July 2010
38 posts
“Always Use Verbs as Button Labels
The two Windows dialog boxes shown above...”
– Great advice by ignore the code: Nobody Reads your Dialog Boxes
“Prefer Code to Comments.”
– (via mnmal)
“Look what [Apple has] done to poor Adobe, yanking away their right to spend more...”
– The ever-arrogant Apple « Observatory
Help Menu Search as Shortcut Button →
Great tip from Mark Dalrymple: instead of remembering keyboard shortcuts for dozens of different menu items, just use the Help menu (Command-/) and start typing the name of the menu item you want. Sort of like LaunchBar for menu items. UPDATE: Ends up the standard shortcut is Command-Shift-/, not plain Command-/. (It’s like Command-?, get it?) I’ve been using this technique ever since the search...
WatchWe, the Best Practices Stammtisch Essen, joined the largest happening in Germany: 60km (37mi) of autobahn were closed down and equipped with picnic tables. We offered free website advice and a large analog twitter wall seeing approx. 12 meters of tweets. See @ScreenOrigami and me in action in the video.
Der BPSE berät analog (by @DieSteph)
“For most users, checklist accessibility is not useful and may even be harmful....”
– Can checklist accessibility be harmful?
Khoi Vinh Resigns as NYTimes.com Design Director →
cameronmoll:
A good friend and long-time inspiration for me, Khoi is moving on:
It wasn’t an easy decision. I’ve been at The New York Times for four and a half years now, four and a half years that will doubtless figure prominently in my life for years to come. There were some rough patches, as there are with any job, but on the whole it’s been the best job I’ve ever had….
In the short run,...
I just left this comment at We Need Another W3C. by @baekdal:
2022 doesn’t matter. It won’t be a recommendation by then or ever. There is already a competitor to the W3C – it is the WHATWG, which started HTML5 by its own. They estimate a final spec by… wait for it… 2022. They are browser vendors who implement that stuff. There is an process of building a spec while implementing it, that’s why we...
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Using files for page templates in Textpattern |... →
include(txpath.’/pages/default.php’);
The road to TXP 5 →
Yeah, this will rock again. Looking forward to all the improvements.
“Das iPad gibt mir das erste Mal das Gefühl wirklich zu begreifen, wie Webseiten...”
– Marco Zehe, @MarcoZehe, bei Twitter
Top 15 Worst Logo FAILS Ever →
Blumentopf-RAPortage: Deutschland führt... →
Top 5 Mistakes of Massive CSS →
The evolution of a speaking style →
Someone said to me, “you know, you’re a much better speaker now than when you first started.” I was taken aback, both by the graciousness of the compliment and the attention that this person had paid to me over the years. This is the type of compliment that everyone wishes they receive and yet seldom do. And such, I began to ponder what I’d changed in speaking style over...
“Personally I find it much more inspirational looking at anything but web design....”
– Web designers, stop looking at web design - Walk in the park, look at the sky.
How to make your web content look stunning on the... →
The moment you first lay eyes on the iPhone 4’s new Retina display, you are ruined. No other display will ever make you happy. Not unless it, too, is a Retina display. You start seeing pixels everywhere. My beloved MacBook Pro’s screen? Pixels. The iPad I bought a few months ago and couldn’t leave aside? Pixels.
Great insights by @aral on how to design apps and websites for...
Divvy · Window management at its finest. →
With Divvy, it is as simple as calling up the interface, clicking and dragging. When you let go, your window will be resized and moved to the relative position on the screen. If that seems like too much work, you can go ahead and create as many different shortcuts as you’d like that resize and move your windows in exactly the same way.
HTML5 Canvas Cheat Sheet →
via @cameronmoll
SimpleBits: Welcome to the bitstream →
Times are changing. Tumblr is THE new blogging platform. Cameron Moll, Dan Cederholm and others moved to it, as it is dead simple, allows for quick posts, reposts and commentary (like this one). And it can be customized dead simple (something that needs to happen here asap).
No one wants to do heavy lifting with blog tools anymore, we want to create content, quick, easy and without hassle. And...
Keming, a Safari extension to fix typography →
Perfect idea.