Category: Communication

Code Fast Die Young – Design annoyances
Too true.
March 20, 2011
Marco.org – Why the Quick Bar (“dickbar”) is still so offensive
All true and wonderfully pointed, thanks Marco.
March 20, 2011
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report – You are all in publishing!
Working on the web, means you are in publishing.
March 20, 2011
furbo.org – Twitterrific firsts
Third party clients have been at the forefront of the Twitter experience for many years, that differentiation and unique spin on the Twitter stream is what drove many of Twitter’s core functionality today.
March 15, 2011
Web Standards Sherpa – Stop Hiding Behind Products
Generic terms don’t help customers they just frustrate them.
March 15, 2011
The Next Web – Twitter explains why developers shouldn’t build new clients
So basically Twitter is going to push hard into developing/perfecting official Twitter clients, so everyone else we’re coming after your business model, switch, differentiate or be dead in the water.
March 13, 2011
Marco.org – Moving on from iPad “office productivity” apps
This makes a fair amount of sense and explains why I’m still not that interested in the iPad personally, casual media creation isn’t interesting to me.
March 13, 2011
Contrast – Designing your sign up page
The initial sign-up page is the hardest for me to judge in terms of effectiveness.
March 13, 2011
BBC News – New net rules set to make cookies crumble
That’s not a fun change to make, especially because if people choose to reject cookies, they’ll want to know why the site acts so differently.
March 8, 2011
jacquesmattheij.com – what a programmer does for a living
I did something similar to this when teaching an Intro to Computer Science course.
March 8, 2011