Archive for ‘Design’

Follow up to the update to the update

I recently updated my update on working around Internet Explorer 9’s deficiencies with gradients and rounded corners. Based upon feedback from a friendly reader, I tweaked the HTC script to work when gradients are applied on hover or mouseover states – the sort of styling you might want to use on a big, friendly, rounded [...]

Poe Sans

Poe’s law states: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of fundamentalism that someone won’t mistake for the real thing. This article “Typekit: Remaking the Matrix” was linked around yesterday by people I respect. A lot of dumb things are published on the internet, and [...]

IT department on the Enterprise

Architecture firm – ai3 – has remodeled their office to look like the interior of a television space ship. Fancy. 2001 A Space Odyssey + Star Trek = ai3′s SuperGroup Office – Core77.

The Boston Globe redesign

The Boston Globe had redone their web site with a very nice, clean, reading-focused layout that takes advantage of modern CSS techniques. If you’re using a modern browser, try resizing your browser window to roughly the size of an iPhone. The layout will reformat based upon the screen size. This is a super neat-o method to [...]

RGBA in IE 7 and 8

I found this little trick today for tricking legacy IE into using RGBA colors – that is a color defined with transparency. It seems to work fairly well, with some caveats, specifically potential font weirdness. http://kilianvalkhof.com/2010/css-xhtml/how-to-use-rgba-in-ie/

Editions by AOL for iPad Review

Editions by AOL is a news “magazine” app for the iPad which attempts to learn your reading habits in order to create an automatically generated, curated, collection of articles from various sources on the web. The collection process happens each day by default and can be configured to alert you with a push notification. The [...]

The end of the end of the end

Read this: Subtraction.com: The End of Client Services. Then go read this: Until Gotham No Longer Needs Batman I’ve worked on similar ends of both points of view and both articles make valid points. I would only add two: Not everyone can or should run their own business. Not everyone wishes to run their own business. [...]

Privacy patterns

I have started playing with Google+ and I like it. The styling is minimal. The only UI elements that are boldly colored are ones that require a mouse click. Everything else is either grey or subtly colored. This emphasizes user content over everything else, making it far more pleasant to read compared to facebook or [...]

Wunderlist Review

    Wunderlist is a free todo list application – or suite of applications – which launched recently for Mac OS, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android. They also provide a very nice web client client. The A-Number-1-killer feature is free cloud syncing between all versions. This means you can install Wunderlist on your Mac at [...]

Vanity Fair for iPad: Review

Vanity Fair is a favorite guilty pleasure of mine. Each month I can pretend to be smart while reading an essay by Christopher Hitchens and then turn the page to photographs of a beautiful celeb-u-tant when the words get too big. I have the first dual iPhone/iPad application but it is lackluster. It’s not bad [...]