Posts Tagged: Web Design and Usability
Wonky Widget Weather
I finally got the new OSX Tiger installed on my mac last week, which went amazingly smoothly and quickly. It's fairly impressive that you can just push in a dvd and upgrade the entire operating system without a glitch and all of your settings are remembered (although it's still highly recommended …
Rainy Day Disc Golf Action
What better on a rainy day than a little online disc golf action? A friend (he's on the left) just pointed me to a great little Flash disc golf game from Addicting Games that's actually pretty incredible. It even lets you throw curves to avoid the obstacles like ponds, rocks, trees, and garbage …
Can't See That? Tough Luck
I was just reading an ESPN article about the Final Four action in the NCAA tonight when I noticed a little accessibility pet peeve of mine worth mentioning. ESPN, like a number of other websites, has a handy little text-resizing widget on the side of articles (it's a little buried down there in …
One Step Closer
As of today, I'm one step closer to being a full-time mac user. I just bought a pretty little twelve inch iBook that I figure I'll be using about a third of the time in parallel with my Thinkpad. It's really nice having two quiet little systems that can share my desk with room to spare for all of …
NextMedia Festival 2005
Over the past few weeks, I've been working on designing the interface for the upcoming NextMedia International Interactive Media Festival that's going to be in Banff at the beginning of June. It's been a fun, if slightly ironic, project to be working on and the preliminary site was launched just a …
You Pimped My Firefox!
According to its bling designers: "Pimpzilla is a theme for the browser Firefox. It's also probably the most tacky & overdone piece of GUI design out there, aimed solely for true internet-connaisseurs [sic]. If you are into fur and lot's [sic] of bling, this is the theme for you." The bejewelled …
Favourite Favicons: Nine
What the heck, here are a ton of additions to the favicon collection I started what seems like ages ago. There are some really stellar examples here. I just ran into the Hotwheels one tonight to top off the new additions at thirty and who would have thunk that everyone's favourite German …
The Naming Game
Following a recent announcement from WebSideStory, a company that does web analytics, which expressed that Firefox's adoption rate has slowed somewhat, there have been a rash of news articles on the topic. Basically, this company released stats that suggested that after the initial excitement …
Extend My Firefox Please
This is an open call out there for a skilled (or not-so-skilled as I'm not so sure how complicated this is) Firefox extension programmer who'd be interested in doing the world some good. • I'd love to see a really simple Firefox extension that recognizes special link types and at the very least …
Flash in the Can
I've just registered for the upcoming Flash in the Can conference here in Toronto in ealry April. It sounds like a great line-up. James Patterson of Presstube fame, Dave Shea from Mezzoblue, Michael Cina of We Work for Them, and Joshua Davis who does just about everything are just a few of this …
