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Video

Mon, 07 May 2012 19:08:00 -0600

obsessivecompulsive: composite of planes taking off from...

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 08:01:20 -0700

obsessivecompulsive:

composite of planes taking off from Hanover airport

Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications - Smashing UX Design

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 22:00:11 -0600

Designing User Interfaces For Business Web Applications - Smashing UX Design:

(via Instapaper)

Transactional Email and Confirmation Messages (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:18:09 -0600

Transactional Email and Confirmation Messages (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox):

(via Instapaper)

"The antechapel where the statue stood Of Newton with his prism and silent face, The marble index..."

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 20:20:02 -0600

“

The antechapel where the statue stood

Of Newton with his prism and silent face,

The marble index of a mind for ever

Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.

”

- from The Prelude by Williams Wordsworth, part of the first Apple logo.

sitting is killing you

Mon, 09 May 2011 16:36:41 -0600

sitting is killing you

"It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of..."

Thu, 03 Mar 2011 12:27:09 -0700

“It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.”

- G.K. Chesterton in Orthodoxy (via gkchestertonquote)

Photo

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:21:56 -0700

i <3 fun.

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:19:11 -0700

i <3 fun.

The Psychology of Color

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:24:54 -0700

The Psychology of Color

Percentage of page that is actual content of page. —...

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 10:21:17 -0700

Percentage of page that is actual content of page. — @zeldman

"Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing."

Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:24:34 -0700

“Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing.”

- Thich Nhat Hanh in Living Buddha, Living Christ

"Make it good. As front-end engineers, our job is ultimately to produce and deliver the front-end..."

Sat, 29 Jan 2011 15:33:41 -0700

“

Make it good.

As front-end engineers, our job is ultimately to produce and deliver the front-end “experience.” That is, in addition to the core service (eg., a photo sharing site) which you are providing, you are also responsible for replicating and maintaining the quality of the visual aesthetic, including attention to detail in your UI.

Making it really good.

It’s “the little things” – small layout changes, single-pixel margin tweaks and color fiddling done as part of this process – that can sometimes seem overly nit-picky and risk being overlooked or sacrificed in order to meet deadlines, but the result of this effort has value: It’s quite obvious when UI polish has been done, and it’s something everyone can appreciate – even if they don’t know it.

Getting the fine details down “just so” can take extra time and effort, but in my experience has always been justified – and whenever your work is under a microscope, attention to detail is a wonderful opportunity to make it shine.

”

- On UI Quality (The Little Things)

I love this photo from Matt Mawson’s Crossing Queensboro...

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 13:16:13 -0700

I love this photo from Matt Mawson’s Crossing Queensboro Bridge collection.

An Incomplete History of Twitter - Support for @Replies

Sat, 08 Jan 2011 10:04:46 -0700

I was reminded of the inception of @Replies on Twitter during a recent conversation about the early stages of Twitter, and the moment when users first “got it.”

This excerpt comes from an email sent by @Biz Stone introducing support for the @reply convention. Note the date, May of 2007; Twitter was nearly a year old before this behavior was supported.

From: Biz Stone
Date: Thu, May 31, 2007 at 9:07 PM
Subject:Forward Motion

Hello Twitter-ers,

There’s been a bunch of forward motion at Twitter HQ in two weeks. We’ve done significant work on our infrastructure to make things better, we’ve built some new features, and we’re adding new ways to interact with Twitter. We’d love to have you come by and check things out! http://twitter.com

Support for @Replies

We noticed a whole bunch of Twitter-ers adopting a new way to communicate specifically to individuals in a public way by adding an @ symbol before a username like this: “@biz thinking I’ll get a soy latte too!” To make this experience a bit better, we added a few features to support this behavior.

- The Replies Tab will display an archive of @replies
- @Replies are followed by an ‘in reply to’ link for context
- @username automatically links the username to the profile

"It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might..."

Wed, 05 Jan 2011 06:28:54 -0700

“It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.”

- G.K. Chesterton in The Catholic Church and Conversion (via gkchestertonquote)

My photos of the Dec 21st, 2010 Lunar Eclipse

Tue, 21 Dec 2010 02:11:19 -0700

My photos of the Dec 21st, 2010 Lunar Eclipse

"When you see me drift astray Outta touch and outta place Will you tell me to my face?"

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:31:58 -0700

“When you see me drift astray
Outta touch and outta place
Will you tell me to my face?”

- Hang with me, Robyn (via kari-shma)

"Quiet your mind. Soak it all in. It’s a game you can’t win. Enjoy the ride."

Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:30:11 -0700

“Quiet your mind. Soak it all in. It’s a game you can’t win. Enjoy the ride.”

- Zac Brown, Wyatt Durrette

My Husband Ranting While Watching Big Bang Theory on Mute

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:16:17 -0600

Are these guys supposed to be students or geniuses? Why do they have a mixing bowl? I didn't have a mixing bowl until you lived with me for a year. What is that on the white board?? Calculus? The change of density over the change of time? That's grade 11 calculus. What is this show about? Geniuses? Geniuses don't display grade 11 math around their apartment. Geniuses don't even have to write that shit down.
(I think he's done)