October 2006 Archives

• 28 Oct 2006

  IE7 CSS Bug

  Rather ugly rendering bug discovered in IE7:IE7 bug 1: nested list (abs. positioned) is overrun by preceding link’s background colour. Via UX Magazine.

• 25 Oct 2006

  Jenkins on Participatory Culture

  Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century is a crisp, cogent white paper by Henry Jenkins for the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning Initiative on the emergence and challenges of participatory media and users as content creators.

• 25 Oct 2006

  Great Scott

  Interview with Si Scott, typographer with flourish: Type for you. If only you could do this in CSS. Dang.

• 25 Oct 2006

  World Usability Day

  Mark your calendars for World Usability Day 2006 with events scheduled worldwide, all day on November 14, 2006.

• 21 Oct 2006

  Katrina Cottage Wins People's Design Award

  The Katrina Cottage, designed by Marianne Cusato, wins the Cooper-Hewitt People's Design Award. (PS: The comments make for an interesting read.)

• 18 Oct 2006

  Guide to Brainstorming

  BusinessWeek offers Eight Rules to Brilliant Brainstorming. (Yes, there are rules.)

• 14 Oct 2006

  Shoes for Little Growing Feet

  Great idea for children's growing feetsies, Inchworm Shows can grow up to 3 sizes up with a simple push of a button. Via Gizmodo

• 5 Oct 2006

  Ellen Lupton's Call for Free Fonts

  In her Free Font Manifesto, Ellen Lupton urges foundries to offer good free fonts because they "have an explicit social purpose...[offering] the basics for maintaining literacy and communication within a society."

• 5 Oct 2006

  The Case of the Client and the Splash Page

  In case you have a client who's been living under a rock for the past five years, here's nice read on why splash pages don't work from an SEO perspective: How to Convince a Client They Don't Need a Splash Page. (Also another tip if that client insists on a splash page: fire that client! )

• 1 Oct 2006

  The Rise of a New Creative Class

  Jared Spool on the Birth of a New Specialty: Social Networking Design. Speaking of which, if you haven't already, watch Danah Boyd's talk at iBiblio on social spaces. Yup, it's definitely an important niche.

• 1 Oct 2006

  Project Runway Meets Hack Day

  All Women Team Takes Yahoo Hack Day Top Prize for their entry, Blogging in Motion, a photoblogging system in the guise of a handbag. For fans of Project Runway, you'll notice that one of the team members is Diana Eng, the season 2 wearables mistress who is clearly no stranger to 24-hour deadlines with crazy creative constraints.

• 1 Oct 2006

  The Meaning of Dashed Lines

  Wonderful illustrated essay on the language of the dashed line (though far from complete): The dashed line in use.