Category: Design
Cocoia Blog – Getting Notified
Interesting seeing how other mobile OS’es implement notifications.
Quora – Life Without Photoshop by Joel Lewenstein
What happens when you throw Photoshop out of your prototyping work-flow.
TechCrunch – Yahoo Engineer Complains About Lack Of Innovation At Yahoo
What cruddy work Yahoo.
Mathias Bynens – Optimizing the asynchronous Google Analytics snippet
This is some micro optimizations but still improvement none the less, however the comments give me some pause on implementing it just yet.
Subtraction.com – The Interactive TV You Already Use
This invites this exact problem where a product almost entirely designed by engineers is marketed towards average people, leading to a failed product.
TimKadlec.com – Death to Captchas
I tend to agree, captchas create a cruddy user experience.
41Latitude – Google Maps & Label Readability — Part 3
Interesting in how little things add up to really improve your experience.
Warpspire – URL Design
Might I suggest that The San Fransisco Chronicle read this article for improving their urls.
Daring Fireball – The Daily Wait
Even more on how long The Daily takes to load and why it’s such an awful user experience.
Four Star Store – The Daily
Sounds like winning software people.