Bits of Richard Rutter connected.
Apr 04
We do our best to enjoy what we do. I always go on about how we don’t work down a coal mine or clear minefields. We are designers, so we should listen to music all day, wear stupid t-shirts and experiment with facial hair.
Mar 17
I think I might be suffering from some sort of reverse paranoia. The whole world seems to be out to help me.
Mar 03
interpreting web content in the most standards compliant way possible is a better thing to do
Feb 27
Of all nationalisations in British history, none has been so corrosive of the public good as the nationalisation of social responsibility.
Feb 21
The difference in IE will be that a page will be able to tell it at which stage of IE’s evolution it was developed, and should thus be treated.
The result of CSS polymorphism is a combinatorial explosion of possibilities
If you have never uploaded a movie to YouTube before, please do not think you need a special uploader. Uploading is the simplest thing in the world. This can be proved by observing that the kind of people who do it most are often barely sentient.
Feb 19
Feb 12
With version targeting, the incentive to plan ahead, to be forward-looking, is almost entirely destroyed.
I have drempt of a tool that uses assets like omnigraffle but also has markup attached to each asset. To make a long story short, a ui/ux person would actually be building semantic pages when creating wireframes.
Feb 08
on the Web, most people are bozos and not worth listening to
Feb 04