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How to pick a company name
Every founder struggles to find a great name for her company; I sure did! In some ways it's important to pick a good name, but in my experience a lot of it isn't as important as some people would have you believe.
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How to get better at UI design
A curated guide to UI and UX design books, courses, pattern libraries, publications, and conferences, with resource recommendations reviewed for 2026.
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Introducing the Ubuntu Font Family to the web
Google and the Ubuntu project have today released the Ubuntu Font Family to the world through the Google Font Directory. The new Ubuntu Fon...
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PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons you can learn from our mistakes
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
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A new kind of volume control
I'm David Friedman , a professional photographer who sometimes gets ideas for photos, designs, gadgets, and other projects. I write about it all on this blog. You can find the meaning behind the name “Ironic Sans” back in the very first post .
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Shoes and software
Yesterday, during an interview with Andrew Warner at Mixergy, I spoke about my early work experience bagging groceries, selling shoes, pumping gas, etc. There’s nothing particularly unique about these jobs – they are common jobs. But they taught me some important lessons about people, h…
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Why I Hate Your Web App
Download Free PNGs & Free PNG images to use for your creative needs. ✓ Millions of high quality free png images ✓ Transparent pngs ✓ New Free PNGs added everyday.
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What happens when it's all glass?
Apple’s design dominance over the past decade has been due to industrial design first, software design second. Their hardware designs have inspired a generation. Over those last 10 years their software has gotten better and better too (it’s really damn good now), but it’s been…
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Restaurant Menu Pricing
Restaurants are great test labs for testing neuromarketing techniques. It's easy to change offerings, menus, and pricing, and one gets immediate feedback on what's working and what's not. Today, many eateries are employing sophisticated menu psychology to maximize sales and profits.
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Edward Tufte: Sparklines: theory and practice
A forum moderated by author and artist Edward Tufte, including discussion and questions dealing with information design.
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Mirrorboard: A one-handed keyboard layout for the lazy
Do you have a wearable computer? Are you interested in alternate keyboard layouts but too lazy to learn Dvorak? Do you masturbate at your desk? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you ma…
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Jef Raskin on "Intuitive Interfaces"
One of the most common terms of praise for an interface is to say that it is "intuitive" (the word should have been "intuitable" but we will bow to convention). Yet the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) literature rarely mentions the word, and for good reason. This note attempts to clarify the meaning of "intuitive"…
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AskTog: A Quiz Designed to Give You Fitts
Fitts' Law, A fundamental principle of interaction design, from AskTog, the Webzine for Computer Professionals, their Family, and Friends