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A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008
A List Apart: Articles: The Survey, 2008
"Calling all designers, developers, information architects, project managers, writers, editors, marketers, and...
10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments
"The other day Bob Garfield had a good kvetch about dumb comments on newspaper websites on his show, On The Me...
Web Design Dashboard
Web Design Dashboard
"The definitive resource list for anyone designing, developing, marketing or maintaining websites."...
“Marks and Meaning” a new book by XPLANE founder Dave Gray
“Marks and Meaning” a new book by XPLANE founder Dave Gray
"Marks and meaning is a work in progress; an evolving exploration of visual language, visual thinking and visu...
Font Conference
Font Conference
"This video wasn't long enough, so we made it double-spaced."...
Scrnshots
Scrnshots
"Scrnshots.com is a community for designers to share screenshots of interesting and beautiful design." (Thanks...
Grassroots Comics
Grassroots Comics
"World Comics is a non-profit organization in Finland and India that promotes the use of local comics as a mea...
Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar (Part 1)
Conversation with Michael B. Johnson of Pixar (Part 1)
Peter Merholz: "At UX Week 2008, our Day 4 keynoter is Dr. Michael B. Johnson, who runs the Moving Pictures Gr...
How a page gets created
How a page gets created
"Matt Willey recently recorded his decision-making on a feature design for the Royal Academy magazine. It prov...
Daily Heller by Steven Heller
Daily Heller by Steven Heller
The "new-improved, re-designed, wordier, picture-ier Daily Heller" now in blog format....
Getty Images + Flickr Make a Deal
Getty Images + Flickr Make a Deal
"Getty and Flickr have just entered into an exclusive partnership to sell Flickr images.
Here's how it�...
Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
Polite, Pertinent, and… Pretty: Designing for the New-wave of Personal Informatics
Matt Jones and Tom Coates, a presentation from the 2008 Web2.0Expo: "Today we're going to... examine what we f...
SparkFonts: Sparklines as TrueType Fonts
SparkFonts: Sparklines as TrueType Fonts
"A key characteristic of the SparkMaker add-in for Microsoft Office is the typographical creation of sparkline...
Studio Lettering at House Industries
Studio Lettering at House Industries
"The first 200 Studio Lettering buyers will receive a free 64-page hardbound book! Add a refreshing dash of ha...
WALL-E Easter Eggs
WALL-E Easter Eggs
"Pixar is known to fill their films with fun easter eggs and WALL-E is no different. Here are some of the thin...
URL, R.I.P, 1988 – 2008
URL, R.I.P, 1988 – 2008
"Ah, URL, we hardly knew ye. As has been widely reported and almost uniformly lamented, the ICANN has decided ...
Gene Weingarten – Yanks Thump Sox
Gene Weingarten – Yanks Thump Sox
"If you are like I, you are pretty sick of reading articles about how the financially-troubled newspaper indus...
Deceptive Areas
Deceptive Areas
"People are poor at accurately judging areas; they do much better comparing linear measures like the lengths o...
Reading Process Is Surprisingly Different That Previously Thought, Technology Shows
Reading Process Is Surprisingly Different That Previously Thought, Technology Shows
"Scientists have been interested in the movements of our eyes while reading for forty years. However, until no...
The Story of VizThink
The Story of VizThink
Congrats to the VizThink team on their one-year anniversary!
"As you may have noticed in our earlier post toda...
XPLANE on CNN
XPLANE on CNN
June 23, 2008: Headline News' Richard Lui showcases a company that illustrates its ideas worldwide.
Embedded v...
Infographic depicts Obama’s reinvention of campaign funding
Infographic depicts Obama’s reinvention of campaign funding
XPLANE created visual story of Obama’s social networking strategy
PORTLAND, Ore. (June 20, 2008) — XPLA...
No Small Change: How Obama Reinvented Campaign Finance
No Small Change: How Obama Reinvented Campaign Finance
Check out this new XPLANATiON that XPLANE put together:
"Barack Obama is the first major candidate to decline ...
Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing
Introducing MagCloud and the Future of Magazine Publishing
Derek Powazek: "For the last year, I've been working on a project with HP Labs called MagCloud. The idea ...