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Mid-April Design Linkage

In addition to all the GTD links, there were some excellent Web design links. Here are some of the best (IMO)

Getting Creative with Web transparency - rounds up some good cross-browser PNG transparency techniques

60 More AJAX and JavaScript Solutions for Professional Coding - I’m becoming a jQuery or custom-only guy, but there are some neat tricks here.

eXtreme Type Terminology - Typography lingo 101

FR EE Typefaces from Ten by Twenty - Jura, Nevis, and Munro, three of the hottest free fonts I’ve seen.

63 Must-have Grunge fonts - because you know, you need 63…

Take Control of Your Maps - Don’t default to Google Maps API on your next Web app :)

20 Rare Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber

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Posted April 17th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

Giving Birth to a Tech Network

Well, it’s not news anymore, but we re-launched Engadget (and all the sub-Engadgets) and packaged a few other of our sites into a juggernaut Tech-blog network. I am physically and emotionally exhausted from it all. I could write a book on the process, I may attempt snippets of it on this blog. Sorry I didn’t post about it right away, but I needed a few days away from the computer to recoup. Besides, there was enough being written about it anyway. Here’s some of the coverage:

Great work Mark and Erik, and thanks, Snook for the killer jQuery implementation

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Posted April 14th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

Free Icons: PI Diagona

Good looking set of 200 free icons. Gives fam fam fam a bit of a run for it’s money!

Pinvoke: Icons and Pixel fonts

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Posted March 9th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

SXSW 2008 Panel - Everything I Know About Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars

Everything I need to know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars by Derek Featherstone.

Small band of rebels versus the unfeeling evil empire :)

A good motivational, conceptual overview of Accessibility. Not much by way of example or technique, but still good. Check out my notes below.

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Posted March 9th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

SXSW 2008 Panel - A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe?

A/B Testing: Design Friend or Foe?

Corey Chandler Lead Interaction Designer, eBay Inc
Jake Cressman Producer, Electronic Arts
Chris Maliwat Sr Dir of Prod Mgmt, Vuze Inc
Micah Alpern Design Dir Social Search, Yahoo! Inc
Elliot Shmukler Principal Prod Mgr, LinkedIn

Very valuable panel on testing design changes to determine their business outcome before unleashing it on the public at large. Check out my notes below.

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Posted March 9th, 2008 in Web Design by Matt

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