fun, little page on an Aussie web design site, Max Design that contains a good 50+ CSS-styled horizontal and vertical lists for navigation: http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic

Jul 23, 2006
Flash

Flickr Tag-Based Picture Browser

Felix Turner, a Flash developer at Brightcove, built a super-nifty swirly, spinny “web 2.0-ish” Flickr picture browser that searches upon tags and returns its results in a nifty little UI. Perhaps not mind-blowing, but it is fun, especially the w...

Jul 23, 2006
Apple

The Gold-Standard for UI Guidelines

For as long as I’ve been involved in UI design, I have considered the Apple Human Interface Guidelines to be the gold-standard of User Experience guidelines. They are available on Apple’s developer website, and are well-worth reading, regardless o...