1
2
3
The Panic Status Board
This is good. But a lot of things happening means a high chance that I, the man who lives and breathes Panic and has a giant status board in my head, might not properly explain everything to everyone. Steve and I realized it was high time we made this Cabel Status Board public… using technology!
4
5
6
7
Battle of the Business Cards
Solutions d'impression haute qualité, écologiques et sur mesure pour les entreprises et particuliers.
8
9
10
11
12
13
Obsessed with putting ink on paper or What's wrong with computer music notation?
LilyPond – Music notation for everyone
14
15
Ubuntu - Getting physical
All the latest news on the design and web team at Canonical.
16
17
18
A bad design is a good reminder
Our new office has a dishwasher. It’s sleek, modern, and silent. It blends into the stainless cabinets and countertops just perfectly. It has the same handle style as the drawers and doors to the left and right. It has no buttons or lights or anything on the outside. You don’t even know…
19
20
21
The Science of Word Recognition
Reviews the history of why psychologists moved from a word shape model of word recognition to a letter recognition model.
22
Computers shouldn't make people feel like idiots
Predictably, some argue the iPad doesn’t do enough. It needs a keyboard or a removable battery or multitasking ability or whatever. But there’s an interesting backlash to that backlash. (Meta-backlash!) The discussion has people openly discussing an ugly truth that doesn’t typi…
23
24
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.
25
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...
26
PNG vs JPG: 6 simple lessons you can learn from our mistakes
Free, preconfigured Linux server images for self-hosting
27
28
29
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…
30
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…