It took me a while to “get” Twitter. In recent months due to my work load, I find myself reading blogs less, and more Twitter feeds. The live tweeting from #SXSW is a good example of how Twitter is the fastest way to get info out there. But I still prefer to read/write a well thought out blog when I have the time to.
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- My Job Ruins the Fun – Sometimes we ruin our own fun by being anal.
From Elsewhere
- Designing the Windows 7 Desktop Experience – Keynotes from Stephan Hoefnagels’s talk at MIX09, from Luke W’s blog. An interesting read.
- Cufón, a sIFR alternative for font embedding – Cameron writes a very detailed article on this new image replacement technique. He also includes a demo test page.
- Goodbye Google – Douglas Bowman leaves Google. This articles gives a good insight on the design culture within Google, and the challenges a designer faces.
- Type Neu – is a typography site I just discovered. There can never be too many typography sites.
- Design Bombs – Soh started a new CSS gallery site. Go check it out!
Random Cool Stuff
- Math Gems – The marth nerd in me really loves this.
- Sumo Paint – This Flash based image editing tool is quite impressive. Check out the shapes and brushes!
- Browser Ball -A really impressive experiment showcasing what Javascript can do. Try opening multiple windows.
- Your gender, based on your browser history – I’m way too concerned about my gender after this test.
- 10 Creative Bathroom Ads – Some of these just freak me out. Like the one in Japan won’t bode well with me since I’m scare of height, and I’m claustrophobic.
Vid of the Week
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History of the Internet from PICOL on Vimeo.
Comments 3
03-23-09
Hey Jin, the ‘Designing Windows 7 UX’ talk was quite nice. I love getting this sort of insider info on how they go about designing the UI — wish they would do a public gallery of all those detailed UI mockups. What’s with the Apple fanboy questions at the end though? He should have handled them better I think :)
03-23-09
It’s a nice talk indeed. I too love this behind the scene type of talks. I don’t think there’s enough of them out there. Often we’re fed with a product show.
I’m sure he was prepared for W7 vs OSX type of questions. As for actual usability of win7, I may have to give it a try eventually. As GUI goes, I still don’t like the glossiness. I wish they went for a cellshading, minimalistic look instead like they did with the Microsoft OfficeLab 2019 video.
03-26-09
Likelihood of you being FEMALE is 62%
Likelihood of you being MALE is 38%
The gender result from my browser history… I know it looks incriminating but… :)