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“It’s a craft that takes its wisdom from science, its inspiration from art and the design disciplines, its possibilities and limitations from software technology and corporate culture, and its directions – ideally – from the users.”
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here’s one for starters: “Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purposeâ€
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SEO people love inline linking, but do users? An interesting read :)
Author: Leisa Reichelt
another new toy! Skype!
OK. I’m a latecomer to Skype, but this going overseas malarchy has finally got me motivated.
How cool is Skype! (and how much work have they done to make it incredibly easy to use! Well done Skype!)
Unfortunately I only have the Test Message lady to talk to at the moment… that’s ok though, because I’m still a little shy about the whole talking thing… Finally I might get to give the old web cam that’s built into my laptop a bit of a workout… (or maybe not. A bit shy about that too!)
Are you on Skype yet? Maybe you could give me your Skype contact details so I can have some people in my address book! :)
links for 25 May 2006
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Given my recent switch to Open Office, this blog is exactly what I need these days :) (via Kathy Sierra)
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all the 2.0 apps you could ever want and then some… (although, obviously there are more that we don’t *know* that we need yet…)
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in case the first list wasn’t enough… here’s another
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If you are just beginning to get into design you really shouldn’t look at learning CSS as an option or something to do down the road. Start learning it immediately.
links for 24 May 2006
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a (currently free) service that backs up any MySQL blog remotely. Nice idea, but am I the only person feeling a little reticent about giving someone else all my content in a nice little bundle like that. (yes, yes… I know, they could just as easily get it all via RSS… so I’m being paranoid. right?
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ChipIn is a service that allows lots of people to put money together for a common cause – fundraising, a group present etc. I could see this working quite well for the kids at ActNow