Vintage Textures for Designers
June 17th, 2010The folks over at You the Designer offered up a great compilation of vintage textures perfect for my next project.
Continue reading »The Weblog
What’s Next? How Mobile is Changing Design by Brian Fling
June 16th, 2010Brian Fling has been a leader in creating interactive experiences for both the web and mobile mediums. He has worked with hundreds of businesses from early stage start-ups to Fortune 50 companies to leverage new media around the needs of real peoples.
Continue reading »Death to Internet Explorer 6?
July 25th, 2009In a perfect world could you neglect outdated Internet Explorer versions? Of course. However, the reality is enough users still use the outdated browsers that just completely neglecting them would mean cutting a percentage of traffic that you may not be able to afford to lose.
Continue reading »Indexing the Web—It’s Not Just Google’s Business (A List Apart)
July 24th, 2009In working to maximize application speed one often-overlooked element that can affect performance more than almost anything else: database design.
Continue reading »Netbooks Offer a Chance to Challenge Windows
March 13th, 2009With a decline in PC sales, consumers are looking for a budget-conscious alternative when all they want is email, Facebook, and Instant Messaging.
Continue reading »Memo from the C.E.O. (via The New Yorker)
March 6th, 2009SHOUTS AND MURMURS casual about cost-cutting measures in an office. A memo is sent from the C.E.O to inform the staff of certain cost-cutting measures in order for the company to remain competitive. The company will no longer be serving complimentary cold cuts and soda on Cold Cuts & Soda Day.
Continue reading »The $300 Million Button
February 24th, 2009How changing a button increased a site’s annual revenues by $300 million.
Continue reading »Always Remember: Use Spellcheck
February 13th, 2009As a business it doesn’t look good when you’ve got a spelling error on your website. It took awhile to catch the mistake that I had on this very website which could have been avoided with a simple spell check.
Continue reading »News: Gmail Adds Tasks to iPhone, Mobile Browsers
February 4th, 2009One of Gmail’s most popular add-on features, the Tasks list, has arrived on your web-enabled mobile device.
Continue reading »News: Amazon moves into casual gaming in a very big way
February 3rd, 2009Video games remain big business, and casual games are becoming an increasingly large slice of the industry’s pie. Near the end of last year, online super-merchant Amazon.com purchased the casual game developer and portal Reflexive, and the industry wondered what fruit it would bear.
Continue reading »Jargon Watch: Frolleague
December 17th, 2008Frolleague n. A work colleague friended on a social networking site and thus granted access to personal information, from blog entries to stag party pics, that may be perceived as less than professional—or even (if the frolleague happens to be a frupervisor) grounds for dismissal.
—Jonathon Keats jargon@wired.com
