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nelson : Fallout design - Interesting commentary on how the game and narrative work
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Greg Storey : "I want to know how you would define it based on your personal experience as a designer." - Merriam-Webster can suck it.
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Rod Begbie : Poolga. iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers for the rest of us. - Some gorgeous photos and illustrations, at just the right size to be your iPhone wallpaper. [via] #
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Richard Rutter : Top Ten Typefaces Used by Book Design Winners - Splendid list on FontFeed. I loves me a bit of Scala..
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dbow : Experience vs. Function — a Beautiful UI is Not Always the Best UI
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Linkorama : 42 Information Packed Twitter Backgrounds - including mine
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Greg Storey : Dear Santa, I like posters. - Oh and look--ha, ha—that link takes you to a fabulous poster store.
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nelson : Java2D fonts - Surprise, turns out rewriting Microsoft and Apple font rendering code doesn't always work out
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Richard Rutter : Making decisions about user research - Useful thinking process and tool for justifying (how much) user research to do.
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Greg Storey : Core77 visits NASA's industrial design team. - Way too damn cool.
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nelson : Election change map - good critique of a good NYT visualization
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Greg Storey : Edward Hopper's sketchbook. - Check out page 37.
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deusx : PHP: rfc:namespaceseparator [PHP Wiki] - "The purpose of this RFC is to decide on a namespace separator Criterions (1) type-ability (how easy is it to type the separator) (2) typo-vulnerability (how easy is it to make a typo and get an unwanted behavior without a error/warning) (3) parse
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Greg Storey : "There's an opportunity to bring humanity back, both in terms of the design but also in the way we engage consumers." - And somehow the new Pepsi logo does that. Huh.
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Greg Storey : J. Hampton Apothecary. - Screw your five-bladed monster.
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Greg Storey : Counterproductive airport signage - Airports in general are counterproductive.
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Greg Storey : Joshua asks if designers are marketers. - Designers are just designers until they start using numbers and strategy as part of their duties.
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Greg Storey : Chicago Tribune redesign. - Drew, we'll be going over this when you get into the office.
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Greg Storey : Buttons! Buttons! Buttons! - Must read for any designer.
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Greg Storey : Paul Smith, fashion designer and design thief. - Will be interesting to see how Paul responds.
Andy Baio : Flight404's Processing flocking experiment turned into $235 Paul Smith shirt - Robert finds it flattering, but it's bad form to turn this into this without credit
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wearehugh : typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML
Andy Baio : Typeface.js, rendering Truetype fonts with Javascript, Canvas, and VML - awesome hack lets you deliver custom fonts on the web without Flash; works on the iPhone, too [via]
Rod Begbie : typeface.js -- Rendering text with Javascript, <canvas>, and VML - Amazingly clever piece of hackery. Embed fonts seamlessly in your pages in a manner that works with all released major browsers (including iPhone), but degrades gracefully. Need to do some playing with this… [via] #
Simon Willison : typeface.js - typeface.js. Outstanding hack—renders custom fonts using VML in IE and canvas in everything else, using fonts that are defined as a set of vector paths stored using JSON.
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Richard Rutter : Five second test – simple online usability test - Kinda-neat (if somewhat over simplified).
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Greg Storey : Mr. Warren on the challenges of coding the new Housing Works website. - Now if we could get Mr. Mall to write about the design challenges that would be super duper.
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Greg Storey : Pepsi gets all Obama. - There's a lot of Hope for Change in that rebranding.
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