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The Problem with the iPhone's Home Button
When I posted the link to Andrew Durdin 's visual guide to the iPhone's home button , a number of people sent me messages that basically said "I don't see the problem".
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Edward Tufte's "Slopegraphs"
Charlie Park believes in you.
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User testing in the wild: he has never used a computer
This past Friday, I went to Westfield Mall in San Francisco to conduct user tests on how people browse the web, and especially how (or if) they use tabs. This was part of a larger investigation som…
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Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews
A confusing startup screen that offends existing subscribers dooms The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app to low ratings.
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The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped
In an essay titled "The Capacitive Button Cult Must Be Stopped" , Jon Bell writes:
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Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)
84 GUI icons created with CSS
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Google Introducing New Visual Design Across All Products
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Designing GitHub for Mac
An analysis of my process.
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Apple R&D (1989): Mousing is faster than keyboarding, but users don't believe it
Originally published in the AppleDirect, August, 1989 Republished as Chapter 6, in Tog on Interface
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Top Programming Fonts
Technologist, podcaster, and inventor. Founder of the 5by5 podcast network and Fireside.
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Treatise on Font Rasterisation
Font rasterisation is, in the author’s opinion, one of the most interesting fields of computer science. If music is the subjective application of physics, then font rasterisation is almost certainly the subjective application of computer science. The purpose of this article is threefold: firstly, to provide an…
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Ridiculous Things To Do With CSS3 Box Shadows
Box-shadow is a pretty powerful property in modern browsers. With just six little values, you can make some really neat stuff. How much neat stuff, you ask? To find out, I set a little time aside each day to play with it. The result is 39 ridiculous little experiments that, due to whatever issues, can only be viewed…
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Visualizing Time with the Infinity Hour Chart
This is another experiment in visualizing 24-hour cyclical data. My last post explored a method of linear representation (the Double Time Bar Chart). Linear representations have problems when it comes to showing the cyclical nature of time data (ie there is no start or end of a 24 hour cycle). Inspiration When trying…
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Your taste is why your work disappoints you.
I love this observation about taste and creative work from Ira Glass: Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do cr
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A minimalistic desk to handle cables and electronic clutter elegantly
Bookmark Tweet I wanted a desk that could elegantly handle (2) computers and its peripherals (3 displays, 4 external hard drives, tens of cables ). I...
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