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”Unfortunately for the class of New York/urban creative/design/media types, we can’t solve the congressional/industrial/labor/energy clusterfuckingfuckfuck problem by simply adding white space, an efficient digital publishing model, and a healthy dose of Helvetica.
via britticisms via somethingchanged
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Super Ugly Website Contest
via laurawhitehead via The Design O’Blog
Totally the revenge of 1996.
I’ve tried to access my old geocities site (which was a Buffy choose your own adventure fanfic thing… yes, really) but alas, it is no more.
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This is the logo used to signify things affected by the recent stimulus bills, chronicled at recovery.gov.
The site is actually all kinds of awesome. Hooray for transparency!
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How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell - The Oatmeal
(via kodewulf)
Sometimes my “friends” ask me to help with their “simple, one page website” for their great new idea du jour. After many years, I have finally learned my lesson. Recent convo:
Him: Hey I may have a business proposition for you! I need you to design me a simple, one-page website for this GREAT new business I’m starting.
Me: Thanks, but no thanks.
Him: I thought this was what your consulting business did?
Me: No, we do enterprise technology consulting, mostly regarding network infrastructure design.
Him: Same difference. So do you want to do it or not? Or refer me. We don’t really have a lot of money for design, but it should be really easy.
Me: http://www.intuit.com/website-building-software/
Him: Wow that’s great, thanks! I signed up.YesThisReallyHappened.
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(via pike360)
I still remember the first time I saw a print of Picasso’s Guernica when I was in fifth grade. I had one of those completely-absorbed-reality-fading kind of moments you never forget. It’s still one of my favorites, and seeing this video was like seeing it again for the first time. Wow.
I would love to see this treatment applied to other works; it’s stunning. Hmmm…. Monet? Dali? Murakami? Miró? Yes, please.
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#0044CC - The one hundred million dollar colour
Microsoft also tested multiple versions of blue for links in their search results. A specific color of blue (#0044CC) drove $80-$100 million dollars a year increase over the light blue the design team tried first.
via lukew.com & found via Andrew ParkerAndrew references Douglas Bowman in his post, who quit Google’s design team, citing an example of the time the company did extensive testing to pick from 41 shades of blue. It seems that perhaps Google had it right.
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The future of wireframes?
via laurawhitehead via Made by Many:
As wireframes have developed, the role and skill set of information architects have developed too. The most effective wireframes are now created by people who can see how a site fits together as a series of connected interactions— Who see the information as the interface, and understand that these two can’t be separated but yet can be affected by time and place.
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via NYCResistor:
Here’s the php code that you might want to use on your web applications to let iPad users know that their device might not meet the user experience requirements that you feel are necessary for the full enjoyment of your applications. You know, requirements such as screws on the device, or the ability to multitask, or install software without an approval process controlled by some megalomaniac in Cupertino. I’ve modeled the response to be somewhat familiar in wording to apple developers. You know, just to show that I care.
Perhaps when I get home I’ll see if there’s an area of the Tumblr customization wherein I can send header information before page info is sent…
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http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview
All of this work toward expanding fonts on the web is all well and good. But I expect it also means that we’re on the verge of countless eye-searing design decisions the likes of which haven’t been seen since Geocities, 1995.
The available font selections are all within acceptable levels of eye-searing as of yet (of course the one requisite “handwritten” font will be overused in about three seconds) but the fear of Comic Sans websites always looms. The inclusion of several “Droid” fonts seems indicative of Google’s continuing desire to brand the internet as its own.
Based on Postage by Greg Cooper. Everything heavily modified by me.
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