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10.28.2006

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. [+]

10.25.2006

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. [+]

10.25.2006

Great Scott

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

10.25.2006

World Usability Day

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

10.21.2006

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.) [+]

10.18.2006

Guide to Brainstorming

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

10.14.2006

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 [+]

10.05.2006

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." [+]

10.05.2006

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! ) [+]

10.01.2006

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. [+]

10.01.2006

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. [+]

10.01.2006

The Meaning of Dashed Lines

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

 

 

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