April 2010
47 posts
The Teriyaki Date →
The Oatmeal goes on a date and has some issues with stir fry.
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March 2010
52 posts
Quick Tip: How to Target IE6, IE7, and IE8... →
Two months ago, I, in a video quick tip, demonstrated how to use the underscore and star hacks to target Internet Explorer 6 and 7 in your stylesheets. In today’s quick tip, we’ll take things one…
Word-Wrap: Force Text to Wrap →
Today I’m going to talk about a rarely used but extremely useful CSS property, the word-wrap. You can force long (unbroken) text to wrap in a new line by specifying break-word with the…
A List Apart: Articles: Writing an Interface Style... →
Take a look at any CSS-based website design gallery, and you’ll see it’s obvious that beautiful interfaces are being designed and developed in amazing quantities. I frequently look to these sites…
A List Apart: Articles: The Discipline of Content... →
We, the people who make websites, have been talking for fifteen years about user experience, information architecture, content management systems, coding, metadata, visual design, user research, and…
Somewhere, Superficial, & So Much More:... →
Lead gen pages are often misunderstood as standalone, single-page designs. There’s a science behind A/B testing and optimizing lead gen pages, but there’s also a component of creative user experience…
Shaun Inman - .net magazine →
High profile designer and app developer Shaun Inman talks to Oliver Lindberg about how tinkering around transformed his career, the challenges of developing for the iPhone, his fear of magic and why…
The Death Of The Blog Post - Smashing Magazine →
Let’s face it: the classic blog post is boring.
Barring the text and images, each one generally has the exact same layout. We see little originality from one post to the next. Of course,…
My Love/Hate Affair With Typekit →
Georgia and Verdana, Lucida and (to a lesser extent) Arial and Times New Roman have served us well. For fifteen years, these cross-platform default fonts have been faithful…
Not Supported →
Leave it to PPK to come out with a bold statement like, “CSS vendor prefixes considered harmful”. Moreso,
It’s time to abolish all vendor prefixes. They’ve become solutions for which there is…
Why I don’t get SEO →
I like to think of myself as an intelligent guy. I have worked on the web since 1994 and like to stay informed. However, over that time I have never understood website owners’ obsession with
Scrolling and Attention (Jakob Nielsen's... →
Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold.
A quick play through of the sample level I brought... →
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Can’t wait til this game comes out.
A quick play through of the sample level I brought with me to SXSW last week. With commentary.
The Tragic Comedy that is Rich Text Editing on the... →
The problem is this: clients want a word processor, but developers want clean semantic HTML. Web page rich text editors were supposed to be the answer. As far back as IE4 Microsoft have…
Twitter Blog: @anywhere →
When we designed Twitter, we took a different approach—we didn’t require a relationship model like that of a social network. Keeping things open meant you could browse our site to read tweets from…
HTML5 structure—nav, aside, figure, & footer ・... →
After talking about & , and & , I’m going to look at , , and , before looking at sectioning content, heading content and outlines:
HTML5 structure—header, hgroup & h1-h6 ・... →
In the previous article I discussed the differences between , and . The next pair of new HTML5 elements I’ll discuss are and :
HTML5 structure—div, section & article ・... →
lest I forget (Oli Studholme)
Color Theory for Designer, Part 3: Creating Your... →
In the previous two parts of this series on color theory, we talked mostly about the meanings behind colors and color terminology. While this information is important, I’m sure a lot of people were…
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of... →
Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal…
Color Theory For Designers, Part 2: Understanding... →
If you’re going to use color effectively in your designs, you’ll need to know some color concepts and color theory terminology. A thorough working knowledge of concepts like chroma, value and…
Stickybits App – Tag Real Objects With Digital... →
Stickybits is an app and website which lets you use your iphone or android phone to scan in a barcode containing any kind of digital file from text, images, video and PDFs. The…
Does Google personalised listings affect your... →
This post is brought to you by Rosenfeld Media. Rosenfeld Media publishes short, practical, and useful books and webinars on user experience design. Their products exist to help…
Aha! Moments When Learning Git | BetterExplained →
Git is a fast, flexible but challenging distributed version control system. Before jumping in: Understand regular version control…
A successful Git branching model →
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Absolutely incredible mental model of handling GIT.
