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75+ Excellent Free Professional Fonts
“In this article tripwire magazine presents an overview of more than 75 excellent free fonts you should consider using for your designs. Not all free Fonts are worth using but the Fonts listed in this article have all been picked out because they are better than the rest. Before using fonts please read the license [...]
10 Free CAPTCHA Scripts and Services
“In the past days I received several requests from my readers to suggest some CAPTCHA scripts and services quickly to embed into a web page. This post proposes a list of ten interesting scripts and services you can use to provide protection from spam bots and ensure that only humans perform certain actions.” From Woork. This [...]
Building an Online Optimization Culture
“At first blush, one could conclude that site owners suffer from either arrogance or ignorance. Marketers either believe they don’t need analytics because they are smart enough to trust their gut (arrogance), or they don’t know what to do with them (ignorance). The Web analytics community has been split on this issue. Eric T. Peterson, [...]
Tips for Sorting Through the Social Networks
02 July 2009
“Bonnie Smalley has Internet bragging rights: She has been blocked by Twitter for hand-typing too many tweets in an hour. They thought she was a computer program made to spew spam. Ms. Smalley, it turns out, is a 100 percent human customer service representative for Comcast. She is one of 10 representatives who reach out to [...]
Cool Search Engines That Are Not Google But Still Useful
02 July 2009
“How do you find a new search engine if all you know is Google? Typing “search engine” into the usual box might lead you to Microsoft’s newly launched Bing, the combined search at Dogpile, or the former king of search, Altavista. But for those willing to dig around, searching for search engines can reveal a treasure [...]
UI Pattern Documentation Review
01 July 2009
“To date, the most common approach to propagating a single user experience standard is the development of UI guidelines and principles documentation within an organization. Development teams — usually incorporating a user experience specialist — then reference this documentation during implementation and upgrade processes. However, as the numbers of systems grow within an organization, so [...]
Typography for Lawyers
29 June 2009
“Even though the legal profession depends heavily on writing, legal typography is often poor. Some blame lies with the strict typographic constraints that control certain legal documents (e.g. court rules regarding the format of pleadings).But the rest of the blame lies with lawyers. To be fair, I assume this is for lack of information, not [...]
Need Something? Talk To My Right Ear
29 June 2009
We humans prefer to be addressed in our right ear and are more likely to perform a task when we receive the request in our right ear rather than our left. In a series of three studies, looking at ear preference in communication between humans, Dr. Luca Tommasi and Daniele Marzoli from the University “Gabriele [...]
(Mostly) Free Website Monitoring Tools
25 June 2009
Recently came across two articles about free website monitoring tools, Top 10 Free Website Uptime Monitoring Services, from Design Live, and 12 Excellent Free Tools for Monitoring Your Sites Uptime, from Six Revisions. Both articles are good for identifying possible services to use. Both have some overlap in the services they document. (I’ve also covered [...]
Outlook is Broken, Let’s Fix It
24 June 2009
“Microsoft have confirmed they plan on using the Word rendering engine to display HTML emails in Outlook 2010. This means for the next 5 years your email designs will need tables for layout, have no support for CSS like float and position, no background images and lots more.” From FixOutlook.org. You’ll need a Twitter account to [...]
View Your Web Pages in Multiple Versions of Internet Explorer Browsers
26 May 2009
“How many times have you had to debug your web pages on virtual or multiple machines running different versions of Internet Explorer? Or had to wait for a slow web service to return renderings of your pages? You don’t have to do that anymore. Now you can debug your pages on multiple versions of IE on [...]
De-friending Professional Contacts on Facebook
22 May 2009
“I recently restricted my Facebook account to close friends and family and “de-friended” 205 people. Click after click banished former and current managers, co-workers and other professional contacts. They can no longer access my page on the social networking site. I wanted to tell them, “It’s not you, it’s me. I just need more privacy. I [...]
Top 10 Interaction Design Articles?
21 May 2009
IxDA, an online group of interaction designers, has an interesting thread, Top 10 Must Read Artcles, that lists articles and books worth a read. For example, The Untold Story: How the iPhone Blew Up the Wireless Industry is both about interaction design and the product design process. Intuitive Equals Familiar has some very subtle and [...]
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