August, 2009

Links for August 31st

Design in Open Source | Mark Boulton

This is a great post in itself, and it also has an important conversation occurring. Though it specifically relates to the open source world, I would ask any designers who work with developers, as well as any developers who work with designers, to read it.

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community

programming

design

Rescuing the Other Jaycees | onehandclapping

Julie reminds us to care about sex trafficking, even when it doesn't reach the 24/7 news channels. As another reminder for those who share a city with me, Atlanta is one of the worst cities in the country for sex trafficking.

tags:

activism

human-rights

abolition

Links for August 30th

The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

The Washington Post defends torture. "It places the Washington Post as an adjunct to the Bush-Cheney policy of torturing thousands of prisoners across every theater of war and across the globe."

tags:

journalism

torture

politics

Links for August 27th

John Nack on Adobe: Information about Photoshop CS3 on Snow Leopard

Many people are getting paranoid about the idea that Adobe CS3 apps may not work in Snow Leopard. At least in the case of Photoshop, fears seem to be unfounded.

tags:

apple

photoshop

adobe

The American Way Of Torture | The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

America's way of doing torture.

tags:

politics

torture

andrew-sullivan

Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study | cxpartners

Some great guidelines for usability of web forms. It's really sad how many forms don't follow any of these guidelines.

tags:

design

usability

user-experience

Mark Van Steenwyk in Atlanta

August 26th, 2009

I want to draw attention here to the fact that Mark Van Steenwyk is in Atlanta until next Tuesday.

Links for August 26th

Typedia: Blog: Behind the Typedia Logo Design

Gives great insights into the design process for a really nice logo – the one created for Typedia.

tags:

logos

design

typography

Time to stop showing clients static design visuals | For A Beautiful Web

I return to this post so often that I didn't remember to add it here. So here it is – a solid argument for presenting design prototypes in HTML and CSS, instead of static images sent from Photoshop/Fireworks. Honestly, I still haven't moved into this yet, but it is something I want to at least attempt, and see how it works for me.

tags:

html

css

design

Carsonified » Top 10 UX Myths

Great thoughts on user experience myths. I hear some of these everyday, and have bought into some of them. Wise ways to counter them here, as well.

tags:

usability

user-experience

design

The Gloves Come Off Against Western Theology | Everyday Liturgy

Interesting thoughts on the theological understanding that postmodernism is bringing to Western Christianity, that Eastern Orthodox Christianity has always had. I'm fascinated by Orthodox theology, though I haven't spent as much time with it as I'd like. This is another reason to do so.

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emergent

postmodernism

theology

orthodox

Links for August 25th

Report Provides New Details on C.I.A. Prisoner Abuse – NYTimes.com

"A Central Intelligence Agency inspector general’s report set to be released Monday provides new details about abuses that took place inside the agency’s secret prisons, including details of how C.I.A. officers carried out mock executions and threatened at least one prisoner with a gun and a power drill."

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torture

Some jury duty reflections

August 22nd, 2009

I spent the last several days in jury duty for Dekalb County, Georgia, starting on Tuesday and ending on Friday.

John Piper and actions of God

August 21st, 2009

The last couple of days, there has been a lot of talk about John Piper, and a blog post he wrote about a tornado in Minneapolis.

Links for August 20th

Draw attention with mark | HTML5 Doctor

A new element, mark, appears in HTML5 with some great potential, especially for things like search results. I could see this being very impactful for SEO in the coming years.

tags:

html

html5

Links for August 18th

  Auto-Complete Field with jQuery – Code Explained by fromvega.com

Example of how to use jQuery and PHP to auto-complete form fields.

tags:

programming

ajax

php

javascript

jquery