Design ARCHIVES
09 March 2007
Last weekend's New York Times Magazine ran an article entitled "From 0 to 60 to World Domination" about Toyota's remarkable success. Some of the reasons cited were its focus on long-term strategy (such as fuel economy and the youth market)...
10 April 2006
I'd long ago given up in the race for resident font geek, my onetime street cred having long since dwindled to a snowy fate. (Except for a spotting of Treefrog in the sign for the Central Park Zoo's Leaping Frog...
28 March 2006
Ben MacNeil has launched the much-anticipated Trixie Tracker, a public subscription-based version of The Trixie Update. What am I doing reading a baby blog when I'm at least 0.8x10-9 years away from such procreation? The data visualization, of course. Throughout...
23 March 2006
Ever wonder how those portraits next to Wall Street Journal bylines got created? Noli Novak is one of four or five stipple portrait artists producing "hedshots" using good old-fashioned pen and ink. The black-and-white engraved style adds a stain of...
03 October 2005
Kottke has a great idea for a mobile phone feature: speed dial for both your recipient and your message. This is all fine and dandy for frequent chore-related communication ("Hey carpooler, I'm outside your door now"), but he takes it...
24 August 2005
Without this interview with John Gruber at GUIdebook. Case in point: Let’s peek into the future now. Dare to predict the interface changes in Leopard, and how will it stack against Longhorn? I wouldn’t be surprised if the horizontal stripes...
04 May 2005
I was chatting with a friend/mentor/colleague/Brotha (I'm not sure how else to describe somebody who is a peer via some paths and a superior via others) about a gizmo that I want to share with the world. Apparently he was...
11 March 2005
Heads-down and absurdly focused, I spent a three hours last night pixel-pushing, creating a Flash animation for one last homework assignment of the quarter. The Product Design program's rule of thumb is that student projects should always be breadbox-size or...
01 March 2005
Can you tell the origins of a website? Whether someone used Photoshop, Illustrator, or Fireworks to create their graphics? Whether a blog is powered by Movable Type or Wordpress? Coke vs. Pepsi? I've been noticing trends, and I think I...
23 February 2005
Status update: I think we're at a breaking point here, y'all. I've designed and coded and tweaked templates for all sorts of views and archives, and sketched out wireframes for a bunch more. It's helped immensely to think of this...
23 February 2005
If, in attempting to create category archive templates in Movable Type, you find that your lists of categories themselves are not appearing on aforementioned category archive pages despite using the VERY SAME CODE, do not fear! A quick Googling will...
06 September 2002
What I would love to see (and use!) is an instant messaging app with an interface modeled after Adobe palettes. In a standard, consolidated view, you'd have just two windows. One would be the buddy list, and the second would...
28 January 2002
Yes! Score another for the dark—um, I mean green ketchup—side. Unfortunately, that only serves to cancel out the negatory vote of my CS section leader, who abhors green ketchup and blue-filling Oreos. Fortunately, though, he brings us chocolate-filling Oreos and...
01 December 2001
I just spent the past hour and a half removing all of the font tags on all of the pages and, instead, linking the pages to a single style sheet. It's been a while since I've actually manipulated HTML instead...
31 March 2001
If you talk to me online, please inquire often about scrapbook status. Recently, this site has taken precedence. Musn't give in, despite embarassing and hopeless 11-month lag! Was supposed to get a packet from Stanford in the mail today, including...