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The October 2009 Usability News Newsletter has a great article highlighting a recent typography study on Web font faces. Know Your Typefaces! Semantic Differential Presentation of 40 Onscreen Typefaces > This article presents results from a study investigating the personality of typefaces. Participants were asked to rate 40 typefaces (from serif, sans serif, display, and […]
Phil Coffman, a great designer and Photoshop master, kindly reviewed our book over at his blog a few days ago. Thanks for the honesty, objectivity, and kind words.
Found this gem. A news report from 1981 describing an early “Internet”. Funny to think that this is now mainstream in a way they didn’t even imagine yet. (Via Noel.)
Michael Boyink has a great post with tips for working from home. Worth a read if you are fortunate enough to be able to do so. He has a nice summary paragraph at the end: > If you’re lucky enough to be able to work at home, don’t make it just a little mini office […]
Leona Tomlinson rounds up a great list of considerations when building a Web site to help ensure that it is actually accessible, rather than systematically meeting a list of guidelines. > …we must look further than the guidelines if we are to create websites which are accessible to users with disabilities and the assistive technologies […]
Download Sample Excerpts of “Upgrade Your Life” I got to meet Gina Trapani at SXSW, very cool. Oddly, motivating to get GTD working for me. I’m going to pick up her book, here are some links to some free excerpts. speaking of… The Best of Lifehacker in Upgrade Your Life From the post: > I’ve […]
Why I’m thankful this year. On my personal blog: Thanksgiving – Matt and Nancy Heerema
Smashing Magazine posted a nice roundup of Online Calendars and Date Pickers.
Okay this is just flipping cool. A List Apart: Findings From the Web Design Survey > In April 2007, A List Apart and An Event Apart conducted the first survey of people who make websites. Close to 33,000 web professionals answered the survey’s 37 questions, providing the first data ever collected on the business of […]
Eric Meyer has created some Diagnostic Styling that allows you to see your bad code. Fleshing this idea out a little bit could be a useful tool for every Web Standardista’s arsenal (to mix metaphors).
Snook FTW with a brilliant, simple little tip: Creating a Page Break in your print style sheet before comments.
Business Week helps out the Web standards movement with a great article. Jeffrey Zeldman: King of Web Standards