I've been keeping my eye out for more good favicons and I've found quite a few nice additions to the original collection. Again, let me know if there are any sites you'd recommend.  •  Choosing which favicons to include is obviously a really subjective process, but there are a few criteria that …

I just received my copy of 37signals' book Defensive Design for the Web this morning. Scanning through the introduction, it's interesting to see the same comments I had made a few months ago (long after the book went to print) about avoiding referring to people as users. Matthew Linderman and …

Google announced that they're launching a web-based email service called GMail that will allow people to store a gigabyte of emails and will enable them to search through their mail using search technology. Sounds cool... but can you trust any news report on or around April 1?  •  Google got in …

Over the past month or so I've been collecting some of my favourite favicons on the web for interest's and posterity's sake. In case you're unaware, favicons are the wee icons that are displayed occasionaly, it seems depending on how the stars are aligned, in the location bar of your browser or in …

I had always had the mistaken understanding that the acronym TWAIN (a standard for imaging peripherals) was a facetious title meaning "Technology Without an Interesting Name." In the past, I've even been duped into spreading this fallacy to friends and family. Well, I'm ignorant no longer. While …

Over the past twenty years or so there has been a marked move in the tourism industry to refer to tourists as visitors. I can still vaguely recall the days when local information centers were called tourist information and advertisements in magazines invited tourists to come and visit. Then, there …

I've been lucky enough to be involved in the recent rebranding process of Mozilla's Firefox project. When my cohort Steven Garrity was asked by the Mozilla organization to gather a team of designers to work on the rebranding of Firebird to Firefox a few months ago, I managed to kind of sneak in …

It just came to my attention that the Sloan website we developed has been featured on Adam Howell's Daily Standards. His site has consistently updated features on standards-based websites. It's a really nicely designed site itself and his content is superb (he even has RSS sydication). Really nice.

There's a good discussion going on over at Web Graphics challenging web designers to format their forms with CSS as opposed to tables. I've actually been meaning to write about this subject on this site and the discussion over there is a good catalyst.  •  At silverorange, we've been moving toward …