November 2009
“The city which lays claim to being the breakfast capital of the world is finally...”
– The Guardian on New York embracing the full English breakfast
October 2009
“Tools such as the social graph API and data formats such as microformats don’t...”
– Glenn Jones in A List Apart on public profiles across the web
“One finishing touch that I especially appreciated was a set of alternate...”
– Brian Hennings of H&FJ on designing the Tungsten sample art
September 2009
“Interesting stuff Thom … but this abstract bleepy wailing could really do with...”
– The Guardian on Thom Yorke and Flea forming a supergroup
“relegate them into a tier of Content-Level Support as opposed to Design Support”
– TobyJoe on dropping support for IE6 users
“Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it’s there, and...”
– Charlie Brooker on Microsoft’s grinning robots or the Brotherhood of the Mac. Which is worse?
“When Europeans come to America they are supposed to be divided into New York or...”
– Stephen Fry on A Tale of Two Cities
“not so much kerning as tangling in this case”
– Aegir on Third and Seventh films
July 2009
“No design survives contact with the user. Once users get their hands on it, they...”
– Josh Porter on the Agency Problem
May 2009
“The mission of the Fonts Working Group, part of the Fonts Activity, is to allow...”
– Fonts Working Group charter
“Last night a Baseline Grid saved my life”
– Ben Terrett on designing Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008
“A journey that long almost makes it a day out, albeit a day out where you spend...”
– Paul Haine on travelling by tube across London in search of a non-family friendly coffee shop
April 2009
“we need to get Britain talking about UX if we want the UX field to be talking...”
– Cennydd Bowles on Complex inferiority: user experience in the UK
March 2009
“The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of...”
– John Gruber on getting paid to blog
“Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People...”
– Steve Jobs on ‘design’ in the New York Times
January 2009
“It’s difficult to go around being aloof and cynical when you look exactly the...”
– Joeblade on living in Highbury
December 2008
“I wanted to put together a presentation that could really illustrate my three...”
– Samantha Warren
November 2008
“The performance is a tribute to lavish and well-directed spending on IT.”
– The Guardian on Ocado
“After doing a market survey and discovering that their target customers thought...”
– Concorde in Wikipedia
“Cheese is real, and so it seems, is the pleasure of the text”
– Stephen Fry in Don’t Mind Your Language…
October 2008
3 tags
“He says that when people treat their web sites like buildings, when they treat...”
– Josh Porter on The Live Web
September 2008
“I’m Googleable. I’m making my thoughts tangible. Blogging has helped me to...”
– Rebecca Cottrell on entering the industry and blogging
August 2008
“In typography neither the old style nor the new style matters; quality does.”
– from Jan Tschichold in Change of Heart by Jason Santa Maria
June 2008
“You could gargle bitumen and bin-juice for half an hour, and it couldn’t...”
– Peter Bradshaw reviews Wanted
“media is actually a triathlon, it’s three different events. People like to...”
– Clay Shirky on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
“In this same conversation with the TV producer I was talking about World of...”
– Clay Shirky on Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
“2,000 Wikipedia projects a year spent watching television”
– Clay Shirky
May 2008
“Scaffolding and gradual change are important. As a child, we are told two apples...”
– Jeremy Keith liveblogging Gavin Bell’s Journal—Data Portability For Whom? at XTech
“Here are some Acid 3 measurements so that we can figure out which browser has...”
– Jeremy Keith live-blogging Journal—Browsers on the Move: The Year in Review, the Year Ahead
April 2008
“Aperture (and, to a lesser degree, Lightroom) is to Photoshop as a finely honed...”
– Dean Allen
“We do our best to enjoy what we do. I always go on about how we don’t work down...”
– Colly on Erskine, interviewed by Subvert
March 2008
“I think I might be suffering from some sort of reverse paranoia. The whole world...”
– Jeremy Keith on big companies fixing his complaints
“interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a...”
– Chris Wilson on Microsoft’s volte-face
February 2008
“Of all nationalisations in British history, none has been so corrosive of the...”
– Simon Jenkins in the Guardian
“The difference in IE will be that a page will be able to tell it at which stage...”
– Eric Meyer on version targeting
“The result of CSS polymorphism is a combinatorial explosion of possibilities”
– Pro CSS and HTML Design Patterns
“If you have never uploaded a movie to YouTube before, please do not think you...”
– Stephen Fry
“Render unto Caesar”
– Jeffrey Zeldman in Version Targeting: Threat or Menace?
“With version targeting, the incentive to plan ahead, to be forward-looking, is...”
– Eric Meyer in A List Apart
“I have drempt of a tool that uses assets like omnigraffle but also has markup...”
– comment on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents : Happy fourth birthday, real world semantics
“on the Web, most people are bozos and not worth listening to”
– Web 2.0 Can Be Dangerous (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
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