A show about nothing, part 11
Adjusting position of dirty glasses and plates in dishwasher. “Geometry or physics?” I asked. “Generalized anxiety disorder,” she replied. [tags]tweets, mytweets, myglamorouslife, dishwasher,...
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The vanishing personal site
Our personal sites, once our primary points of online presence, are becoming sock drawers for displaced first-person content. We are witnessing the disappearance of the all-in-one, carefully designed...
View ArticleContent precedes design
Content precedes design. Design in the absence of content is not design, it’s decoration. [Cit.] [tags]design, definitions, tweets[/tags]
View ArticleA Tweet Too Far
Ariel Waldman’s “Twitter Refuses to Uphold Terms of Service” makes a disturbing read and a depressing revelation. To summarize: Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS), modeled on Flickr’s, forbid one Twitter...
View ArticleFish tacos FTW nom nom nom
You can look at Twitter as text messaging or as micro-blogging. If it’s text-messaging, of concern only to your closest friends, then content such as “Dude, where are you? We’re in the mezzanine” is...
View ArticleLube Tube
Friedrolling: vt. Gratuitously posting Basecamp referral links disguised as tweets or blog posts. “Man, damn the internets! That’s the third time today I’ve been Friedrolled when I thought I was...
View ArticleOn Spec
Spec = asking the world to have sex with you and promising a dinner date to one lucky winner. (In case you missed my Tweet.) Comments off. Feel free to respond on Twitter. [tags]spec, design, business,...
View ArticleAEA Seattle after-report
Armed with nothing more than a keen eye, a good seat, a fine camera, and the ability to use it, An Event Apart Seattle attendee Warren Parsons captured the entire two-day show in crisp and loving...
View ArticleRecent Tweets
The Ultimate Hipster Irony http://bigthink.com/ideas/18758 Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big Think: http://bigthink.com/ideas/18522 Seeing too many ultra-minimal/undesigned blogs labeled...
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You cannot copyright a Tweet
Contrary to popular belief and Twitter’s terms of service, you cannot copyright a Tweet. Under US law, copyright is granted on publication to “original works of authorship” finalized in “fixed forms...
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Blue Beanie Day Haiku Contest – Win Prizes from Peachpit and A Book Apart
Attention, web design geeks, contest fans, standards freaks, HTML5ophiles, CSSistas, grammarians, bookworms, UXers, designers, developers, and budding Haikuists. Can you do this? Do not tell me I Am...
View ArticleAnatomy of the Goodreads.com Friend Spam Dark Pattern
“Goodreads.com is social cataloging service for books. In this post you will see how they’ve used the friend spam dark pattern, but how they’ve also failed to make it go viral. This makes it...
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No comment
Starting a personal Tumblr. “Stuff @zeldman Says to Me Right Before I Speak”. Today’s installment? “You look like a quaker.” — Sarah Parmenter (@sazzy) June 8, 2015 The post No comment appeared first...
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Usability Testing
USABILITY TESTING doesn’t reveal problems in your product so much as it uncovers arrogance in your thinking. # The post Usability Testing appeared first on Zeldman on Web & Interaction Design.
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Two Kinds of People
THERE ARE two kinds of people: those who hold the door open for others, and those who walk through without thanking me. # The post Two Kinds of People appeared first on Zeldman on Web & Interaction...
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The Year in Design
Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first. Websites and apps alike should remove distractions and let people interact as directly as possible with...
View ArticleA show about nothing, part 11
Adjusting position of dirty glasses and plates in dishwasher. “Geometry or physics?” I asked. “Generalized anxiety disorder,” she replied. [tags]tweets, mytweets, myglamorouslife, dishwasher,...
View ArticleTwitter Blues
Before the present owner, I was a Twitter Blue customer, because I always pay for software—to support its creators and help prevent it from disappearing, as so many great websites and platforms have...
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Valediction.
I started using Twitter before the dawn of the iPhone. Back then, in 2006, it was a fun, funky, fully functional (if barebones) beta messaging service used mainly by The People of the Web—the kind of...
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