Inspiration

Dell’s earnings have dropped by 63% this quarter. However, Maximum Leader Michael Dell sees blue skies on the horizon and says “We are preparing for what we believe will be a powerful replacement cycle”. One of his wish-dreams is that next year businesses and governments will rush out to buy new computers to run Windows 7. Of course, this is the same guy who in 1997 said of Apple “I’d shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.”

Apple’s market capitalization passed Dell’s in January 2006.

Yesterday Dell’s stock closed at $11.48.

Yesterday Apple’s stock closed at $135.07.

In the beginning, there was the <font> tag. Then there was sIFR, followed by Cufón, and perhaps even @font-face. Soon there will by Typekit.

It’s hard to believe that anyone in real life could design something more ill-conceived than The Homer, but the Flying Ford Pinto was a contender. I found this gem under Wikipedia’s List of inventors killed by their own inventions. (They say ‘inventor’, but this has all the hallmarks of being designed by a committee…)

Source: Core-toons

Quince (pronounced kwinse) is a rich, interactive user experience (UX) design patterns library produced for the software community by Infragistics at no charge.

Source and commentary: Noise Between Stations

SWSX Typography: An invaluable web font & typography resource

A 25-minute interview with Peter Merholz of Adaptive Path on The History & Evolution of User Experience Design.

Source: Wired Blog Network