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Douglas Bowman : Great Designs Should Be Experienced and Not Seen - The best design is that which does its job and stays out of the way. Jared Spool on invisible design: While all these things are what the designers at Netflix work hard on every day, they go unmentioned by their customers. It's not because these aspec
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Douglas Bowman : Choices - Craig directed me to this piece today after I complimented him on the new version of Twitterrific for the iPhone, stating how much I love seeing different approaches to Twitter client design. I hadn’t seen his post (from December 2008) before today,
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Douglas Bowman : Time to move beyond 960? - Cameron asks the inevitable question about width on the Web. Probably not time yet for mainstream. But for showcases of design, why not start experimenting with the new real estate? link
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Douglas Bowman : Tal Leming on Web Fonts - Seemingly reasonable middle-ground suggestions here that would allow web typography to move forward, allow people to use all the free fonts they want, yet continue to allow type designers to earn a living. link
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Douglas Bowman : In Defense of Eye Candy - Stephen Anderson: The more we learn about people, and how our brains process information, the more we learn the truth of that phrase: form and function aren’t separate items. If we believe that style somehow exists independent of functionality, that we
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Douglas Bowman : Fluid Images - Nice going, Ethan. Definitely one to keep in the ol’ bag o’ tricks. link
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Douglas Bowman : Attribution and Affiliation on All Things Digital - Andy Baio digs into the reuse of certain content by AllThingsD for their Voices section: Ultimately, if authors are happy, there’s no problem. But it seems like there’s a divide between two types of writers online: unaffiliated independent blo
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Douglas Bowman : Cufón - Fast text replacement with canvas and VML – no Flash or images required. Oooh. Must experiment with this soon. (via @hicksdesign)link [via]
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Douglas Bowman : Adobe's plugin for Photoshop CS4 to disable canvas rotation via the trackpad - I’m linking to this because I’ve been stung by the problem too. The issue is with new MacBooks and MacBook Pros with the button-less trackpad. These trackpads have no dead zone like the old trackpads did. So until I get accustomed to using the
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Douglas Bowman : Accent Folding for Auto-Complete - Carlos Bueno highlights an oft overlooked aspect of internationalization. His address book auto-complete example at the beginning of the article crystalized the problem for me immediately. The solution he discusses for a fuzzy character match dubbed accen
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Douglas Bowman : 50 Useful Coding Techniques - Smashing Magazine rounds up a few tricks for “CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms”. Not everything in here looks useful to me, but I did notice a few gems while quickly browsing through. Bookmarked for later investigation. link
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Douglas Bowman : Looking Back at Google in 2009 - A fairly thorough retrospective of Google and the huge impact the company had over the past year. Check out the list of releases and new ideas Google pushed in 2009. Impressive and scary at the same time. I wish the little blip about me leaving earlier th
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Douglas Bowman : Success secrets of graphic designer superstars - Worth skimming through, if even just for the eye candy. But also for each designer’s nuggets of wisdom. link
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Douglas Bowman : Perfect Pitch - Helping Adactio get that perfect pitch. To nail it, even. You should probably link to his page too, if you’re so inclined to fight DMCA take-downs for the sake of SEO. link
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Douglas Bowman : Why Bottom Posting Sucks - I agree. Time for the end of bottom-posting arguments. link
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Douglas Bowman : A Deep Breath - You’re encouraging the random and random is how you’re going to win. Random is how you’re going to discover a path through a problem that no one else has found and that starts with breathing deeply. Even though the subject matter and approach differ
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Douglas Bowman : Introducing Typekit - Emphasis is my own… As a Typekit user, you’ll have access to our library of high-quality fonts. Just add a line of JavaScript to your markup, tell us what fonts you want to use, and then craft your pages the way you always have. Except now you’l
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Douglas Bowman : Universal Internet Explorer 6 CSS - Mr. Clarke advocates creating one single universal style sheet to handle all styling in IE6, and to stop worrying about making content in IE6 look anything like the high-end experience. I’m now advocating to my clients (and to you), that where feasi
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Douglas Bowman : Welcome, Wired. We call this land "Internet" - Interesting take on the future of Wired (mag vs. website). Wired is great print, but if the magazine can’t make money and is shuttered, taking the website down with it, I’m going to be livid. Not that making money online is easy—it’s n
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Douglas Bowman : You cannot copyright a Tweet - Though this may not completely eliminate liability if a publisher or artist rewraps a whole series of your tweets in a different shell, Zeldman makes an interesting point on the limitations of copyright in regards to short phrases (i.e. tweets): As messag [via]
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Douglas Bowman : You cannot copyright a Tweet - Though this may not completely eliminate liability if a publisher or artist rewraps a whole series of your tweets in a different shell, Zeldman makes an interesting point on the limitations of copyright in regards to short phrases (i.e. tweets): As messag [via]
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Douglas Bowman : Accent Folding for Auto-Complete - Carlos Bueno highlights an oft overlooked aspect of internationalization. His address book auto-complete example at the beginning of the article crystalized the problem for me immediately. The solution he discusses for a fuzzy character match dubbed accen
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Douglas Bowman : 50 Useful Coding Techniques - Smashing Magazine rounds up a few tricks for “CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms”. Not everything in here looks useful to me, but I did notice a few gems while quickly browsing through. Bookmarked for later investigation. link
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Douglas Bowman : Looking Back at Google in 2009 - A fairly thorough retrospective of Google and the huge impact the company had over the past year. Check out the list of releases and new ideas Google pushed in 2009. Impressive and scary at the same time. I wish the little blip about me leaving earlier th
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Douglas Bowman : Success secrets of graphic designer superstars - Worth skimming through, if even just for the eye candy. But also for each designer’s nuggets of wisdom. link
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