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Web Designer at Readability/Arc90. Skateboarder.
I got some great comments on my post about conditionally loading content. Just to recap, I was looking for a way of detecting from JavaScript whether media queries have been executed in CSS without…
Hillman Curtis, a former rock musician who became a prominent first-generation Web designer and a visionary figure in the Internet’s evolution from a predominantly text-based medium to the multimedia…
It’s late July, and as usual, Guns n' Roses are screwing everything up. They're out on the road with devil-may-care attitudes and no set list, serving up a bunch of unfamiliar songs and saying…
The web and its related disciplines have grown organically. I think it’s safe to say the web is not the domain of just the geeks anymore—we all live here. And those of us who work here…
My favorite piece of writing in the last year was “Sad as Hell”, published by n+1. Officially it’s a book review for Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story. Unofficially…
On November 5, 2003, three decades after Roe v. Wade established a woman's constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy, President George W. Bush signed the Partial Birth Abortion Ban bill into…
When we self-diagnose, we look for control factors. Sometimes we invent them. The goal of solipsistic anxiety is to find an individual agent that explains our misery. We eliminate possibilities…
So, here's a Vision Of The Future that's popular right now. It's a lot of this sort of thing. As it happens, designing Future Interfaces For The Future used to be my line of work. I had the…
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind…
Your terrifying word of the day is "microtasking" and it comes by way of a relatively humble, ostensibly helpful article I read via one of those perky little DIY blogs that exist to tell you a…
We read in horror today the story of Mark Bradford, a 46-year-old, jobless father of three from Plymouth, Devon (UK). After being killed and then taunted by a 13-year-old opponent in Call of Duty:…
We're twenty years in to this world wide web thing. Today, I myself celebrate twelve years of writing this blog. And yet those of us who love this medium, who've had our lives changed by the…
O P E N L E T T E R S T O P E O P L E O R E N T I T I E S W H O A R E U N L I K E L Y T O R E S P O N D . Dear gentleman blow-drying his balls in the gym locker room, You're actually doing it. I…
The other day someone sent me an IM and thanked me for my open source contributions. They then said something about wishing they had my gem/code creation talents . I didn t miss a beat and informed…
February 2003 When we were in junior high school, my friend Rich and I made a map of the school lunch tables according to popularity. This was easy to do, because kids only ate lunch with others of…
Sit down. At a bar. A bar made of wood, you ingrate. Now stand up. Lean against the bar. Go ahead. Lean. Feel your elbows in the groove. You you have an elbow groove at the bar, right? Now rest your…
By Ben McAllister - May 11, 2011 Design, like the world as a whole, is unpredictable and messy. If you think it boils down to "research," you're mistaken. A job interview can be a pretty dry affair,…
Here it is. I'm dead, and this is my last post to my blog. In advance, I asked that once my body finally shut down from the punishments of my cancer, then my family and friends publish this prepared…
Always eager to jump into a debate, today I tackle the concept that artsy eye candy is currently too prevalent in design. Design inspiration galleries and communities are constantly critiqued for…
Does that headline look like a bunch of cussing to you? I was hoping it would be offensive. I m also looking forward to see how it s covered by the tech aggregators like Digg and Reddit. And I want…
Dear Summer Interns: Your stock is up — like way up. Ten years ago when I was hiring interns at the mothership, my incredibly flawed and shortsighted policy was to hire as many as they’d let me, dole…
Illustration by Roderick Mills I lived in fifteen different places in the 28 years I spent in New York City: brownstones, prewar apartment buildings, and more than a few tenements;…
The fifth version of Rands in Repose has been a long time coming, but it’s close. The design is done and the migration of content is mostly complete. The process of learning an entirely new…
The Misconception: You make rational decisions based on the future value of objects, investments and experiences. The Truth : Your decisions are tainted by the emotional investments you accumulate,…
I just got back from the SXSW interactive conference in Austin. I went there to give a talk about fueling sustainable productivity by balancing periods of fully absorbed attention with intermittent…
A few years ago I was interviewing a designer for a job. We ended up passing on him. Not because the work was bad, it wasn’t. And not because he interviewed badly, he didn’t. We passed…
One of the Onion's latest articles:
Big Sausage Pizza is a porn franchise featuring male delivery men who ostensibly deliver pizzas with centers cut out, through which their cocks manifest for unsuspecting patrons, who while at first…
Date a girl who doesn t read. Find her in the weary squalor of a Midwestern bar. Find her in the smoke, drunken sweat, and varicolored light of an upscale nightclub. Wherever you find her, find her…
Journal Readability, Arc90’s project to make content – in the fullest sense – more accessible is one of my favourite things to appear on the web in recent years. A simple…
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