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And again... Erik Spiekermann, because he's worth listening to:

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A great interview with "godfather of modern type" - Erik Spiekermann:

Typographic Design in the Digital Domain with Erik Spiekermann & Elliot Jay Stocks a conversation with Erik Spiekermann and Elliot Jay Stocks Metro, the design paradigm behind Windows Phone is in part, a celebration of typography. In this s...

A counterpoint to responsive web design

Not a mobile web, merely a 320px-wide one « James Pearce A school of influential web designers are pioneering ‘Responsive Web Design’ as a way to render content on different types of browser screens. They must fix the fledgling technique’s technical faults before it propagates into the wild. And it is certainly not yet worthy of its name: designers must t...

Product page design: combining the best of eCommerce interaction design with the styling and engagement of a fashion magazine

An alternative approach to product page design .net magazine recently asked me to design the perfect eCommerce product page as a part of their ‘build-off’ feature. This is an excerpt from that feature.

50GB free storage for iOS devices users:

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Practical guidelines for web form usability:

An Extensive Guide To Web Form Usability - Smashing UX Design In this article, we’ll provide practical guidelines that you can easily follow. These guidelines have been crafted from usability testing, field testing, website tracking, eye tracking, Web analytics and actual complaints made to customer support personnel by disgruntled users.

Google+ launches pages for business and brands

Google+ Launches Branded Pages Google has finally unveiled brand page for Google+, allowing businesses and brands to join Google's social network. "So far Google+ has focused on connecting people with other people," Goo

Internet weighs about 50 grams (calculation based on the weight of all electrons in motion that make up the internet)

How Much Does The Internet Weigh? Thanks to and for these facts! all music by Jake Chudnow: http://soundcloud.com/jakechudnow READ MORE: Weight gained from e-books: ...

Sprites: combining images into a single image can dramatically reduce the number of HTTP requests that your webpages make, which improves front-end performance. Here's an useful tool:

Sprite Cow - Generate CSS for sprite sheets Sprite Cow helps you get the background-position, width and height of sprites within a spritesheet as a nice bit of copyable css.

How to enable Timeline on Facebook before the official launch:

TechCrunch | How To Enable Facebook Timeline Right This Second This morning Facebook announced Timeline, a crazy (and kind of creepy) omnibus look at everything that has ever happened in your Facebook lifespan. It's like a story book of your life — or at least the online, documented parts. Facebook said that Timeline would be on the way for everyone sometime...