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Daylight-saving time is more complicated than a Florida electoral ballot.
“Avoid premature optimization” is one of the axioms of software development. It’s basically fancy talk for “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
I just put the final touches on Big Medium's library editor. Here's a preview.
I expected nostalgic photos, but instead got insight into how technology works to spark design innovation.
I've added options for ordering printed, bound copies of the Big Medium 2 book and the Prototype 1.5 documentation.
I published a 166-page PDF today. I didn’t write the content, I don’t own it, and the copyright belongs to someone else. What gives?
The final 1.0 release of the Firebug extension for Firefox is a web developer's dream.
A big shout out to the Association of Research Libraries, which just launched a newly designed website, powered by Big Medium 2.
Assuming the browser continues its rapid growth, the crummy IE6 browser may soon be behind us, letting us spend more time designing and less time chasing bugs.
Audio-obsessed museum visitors prefer to listen to their audio guides rather than look at the art, revealing a lesson in interface design.
An “empathy suit” helps designers discover how well their creations work for aging customers. Are there clues here for software and web developers, too?
Today my personal odometer hits 36, and egad, I’m suddenly on the north side of my thirties.
An architecture exhibit offers some useful usability lessons for web and software designers.
Don Norman despairs that simple doesn't sell, and the blogosphere reacts. What makes simplicity so difficult?
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