"Control" or "Why is interactive design different from print design?" (Khoi...
The Web is not Print. I’ve said it a million times. But it took the master, Khoi Vinh, to express why. He doesn’t have all the answers yet, but he states the problem space more clearly than I’ve heard...
View ArticleOur Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth
The Onion’s newest project has just hit the stores. It’s a hardcover book titled "Our Dumb World: The Onion’s Atlas of the Planet Earth." It’s hilarious. I’ll admit a bias because my brother worked on...
View ArticleCNET Announces closed-captioning
Earlier this week CNET began providing closed-captioning for the online video offerings. This is great for web accessibility, and needed with the rise of web video. As far as I know they’re the first...
View ArticleData Ocean vs Document Lake
Friend and Yahoo! Developer Network (YDN) Director Matt McAlister has a good post today on Creating leverage at the data layer. Matt cites Tim Berners-Lee from a recent interview saying that the future...
View ArticleThe 34-Blade Razor from Yahoo!
Congratulations to my friend and colleague Stoyan Stefanov for the publication of Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs after presenting them at the PHP Quebec Conference in Montreal last week. The...
View ArticleForeward to O’Reilly’s High Performance Web Sites Book by Steve Souders
Steve Souders wrote High Performance Web Sites: Essential Knowledge for Front-End Engineers last year for O’Reilly. He generously invited me to write the foreward. The book was published about six...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: The Fires
Eric Miraglia, my friend and YUI teammate, tipped me off to a great blog last week during the show-and-tell portion of our weekly staff meeting. It’s a photo-journalism blog called The Big Picture....
View ArticleTwitter Faster than Reality
LA shook at 11:42:15 today according to the official record from the U.S. Geological Survey. But according to [a report of] Twitter activity today (by the tweetip site) it happened 43 seconds earlier...
View ArticleWireframing with Balsamiq Mockups
Thanks to Pras for the pointer to Balsamiq’s Mockups application. I was sketching wireframes quickly within minutes of finding the product. I believe in low-fidelity sketching at the wireframe stage....
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