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23/12/2011

We wish a wonderful Christmas! :)

20/12/2011

Stats based on data collected by StatCounter on a sample exceeding 15 billion pageviews per month and more than 3 million websites

Tracks the Market Share of Search Engines, Browsers and Operating Systems including Mobile from over 15 billion monthly page views.

14/12/2011

And again... Erik Spiekermann, because he's worth listening to:

09/12/2011

A great interview with "godfather of modern type" - Erik Spiekermann:

a conversation with Erik Spiekermann and Elliot Jay Stocks Metro, the design paradigm behind Windows Phone is in part, a celebration of typography. In this s...

01/12/2011

A counterpoint to responsive web design

A school of influential web designers are pioneering ‘Responsive Web Design’ as a way to render content on different types of browser screens. They must fix the fledgling technique’s technical faults before it propagates into the wild. And it is certainly not yet worthy of its name: designers must t...

23/11/2011

Product page design: combining the best of eCommerce interaction design with the styling and engagement of a fashion magazine

.net magazine recently asked me to design the perfect eCommerce product page as a part of their ‘build-off’ feature. This is an excerpt from that feature.

16/11/2011

50GB free storage for iOS devices users:

As evidenced by the overwhelming crowds during past iPhone and iPad launches, it’s clear that our lives revolve around mobile. That’s why we’re happy to announce that we’re giving away 50 GB of free storage to anyone who uses a free Box Personal account on an iOS device. That’s right, it’s 50 GB in ...

09/11/2011

Practical guidelines for web form usability:

In this article, we’ll provide practical guidelines that you can easily follow. These guidelines have been crafted from usability testing, field testing, website tracking, eye tracking, Web analytics and actual complaints made to customer support personnel by disgruntled users.

08/11/2011

Google+ launches pages for business and brands

Google has finally unveiled brand page for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google's social network. "So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people," Goo

04/11/2011

Internet weighs about 50 grams (calculation based on the weight of all electrons in motion that make up the internet)

Thanks to and for these facts! all music by Jake Chudnow: http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow READ MORE: Weight gained from e-books: ...

31/10/2011

Sprites: combining images into a single image can dramatically reduce the number of HTTP requests that your webpages make, which improves front-end performance. Here's an useful tool:

Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.

26/10/2011

How to enable Timeline on Facebook before the official launch:

This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It's like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts. Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime...