March 2012
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The Select Menu Navigation Pattern
Andy Clarke follows up on Brad Frost and my thoughts in The select menu navigation pattern. He sums it up way better than I did:
Select menus simply sweep navigation issues under the rug. They don’t help solve questions such as how to handle long lists or nested sub-navigation. I suspect they’re confusing to users too. In my mind there’s only one form element that should ever be used for...
February 2012
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Thoughts on Responsive Navigation
I’ve been thinking a lot about navigation in responsive designs lately, so when Brad Frost wrote Responsive Navigation Patterns a few days ago I thought I’d write down some thoughts on a couple of the methods he talks about.
Ultimately, mobile navigation should be like a good friend: there when you need them, but cool enough to give you your space.
The Select Menu
My main argument...
January 2012
1 post
“The ONLY day where:
Yo MTV Raps was on air
It was a clear and smogless day...”
– Brilliant. Donovan Strain found Ice Cubes ‘Good Day’
December 2011
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November 2011
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“You might almost think that the whole scheme had been cooked up by a bunch of...”
– The Social Graph is Neither
October 2011
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“That is, I believe in the potential of natural user interfaces (NUIs) to push us...”
– Highlighted by Alexis Fellenius in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
“A simple anchor link in the site’s header jumps people to navigation options at...”
– Highlighted by Alexis Fellenius in Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski
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“I sell an app for money, then I spend less than I make.”
– Love this answer by Marco Arment on the question: What is the Readability & Instapaper business model? Is it same for both? - Quora
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“So there have been one million pre-orders for Windows Phone 7 devices running...”
– Grubers comment on an interview with Windows Phone chief on what the 4s got “wrong”. Lovely.
August 2011
2 posts
“Animals, for example, range in size over ten orders of magnitude from a shrew to...”
– “Why Cities Keep on Growing, Corporations Always Die, and Life Gets Faster”
“In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish: love must be...”
– Picasso (via Catarina)
July 2011
2 posts
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“[The zone] is that magical place where you’ve managed to fit the entire...”
– Rands
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“They found a hundred and forty-eight major scientific discoveries that fit the...”
– In the Air by Malcolm Gladwell in The New Yorker
June 2011
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“Don’t be a donkey.”
– Derek Sivers
May 2011
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April 2011
2 posts
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
– Banksy
March 2011
2 posts
October 2010
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July 2010
6 posts
“Maybe what we call thought is just the expression of language in our brains...”
– The Monkey and the Thought Neuron | Dustin Curtis
“The worst thing you can ever do in life is set yourself goals. Goal orientation...”
– Stephen Fry
Pearls Before Breakfast →
The Washington Post made an experiment to answer the question: “Can one of the nation’s great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?”
Apparently not. Context is essential.
SimpleBits: On moving work →
It’s been interesting going through work that’s several years old. Much of it doesn’t exist anymore. Gone. Vanished. All that hard work, thinking, stressing… poof. It’s a nice reminder of what’s important, and the reality of the ever-evolving web. A lot of this junk is just temporary.
June 2010
6 posts
“When people need to kick back, have fun, and party, I will be there, unlike your...”
– I’M COMIC SANS, ASSHOLE by Mike Lacher (via a lot of people).
“Design is the conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order.”
– Victor Papanek
May 2010
5 posts
This Is Content →
But “content” isn’t the problem. The problem is believing that quality is optional, that publishing more is automatically better, that this nonsense and its ilk are anything but an antisocial exploitation of a temporary loophole, or that paint-by-numbers content or social media or SEO or anything else is going to save your ass when you’re not creating something genuinely valuable.
Great...
April 2010
2 posts
“Flash was created during the PC era – for PCs and mice. Flash is a successful...”
– Steve Jobs, Thoughts on Flash
March 2010
9 posts
GGRP Sound: Cardboard Record Player →
“A record player created from a piece of corrugated cardboard that folds into an envelope.”
“I like pop culture. But to me, even if it’s popular, there is a quality in the...”
– Michel Gondry
February 2010
3 posts
