Web & Interactive

Making Sense of the Data, Part 3 This post is Part Three of a series adapted from my presentation at the 2011 HOW Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco (Part 1 is here and Part 2 is here). I included a variety of slide transitions in my talk, so in some cases below, I've consolidated [...]

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Tell us what you think about SOPA and PIPA in the comments section below. (Note that Wikipedia left the entries for both bills online, although its site is blacked out.) Here's a quick digest of the SOPA/PIPA black-out protests: The New York Times' take Stewart Smith (profiled in our October issue) designed a bookmarklet to unblock Wikipedia [...]

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This post is Part Two (see part 1 here) of a series adapted from my presentation at the 2011 HOW Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco. I included a variety of slide transitions in my talk, so in some cases below, I've consolidated slide groups into animated GIFs. Keep your eye out for those so [...]

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This post is an adaptation of my presentation at the 2011 HOW Interactive Design Conference in San Francisco. I included a variety of slide transitions in my talk, so in some cases below, I've consolidated slide groups into animated GIFs. Keep your eye out for those so you don't miss any details. Do you remember [...]

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We used to joke around the office that our work amounted to an unending cycle; "Another day, another rectangle," we'd say. And in some ways, that still works. After all, new devices are popping into existence all the time; each one with its own unique, glowing, rectangular screen into which will eventually be squeezed the [...]

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Andrew Jones, publisher of the photography journal, Once Magazine, says "We think that our approach to multimedia in the infant field of tablet publishing is an effort not to be ignored. The basic storytelling unit is the fullscreen photograph. And we have excited the professional photography community with our new revenue-sharing business model. Which means [...]

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Ten seconds. That's how long you have to get their attention. They've got plenty of other options, you know. Millions of them. Seriously, ten seconds at most. After all, ten seconds can be a long time. Just so we're all clear on how long this really is, here's ten seconds: Click me to listen! and [...]

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The Web Designer's Idea Book has finally gone digital. Author and web developer Patrick McNeil recently celebrated the release of The Web Designer’s Idea App, Version 2. With its abundance of inspiration and design examples, the app makes web design accessible for all designers, no matter their skill level or proximity to a computer. We sat [...]

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In talking with entrepreneurs of many stripes over the past year, I've heard the following hypnotic refrain repeated over and over again: "If we design a beautiful user experience, we've got what we need to launch a successful business." Whether uttered by corporate executives or designers fresh out of school, I've been surprised by this [...]

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Imagine you decide to quit your job, move to a cozy, small town, and set up a shop of your own. It'd be great. Nothing flashy, of course; something nice, like a fine hats shop. Yeah, that's the ticket. You've always liked hats, and really, there aren't enough hat shops out there. Your new community [...]

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