Category Archives: Bookmarks

We all know them. If you’ve ever registered a domain name before, purchased a car, or hell, watched TV for 10 minutes, then you’ve experienced a dark pattern. Normally when you think of “bad design”, you think of laziness or … Continue reading →

Branko Ajzele posted a really interesting post today on the Inchoo blog about extending the Magento core API. Surprisingly, it’s not as easy as one would think… Its all about simple things, right? Well, here is one bottom line simple … Continue reading →

This took my breath away. I’ll let the video speak for itself. If you like what you saw, check out the official website, read up on the background of 10/GUI or simply reach out to the guy who came up … Continue reading →

A really surprising tweet from @fortyagency caught my eye recently. Congratulations to Razorfish for being a cutting-edge agency and adopting the Agile methodology! …like we did… a long time ago… ;-) Woah. Agency? Agile? Is it possible? I’m trying to … Continue reading →

Woah, I’m not sure how I missed this but it looks like 10gen released MongoDB 1.6 yesterday. Congratulations guys! NEW YORK, NY–(Marketwire – August 5, 2010) –  10gen, the company that started the MongoDB project, today announced version 1.6.0 of … Continue reading →

Placeholder images shouldn’t be something you think about — they are placeholders after all. Brent and Russell came up with a wonderfully simple API for automatically embedding placeholder images into your web applications. How does it work? Just put your … Continue reading →

Microsoft and EAE have teamed up to pose one hell of a challenge to the web community: build the best web app you can in 10K or less. It’s time to get back to basics — back to optimizing every … Continue reading →

Smashing Magazine published a really good article on jQuery today targeting some of the most commonly confused elements of the API. The topics covered are pretty advanced but the author nailed the big points head on. They are: .parent() vs. … Continue reading →

You could consider this a bit of a follow up to the explain your pricing point I made yesterday on Mockingbird’s launch… We all know how important the layout of your sites homepage is, or the product details page but … Continue reading →

A fellow New Yorker had her dream realized today and had her first article posted on ALA. It’s honestly one of the best articles I’ve seen on the site in a long time As a user experience designer, I have … Continue reading →