July 2011
1 post
Do UX teams require new skills for Content... →
Content Strategy, Service Design, and Lean UX. These are what I call special collections of skills. Let me explain.
We’ve identified a bunch of skills that make up user experience design.
March 2011
1 post
Countdown to the end of Internet Explorer 6 →
If you’ve ever designed for the Web, you know what a pain it is to get your work to look right in Internet Explorer 6. It’s outdated, and it’s not standards compliant, so a design that…
February 2011
3 posts
Nanobots →
What do you call those hover-revealing... →
Greg wrote:
I’m interested in finding information about “On Object UI”. To me, this term means displaying controls on or near an object after the user has interacted with the object by hovering…
December 2010
2 posts
TSA recommends using sexual predator tactics to... →
TSA regional security director James Marchand advises parents whose kids are upset by TSA groping to make a game of it, a suggestion that alarmed sex-abuse prevention experts, since “Telling a…
Jonathan Coulton's "Shop•Vac" in kinetic type →
Video link. Boing Boing fave Jonathan Coulton had his peppy song “Shop•Vac” given the kinetic type treatment by designer Jarrett Heather. The sheer amount of brand references in the…
November 2010
5 posts
Statistics vs. Stories →
Professor of Mathematics at Temple University, John Allen Paulos describes the differences between statistics and stories:
[T]here is a tension between stories and statistics, and one…
Creating great user experiences takes a... →
“Creating truly great products requires an entire product team to place the needs of users foremost when making product decisions—or even better, a user-centered corporate…
Shared: Clean up your form elements with Formalize... →
Clean up your form elements with Formalize CSS:
A nice lightweight CSS package that makes all of your HTML form elements look cleaner and more consistent across all major browsers.
July 2010
4 posts
Discussion: What are the ingredients to become a... →
Ever asked yourself how you can make more impact on your projects? Instead of reacting to poor product decisions, being in a position to drive real change? To be able to sit with a…
DriveGain iPhone app helps drivers save fuel,... →
Filed under: MPG
When the discussion turns to apps for the iPhone, it’s far easier to think of things that the iPhone can do than it is to come up with a list of stuff that it can’t….
Video: Mobile First! →
The team at LinkedIn has published video from my Mobile First! talk at the LinkedIn Tech Talk series, where I made the case for designing Web applications for mobile platforms before the desktop…
100 greatest movie insults →
Pretty good…except that they forgot Corky St. Clair’s “I hate you and I hate your ass face” from Waiting for Guffman. Tags: best of movies video
June 2010
1 post
What’s this tumblr thing that my iPhone can’t spell?
February 2010
1 post
M 3.8, Illinois →
Shared by Brian
This was about 5 miles from my last townhome in IL.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 09:59:33 UTC Wednesday, February 10, 2010 03:59:33 AM at epicenter
Depth: 5.00 km (3.11 mi)
September 2009
2 posts
Pandora: From Near-Death to Profitability in a... →
Shared by Brian
Love this! A UI that doesn’t feel like work, .… and is rewarding. All software should be so lucky.
I’ve always liked how outspoken Tim Westergren of Pandora is. He’s not one…
SHUT UP →
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These two are dead-ringers for the two cats I live with, short 15 lbs of cat-fat. Mine would rip the closet door off the hinges. Did you ever hear that someone spotted you…
August 2009
4 posts
Would-be collective nouns →
Culled from Twitter, a list of collective nouns that may or may not be in the dictionary. Some favorites: a conspiracy of theorists
an array of geeks
a melancholy of goths
a pratfall of clowns
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Twitter and the telegram →
Shared by Brian
What a great way to pick Web 2.0 company names. Thorn as a negotiation site.
Ben Schott on the similarities between the telegraph and Twitter: The 140-character limit of…
Bobby McFerrin hacks your brain with the... →
Marilyn sez, “Bobby McFerrin uses the pentatonic scale and an audience’s expectations to demonstrate neural programming at the World Science Festival 2009”
World Science Festival 2009:…
July 2009
1 post
Video: augmented reality business card sells... →
Shared by Brian
I have no idea what this would be actually used for, but it sure looks cool.
Does your feeble mind recall those wicked awesome 3D Topps cards from earlier this year?…
June 2009
4 posts
Michael Jackson to be plastinated? →
Shared by Brian
Funny, I just wrote the other day about MJ, wondering how he would continue to entertain the world, even in the afterlife. I can securely say, this qualifies.
According to the…
BlaccuWeather with Ollie Williams - Sunnyvale, CA →
30 Days to a Better Man-Day 8: Start a Journal →
Shared by Brian
Yeah - this tipped it for me. I’ve started a journal. One small page a night. It’s a start…
My grandpa, Bill Hurst, was a journal writer his entire life. His journal…
Car inverter for your cup-holder -- Boing Boing... →
Shared by Brian
This is effing genius.
On BBG, our Rob’s found a very very clever little DC inverter for the car:
Assuming your car has a mug holder, it’s an unexpectedly clever and useful…
April 2009
10 posts
New process generates hydrogen from aluminum alloy... →
Fiberforge® - RMI MOVE →
Rocky Mountain Institute : Abundance By Design →
Fiberforge: Company, Lightweighting Your World →
RechargeIT Blog: Google Co-Funds the Rocky... →
Hydrogen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
Products & Markets - Horizon Fuel Cell... →
VIDEO: Driving a Tesla-powered Smart →
GT | Carbon Capture Strategy Could Lead to... →
BallDroppings →
Shared by Brian
Well. It’s true here as well. As soon as you think you know something well, someone comes out and “adjusts” your reality.
BallDroppings might be the next Line Rider. Or maybe…
December 2008
4 posts
Strings forte, please. →
Strings forte, please.
nd next da flutz.
picture: Snarla. lol caption: katmandude
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Saddleback Leather Company Man Bag Giveaway →
Shared by Brian
I carry a man bag. You got something to say…!!!?!
For centuries, men have used bags to carry their stuff. Cavemen used manly leather satchels to hold all their caveman…
Rachel's Gypsy Wagon →
Daphne's Caravans ::: Magical Retreats ::: →
November 2008
5 posts
Trinity Rescue Kit | CPR for your computer →
The Official ImgBurn Website →
Ordia Solutions and Defywire Launch Integrated... →
Overparenting →
Shared by Brian
Funny, I don’t usually get parenting topical items in my blog feed, but here was one that came in today. I’d say we do share a value for our kids that reads, “don’t raise a…
I miss albumn covers
I think other people do too. Look what some fools do with theirs! Open an external slideshow - in case the embedded one doesn’t work for you.
It’s kind of a fun thing to run in the background on a lazy friday :)
September 2008
14 posts
Chinese Say They're Building 'Impossible' Space... →
I read this article, and then down into the comments, stopping when someone quoted from a FAQ somewhere. Well, with an answer like this, I guess “frequently” is a relative term. Almost as fun as the airplane on a conveyor belt, but not quite.
“Q. Why does the net force not get balanced out by the axial component of the sidewall force? A. The net force is not balanced out by...
Subprime mortgage primer -- online comic →
When stuff gets complicated, I rely on profanity-spewing stick figures to explain it to me in terms I can understand. This 45-page online comic explains the subprime mortgage mess in about 2…