The Daily Report
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Link ‘n Park
A lifetime’s worth of comic book covers, deep thoughts on ubiquitous digitization, Spool on lessons learned when new features tank, and much more.
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That Busted GIF Feeling
A pesky bug in the iLike sidebar eludes the happy fix.
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ALA 241: better UI, scriptless trick ponies, and the deathly hallows
Unlearn a web interface design convention that causes users grief, and learn how to create a scrolling, fixed/liquid hybrid layout without using JavaScript (not that there’s anything wrong with it).
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Better know a speaker: Dan Cederholm
What’s up with Dan Cederholm these days?
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My Ding-a-Links
Fight for your right to publish. Ponder a Google-Wikipedia mashup, recycle old ipods and cell phones, generate diagonal backgrounds (with or without gradients), study Hitchcock’s visual storytelling techniques, and more.
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It’s a dirty job…
And we hope you’ll take it. Happy Cog Philadelphia seeks a fabulous project manager. Must communicate superbly, value great work and great client relationships, respect deadlines and the creative process, enjoy Basecamp and love Philadelphia.…
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Let there be web divisions
Almost no one who makes websites works in their company or organization’s web division—because almost no company or organization has a web division. That void on the org chart is one reason we have so…
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WCAG Controversy and Human Design
By introducing testability and dumping accessibility criteria that are untestable, WCAG 2.0 may hurt the very people who need it most, argues former working group invited expert Gian Sampson-Wild in an important and timely ALA…
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An Event Apart iMix
By popular demand: most of the music from between sessions at An Event Apart Seattle 2007.
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“Maybe” is one option too many
“Maybe” is one option too many. As a best practice, we should dispense with it, just as we should replace five-star rating systems with four-star ones.
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The Beatles slept here
My body insists it’s 10:30 at night, but the sun tells a different story. That orb has barely begun to set over Puget Sound, whose ripples magnify and fragment its blinding whiteness. The sun and…
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Hi, Mom!
In a Special Report, Business Week focuses on designers creating innovation by crossing disciplines and combining technologies. I’m one of ten designers they profile. I kind of had to blog this.
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bgcolor follies
If you forget to set your site’s background color, your visitors may do it for you. A mini-photo gallery. Collect your own!
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When is e-mail like a bad website?
Nokia sent a friend an HTML e-mail message. I’ve broken it into five screen shots, because it won’t fit on one. E-mail, as a medium, really doesn’t want to carry all this freight.
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ALA 239: Designer frameworks and robot designers
Take web design off the production line. Design better by offloading routine tasks.