In this post I present the development model that I’ve introduced for all of my projects (both at work and private) about a…
How to Make Your Client's Logo Bigger Without... →
Industrial Design content and community site - articles, discussions, interviews and resources.
Setting rather than Resetting Default Styling →
Editors Note: In his first article for Think Vitamin Thierry Koblentz discusses the issue of “resetting” your CSS.
“base.css” versus “reset.css”
For a long time, the very first…
How moodboards can save time, money and your... →
A podcast for those who design, develop and run websites.
TextExpander 3 makes short work of keyboard... →
Filed under: Software
TextExpander, one of my very most favorite (yes, I like it that much) utilities has been updated to version 3. This is a major update and renovation of the…
Lindsay Lohan is stupid →
You can read the article on the NY Post about this dumb bitch suing E-Trade because she thinks she has single name recognition.
And…. here’s a picture of her nipple.
Don't Blame Your Community: Ad Blocking Is Not... →
Every so often we hear about a random blog or website that freaks out and claims that ad blockers are “stealing” or somehow damaging websites. But it’s quite a surprise to see a similar argument…
Common Questions About Design Professionalism →
The design profession is full of happy folks, and understanding why so many designers enjoy their work is not hard. But not all are so happy. If you’re not careful,…
Freelancing Together →
Editors Note: In his first article for Think Vitamin Matthew Smith, Principal Designer at Squared Eye Design, discusses the benefits, risks and infrastructure required to work…
My race is “American” →
Mark Krikorian is fighting back against Census form race politics and urging you to do the same:
Fully one-quarter of the space on this year’s form is taken up with questions of race and…
“There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to...”
– Teddy Roosevelt (via True Americanism)
Cut the Corporate Speak →
Do your eyes glaze over with the vacant stare of a dairy cow when reading most company websites, brochures, case studies, and white papers? Once I interviewed with a company whose tag line was …
Seven45 Studios ups the ante for music games,... →
We’ve seen “real” guitars made to “work” with existing music-band titles, and we’ve even seen MIDI guitars play nice with Rock Band, but we’ve yet to see a company design a game from the…
IEBlog : How IE8 Determines Document Mode →
This post describes how IE8 determines what Document Mode such as Quirks or Standards Modes to use for rendering websites. This topic is important for site developers and consumers. It’s related to…
Speed Up with CSS3 Gradients | CSS-Tricks →
WebKit browsers paved the way with CSS based gradients. Now Firefox 3.6 is out and is supporting them as well, which makes using them for progressive
Quick Tip: My Favorite New IDE: WebStorm →
Over the weekend, Elijah Manor tweeted about a new IDE, called WebStorm, that is currently being offered as a public preview, from JetBrains. After spending a few hours with it, I’m extremely…
Ken Fisher of Ars Technica on How Ad Blockers Hurt... →
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I find that the sites I’m really interesting, I also enjoy their ads because most of the time they’re relevant to my interests; however the ads that have nothing to do with my…
Fucking Windows →
Hilarious website, but even cooler development tactics.
Tumblelogs →
On my web travels the other day, I came across a new (to me) kind of weblog, the tumblelog. Here are a few examples to get the gist of what a tumblelog is: hit projectionist first and then …
The Shit Box →
The Future Of CSS Typography →
There has been an increasing and sincere interest in typography on the web over the last few years. Most websites rely on text to convey their messages, so it’s not…
The User Centered Design Conundrum →
When I mention design research to clients unfamiliar with user–centered design, I am often confronted with a blank stare. At first, I thought that I simply might be doing it wrong: selecting the…
Forrst: Where Designers Who Code meet Developers... →
Editors Note: Forrst is still in beta and as such you will need an account to view the links referenced below. Kyle, the creator of Forrst, has kindly offered 250 Think Vitamin readers an…
Keep Your Font Stacks from Falling Over →
For most web designers and developers, testing is a huge part of the job. They’ll devote a considerable amount of time ensuring that their sites appear similar, if not identical, in a wide…
Use fine-grain volume control in 10.5 | Mac OS X |... →
Learn how to gain more control over the volume changing keys in Leopard.