business models
Page loading speed,Ā readabilityĀ and efficiency have all been topics of debate here in the last six months, driven by great work by some of our architects. This is, I think, A Good Thing. Itās both good site hygiene. Increasing broadband speeds have made many people complacent about how
covers
Lovely video of a cover illustration being created: We need more really great magazine covers. [via A Hundred Dance Moves Per Minute [http://sgrblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bob-staake.html]]
design
(Liveblogging ā prone to error, typos and inaccuracy. And possible bias in this sessionā¦) Starting the second day of Like Minds in the Delighting Users session, and feeling slightly suspicious, because Iāve just realised that itās essentially a Windows Phone 7-derived session. That said, the new mobile OS has
Blogs
Iām down in Brighton for dConstruct [http://2010.dconstruct.org/], a conference Iāve heard plenty about over the years, but never actually managed to attend. And so far, itās proving an interesting morning. Itās certainly challenging some of the preconceived notions I see in play in
creators
Lurking around in my browser tabs: - [On Makers and Managers](http://kristinelowe.blogs.com/kristine_lowe/2010/01/on-makers-and-managers-and-how-to-manage-your-day.html) ā good look at the tension between these two roles that should be familiar to most people in journalism - [The Death of Tag Clouds](http://woorkup.com/2010/01/
design
I donāt write much about print on here, but long-time readers will know Iām not a āprint is deadā type. I do believe that print will have to change and evolve to deal with the changing environment ā much as theatre had to after the coming of cinema and
design
I have a pet theory, one that is not widely shared amongst my colleagues. I think that what we now know as news sites will come to resemble what we now know as blogs. I donāt mean this in the broader sense of the conversational use of blogs so
berlin
Leisa Reichelt ā Drupal.org redesign How do you design for a large Open Source Community? That was the problem Leisa Reichelt [http://www.disambiguity.com/] faced when commissioned to do the redesign of the Drupal.org [http://www.drupal.org/] site. āYou canāt do it behind closed doors,ā she
3 mobile
OK. Itās small and itās petty, but thereās something irritating me about the software I use to dial up with that 3 mobile broadband dongle. It has no icon.To be more accurate, it uses the generic application icon for all Mac OSX apps. Cāmon guys,
design
One of the most peripheral presentations has just turned into one of the most interesting. Robert Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/] briefly hijacked Philippe Starckās presentation by presenting him with an Amazon Kindle, in the interests of getting a design critique. Starckās verdict? He suggested you need the minimum
design
Look at this icon.Itās the iTunes icon, as seen in the latest version of the Mac operating system.Can you see anything wrong with it?Think about it.Itās made up of two elements: a CD and a representation of music notation. That made perfect sense back
architecture
The BBC has done a rather nice photographic round-up of the top 10 UK buildings, as chosen by the Commision for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE). In pictures: UKās top 10 new buildings