In his article “Divide,” Jack Shedd discusses how idealism (and ego) can divide designers and developers. The bottom line (literally):
They are one team, which produce one product. Stick their desks together and see what happens.
Read the juicy details.
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Some interesting thoughts on use of modal windows in your UI design from the Signal vs. Noise blog. Interested in your thoughts…
If you have ever kicked around the idea of starting your own company that is internet-related, then you may find this article useful. After weighing in on pros-and-cons, it turns out that the author is strongly in favor of product-related businesses. Find out why!
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So, which is better for the web designer: Photoshop or Fireworks?
This article has on hand several “experts” offering interesting comments on the pros/cons of Photoshop and Fireworks. If you have used both of these programs you probably already have your own opinion – but read on to see what others think (and maybe you will even change your mind)!
I’m sure I wasn’t the only one who was disappointed that Cardinal Ratzinger didn’t honor the memory of the previous two popes named John Paul by calling himself Pope George Ringo, but his endorsement of the mobile web is pretty impressive.
Just as impressive to me is this NY Times article on web design and the iPhone. If you’ve ever had to deal with help desk issues that were the result of a page design done by an artist with a humongous monitor (like a customer saying “I can’t see the whole page and it won’t let me scroll”) or if you just find the look of overly busy web pages to be tedious and un-user-friendly, you may enjoy this.
Also created by Aza Raskin is a site named Songza. Though I haven’t dug into the site, check out the nice mechanism for taking more than one action on a link.
Source: Signal vs. Noise