Category: web

• IxD / Dear everyone, I hope you can find my albums in flickr, ixd, web · Aug 26, 22:01

  What we have here is both a failure to communicate and an ingenious workaround. To Kristen & Rob: Kudos.

• Muxtape / Non-interface interface excellence in ixd, music, web · May 8, 22:55

  Muxtape has blown up — just a matter of time, I guess — but I hope this doesn’t mean that they’ll add a bunch of “features” to it. It’s basically two things — the homepage where you pick a mix, and the player where you listen — and it doesn’t need much more. Really! Please! [...]

• Flickr / Okay, I take it all back. in flickr, photo, visual, web · May 7, 18:11

  See, I criticize Flickr, and then this thing comes along to demonstrate once and for all its inherent goodness. No Flickr stylez or post-processing necessary. Via Sorry I Missed Your Party and BuzzFeed.

• The Flickr style / Ugh in flickr, ixd, photo, visual, web · May 7, 01:16

  It’s hard to ignore the fact that Flickr promotes a distinct style of photography; I say “promotes” because Flickr’s “Explore” tab displays photos that are deemed “interesting” by Flickr’s “interestingness” algorithm, and the photos in this area are generally characterized by what many are now calling “Flickr style.” This is shorthand for “extensively post-processed” — [...]

• Idols / Khoi Vinh of NYT.com in ideas, ixd, web · Apr 23, 15:55

  I’ve followed Khoi Vinh’s excellent blog, Subtraction, for a long time. A couple of years ago, he became the Design Director of the New York Times website, and in the meantime the site has really changed, for the better, mostly, I’d say. This week he’s doing a Q&A about his work, the NYT, design, and [...]

• Books / Pelican covers in inside art, lit, visual, web · Apr 16, 02:03

  things magazine has amassed an incredible index of Pelican book covers from the 1930s through the 80s. The one above is from 1968. Check it.

• Photos / Found on FFFFOUND in photo, tip, visual, web · Oct 3, 00:37

  Some great stuff on FFFFOUND, a social bookmarking service for images. It’s in private beta, and I’ll be curious how they maintain the current, continual high quality, as in images like this …

  Like this stuff by Andrei Robu.

  Via kottke.

• UX / Flickr pisses me off in flickr, ixd, tech, web · Aug 23, 21:09

  Yes, I appreciate Flickr. After all, it allows me to store my photos online, share them with others, and display them on my website. Yay. Thanks for that. Still, it frustrates me daily. Here’s why:
  Sequence of photo display is set in stone
  If I drag a dozen pictures into the Flickr Uploadr, God only knows the [...]

• Adaptive Path UX Week / One of ux, one of ux¹ in ixd, tech, web · Aug 21, 14:40

  I attended (and spoke at) my first UX Week last week in Washington DC, and it lived up to its billing as a good ol’ time. I met many amazing people, stayed out too late, and yet was still motivated to get up early every morning to see the keynotes. That’s saying something. Most conferences [...]

• Dream come true / My Simpsons character in cinema, web · Jun 27, 20:11

  Thanks to a tip from fellow Simpsons fanatic and Cooper colleague Chris Noessel, I discovered that I could generate a Simpsons character with my likeness on the Simpsons Movie site. Holy crap. Truly, a dream come true. Now the only thing left is to have my likeness drawn in the Wall Street Journal “hedcut” style [...]

• NFL conundrums / Culpepper or Garcia? Jamarcus Russell or Brady Quinn? in web · Apr 25, 21:11

  Overheard on College Humor’s weekly sports chat, Straight Cash, Homey:
  Ethan: Who has the better NFL career: Russell or Quinn?
  Amir: That’s an impossible question. I couldn’t even tell you whos having a better career: Culpepper or Garcia, and they’ve had like 15 seasons between them. I’ll guess for you though: Russell. He’s bigger, faster, and stronger. [...]

• Living all over / Google-mapping my life in san francisco, the ancient past, visual, web · Apr 19, 20:09

  So how come I just now learned that you can create your own Google Maps mark-up? As a lover of both maps and personal documents, the ability to customize an online map has the potential to have a Shabu-like effect on my life. The above map has all the places I’ve lived in the Bay [...]

• Design / The Beatles & collaboration in music, web · Dec 7, 22:01

  A lot of collaborative work goes on at Cooper (where I work). Designers team up to understand a problem, or to envision a better way of solving it. Sometimes, we collaborate with clients to figure out what’s possible and where possibility and desirability meet. In any case, it’s hard to trace back any particular idea [...]

• My New York Times? Not quite. in ixd, new york, web · Sep 7, 21:18

  The NYT just rolled out a beta of something they’re calling MyTimes. As a daily reader of both the print and online editions, I’m intrigued by new developments and ideas at the NYT, and I’ve been pleased with their recent site redesign. MyTimes, however, strikes me as somewhat misguided.
  First off, the name MyTimes sounds like [...]