You're already a pretty good designer by Mark on July 27, 2011 8:17 PM on Design I'm a seasoned hacker that is able to tackle immensely complex problems with aplomb. I'm able to untangle spaghetti cod

Contrast Rebellion Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them! https://www.awwwards.com/sites/contrast-rebellion Look at these websites. They look fabulous indeed but how good is

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July 31, 2011 10.7/GUI In the fall of 2009, I was afforded a rare opportunity: I got to start a lot of people thinking about something in a new way. A video I had spent my spare time producing that su

By Mike Monteiro on Aug 9, 2011 in Design Basics Relatively speaking, relationships used to be simple. Or at least simpler. Maybe just not as complicated. Once upon a time your professional relationships stayed in one place, your personal relationships in another, and you controlled where those…

Here are a few things I’ve been doing lately to write better code, and less code, with less effort. Synthesized instance variables Adding a property is costly when you have to declare it three times:

Posterous Spaces Posterous Spaces is no longer available Thanks to all of my @posterous peeps. Y'all made this a crazy ride and it was an honor and pleasure working with all of y'all. Thanks to all of

In episode 23 of Back to Work , my friend Dan Benjamin argued it is not possible to do two things really well at the same time. Specifically, Dan explained that there simply aren’t enough hours in the

Logical paradox in decision-making theory The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually ceased or destroyed by the intolerant. K

Four potential options for interpreting this image (via Reddit , via djacobs ). A real woman was in real labor in her real car and pulled over in front of this real house on this real street and gave

Ever have a launch that went, well, something other than what you planned? You’re in good company. Consider the story of the Disneyland launch in 1955, and you might feel better about your own persona

Peter Norvig Why is everyone in such a rush? Walk into any bookstore, and you'll see how to Teach Yourself Javain 24 Hours alongside endless variations offering to teach C,SQL, Ruby, Algorithms, and s

Much has been written about employee motivation and retention. It’s written by folks who actively use words like motivation and retention and generally don’t have a clue about the daily necessity of k

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A number of people asked about the technical aspects of the great Delicious exodus of 2010, and I've finally had some time to write it up. Note that times on all the graphs are UTC. On December 16th Y

I was asked via email: It’s my job to research user interfaces and what makes a successful UI. My two conclusions I’ve come to so far are that UIs need to be invisible and familiar. I was hoping you m

happy notes * / april 2011 / an empathetic plan “Complain about the way other people make software by making software.” I keep wanting to tweet that, but I feel like it's too big of an idea to stuff i

Sunday, December 25th, 2005 Evening at Adler video you'll come across a part where some of the guys on the panel talk about how much it costs to make the transition to doing the independent macintosh

Marco.org I’m : a programmer, writer, podcaster, geek, and coffee enthusiast. Apps • Podcast • Twitter • About Originally published in The Magazine, Issue 4 . I’ve noticed a very clear trend among tec

I grew up reading the Washington Post . I started with the funny pages, then gradually explored the local and national news, eventually settling in to a steady diet of politics—a fascination no doubt encouraged by my upbringing just outside the beltway. Growing up, the Post was how I learned about…

I recently stumbled across screenshots of old websites of mine and was hurled into a state of reminiscent shock. I knew they were bad, but wow they were outstandingly horrible (redeemed only by their

Hola! I'm Ev Bogue. I'm a programmer and writer. All of my stuff fits into one bag. I'm a New Yorker who travels. I lived in Mexico City for two years. Next, I worked at a pub in Fayettenam to save enough to travel again. Right now I'm in Brooklyn two weeks. Whether I stay or go depends on New York.…

Gripes about UI/UX of Android phones/tablets and so called “openness” that is nonsense to consumers. If you also have an Android phone, you are welcome to email me your gripes as well. If you don’t but you want to buy one, read this blog before you do it. :-) — A big fan of Google, not Android When…

We’re on the boardwalk in Wildwood, New Jersey. It’s just past 9 pm on a beautiful Thursday night at the end of a beautiful week of August shore weather. The boy, however, is out of sorts, in the way

This one is funny. Eric S. Raymond — the renowned Linux/Open Source evangelist/essayist —couldn’t figure out how to connect to a shared printer. So he wrote anessay describing the problem (the UI for