Posts Tagged: Web Design and Usability
MeshU 2008
I'm currently in Toronto at the Mesh conference taking place at the MaRS centre on College Street. Today was the MeshU day of workshops, including great presentations by John Lax, Leah Culver, Ryan Carson, John Resig, and a bunch of others. I presented in the morning and promised that I'd stick my …
Digg Comments Redux (again)
As I've talked about at a few conferences recently, one of the exciting/difficult things about working in-house, on a project with the scope of something like Digg, is the luxury/challenge to adapt your own work. The comments system on Digg is a perfect example. Just this past week, we rolled out …
Pownce Preview...
• Here's an annoyingly unhelpful teaser of a new Pownce-related thing I've been working on with a few friends lately. It's the first piece of really original design I've done in a while, which has been refreshing. After working on iterating and refining the same two projects (Digg + Pownce) for …
Designing for the Social Web
Joshua Porter, aka Bokardo, has just announced the publication of his book Designing for the Social Web. I finally met Josh in person at SXSW when we were speaking on a panel together about this very subject. He's obviously got fantastic insight into the subject of design for social sites and it …
Packaging Portfolios
Why not come back from a months-long writing hiatus with a somewhat off-the-cuff rant that's been building for just about as long as I've been away from posting on my weblog? • I've been going through dozens of applications for design positions over the past few months as we hire at Digg. I've …
Presenting at FOWA
A few weeks ago, I got the chance to present at the Future of Web Apps conference in London, England. I was talking about interpreting user feedback on websites like Digg and Pownce. Thanks a lot to Ryan, Mel, and the rest of the Carson team for having me! • | View | Upload your own • If you …
Um, yeah, you know
British podcaster Paul Boag had me on his show for a nice little interview the other day. We discussed the user interface of Digg, enabling people to participate in a community site, developing for the iPhone, and lots of other interesting bits of interface design. He's very good at putting his …
Privacy on Pownce
We've been trying to balance both privacy and user discoverability on Pownce to varying degrees of success since we launched the site three weeks ago. I just wrote a longish post over on the Pownce blog explaining our thoughts on this equilibrium. Thanks for everyone who gave us feedback on this …
Digg on an iPhone
We just launched a special version of Digg today intended to be browsed on an iPhone. It's available at digg.com/iphone but you've got to either be on an iPhone, in Webkit, or possibly on a Webkit-enabled device like some of the fancy Nokia phones. • It's really fun to be developing for the …
Over the Top PNG
The 24-bit PNG image format has held a ton of promise for so long. It promised designers the ability to have true alpha transparency for their images so that they could save files once and put them over just about any background color or pattern and they'd look great. Generally, PNGs save as …