September 2009
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #18 →
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week –…
No Plea Entered In Guard's Death →
The man charged of running down and killing a Sacramento security guard made a court appearance Friday.
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines →
Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making…
Twitter quote of the Day – Paul Short →
via @paulshort on Twitter (Paul writes for The Inquisitr as well as his personal blog)
How Ravelry Scales to 10 Million Requests Using... →
Deep House Archives Vol. 22 - Soulful Science →
Greetings! The new installment in the DHA mix series revisits a part of house music that hasn’t been featured here lately, but still moves us in very special ways. Although we’re already into…
The real-time baby (what this means for media... →
If you were following my Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, or Flickr feeds you know by now that we had a baby on Saturday night.
Tonight, over on my Posterous blog, I asked the industry…
The new billion-dollar opportunity: real-time-web... →
I’ve been playing all day with the new Threadsy, the new Seesmic desktop, the unreleased Brizzly, the new TweetDeck desktop, and the new PeopleBrowsr.
It is very hard to tell these apart. That…
The Difference Between Art and Design →
The subject of what separates art and design is convoluted and has been debated for a long time.
Artists and designers both create visual compositions using a shared knowledge base, but…
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #17 →
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week –…
Things to ask before you redo your website →
I don’t do any consulting, but that doesn’t stop people from asking me questions. The most common question people ask me when they want a new website is, “If you were in charge of this, who are the…
AT&T's 1993 predictions were remarkably... →
Predictions about the future, when viewed from the future, are often hilariously wrong, and nowhere is this more true than with product design. One need look no further than “futuristic” Hollywood…
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How To Use Competitive Analysis To Boost Your... →
This is Day 26 of the 30 Days to 3,000 Fans program. You can learn more about the program here. If you are the average small business owner, there is a good chance that the majority of your…
Too small to fail: Startups can grow in recessions →
A little product called Bingo Card Creator just had its biggest month ever. Patrick McKenzie runs this one-man software company.
In fact, February, March and April were…
The hierarchy of success →
I think it looks like this:
Attitude Approach Goals Strategy Tactics Execution We spend all our time on execution. Use this word instead of that one. This web host. That color. This…
SEO Judo →
SEO Judo is used when you have a site or blog with content that hasn’t been optimized for search. When content isn’t created with keyword research as part of the process Google and other…
Tips from the Trenches: Get Your Clients to Pay Up →
Do you worry about chasing down payments because you don’t want to get into a touchy situation with your clients? Just because the client hasn’t paid in a timely manner doesn’t mean you…
Sweet Tweets: Design Resources of the Week #16 →
Sweet Tweets is a weekend feature to The Design Cubicle highlighting some of my favorite, and other Twitterer’s design-related links discovered via Twitter throughout the work week –…
1997: Chemical Brothers – Block Rockin’ Beats →
An anagram of Chemical Bros is Cosmical Herb.
[For more of the sounds of 97, click here]
30 Typography Posters That You’ve Probably Never... →
Typography is the art of arranging, designing and modifying type.
Creating a well designed typography poster is no easy task, and takes time and patience.
When a poster focuses only on…
Bicycle Shots by Dan Vojtech →
I love this sport photographs. Dan Vojtêch!
Dan Vojtêch’s Portfolio
10 Ways To Gain More Design Work by Building Trust... →
Recently in a live interview with Neenah Paper I was asked, “What advice would you give to those trying to promote their business and gain more work?” My response – “Build trust…
Design for Startups: The Aesthetics of Web Apps in... →
Think twice about that huge font and those glassy icons: Look and feel is the first thing we see and notice about most web apps and is often critical to an app’s user experience, adoption, and…
35 Inspirational Fashion Website Designs →
Appearance is crucial for obvious reasons in the fashion industry. With that in mind, many fashion e-commerce sites can be an excellent source of design inspiration.
Attractive design and…
Make Your Blog Real-Time Now With the rssCloud... →
I just posted about the integration of rssCloud on Wordpress.com blogs, something that Matt Mullenweg confirmed, and can be enabled on any Wordpress.com-hosted blogs right now. About…
The Importance of a Compelling Bio →
We don’t often give much thought to our bios, even though they’re actually important and a big part of everything we do online. They’re on the “About” pages on our web sites, in our profiles…
Give Your Projects a Final Polish With a Standard... →
Soon after I clicked the “Publish” button on my blog dashboard, I realized I had made a mistake.
I’d read my post through three times before hitting that button, but somehow missed adding a…
Must See SEO Guide for All WordPress Bloggers →
Horizontal Navigation Menus: Trends, Patterns, and... →
The horizontal navigation menu has become a mainstay in Web design. It is safe to say that nowadays most websites use some form of horizontal navigation to facilitate…
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25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design... →
In the large scope of the design world, the term “Web 2.0″ is relatively a new one.
With it, comes its own set of standards, some strong, others not so strong, since Web 2.0 in itself is a…
Cover Designs by Manuel Renneiss →
Great LP- and CD-Covers by Manuel Renneiss, a Designer from Austria.
20 Vital Techniques and Best Practices For... →
Creating beautiful, unique websites seems to get harder every day. There are so many amazing website designs out there that coming up with something fresh and different is getting close to…
“Ten Ways Spec Will Hurt You In The Real World”
– I’m Sorry « CRACKED EGO
