This one’s a bit of a usability design in-joke.
I’ve made a WordPress theme based on the site design of web usability expert Dr. Jakob Nielsen. For those who don’t know, Jakob’s success and committed following have shielded him from the last 10 or so years of developments in web design. His site is a time-machine [...]
As you can tell from the entirely un-sexy title, this is one for the analytics nerds.
Google Insights provides the interesting capability of viewing the relative search volume of keywords mapped to a geography. So for instance, Andrew Chen has used the tool to identify websites used by early adopters. This is handy both directly for [...]
If the real measure of Olympic success is the number of medals won per capita, then this is the table we should be following. Australia is conspicuously absent at the moment, but that should be rectified soon if the Athens and Sydney performances are anything to go by.
Some more Olympic medal statistical goodness:
Visualisation of population-adjusted [...]
Two news stories receiving attention here in Australia serve to remind us that the role of contract law in business can often be overstated.
The first occurred when rugby star Sonny Bill Williams decided to breach his 5-year contract with the Canterbury Bulldogs to sign on with French club Toulon. Sure, the Bulldogs were granted an [...]
I’m feeling generous.
The Headless WordPress theme is clean, pixel-perfect, and grid-based. It values content above anything else, so the usual ‘header’ material is placed at the bottom, leaving more content above the fold. It’s also free for you to download and use (in accordance with license details provided in readme.txt).
The default markup is generally retained, [...]
Jonathan Hedley has a great article on why mouse sensors are placed in the middle of the mouse. In brief:
The best user experience was found to result from placing the mouse ball at the front of the mouse between the fore-finger and thumb.
Nonetheless, mouse manufacturers placed mouse balls in the center of the mouse [...]
Google’s Android project is in serious trouble. They’re taking too long to iterate the SDK, and aren’t providing developers with enough information about its progress. At the same time, developers on the rival iPhone platform are enjoy stellar success.
Needless to say, Android developers are not happy, and are readier than ever to jump ship. Google’s [...]
A day after I “finished” the design for this blog, I checked to make sure that everything was working as intended in browsers that I don’t have installed.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, the layout breaks in Internet Explorer versions 6 and below, presumably due to a bizarre bug in IE which causes float margins to be doubled.
For a [...]
On the right - the 3G iPhone. The left? Openmoko FreeRunner.
The iPhone is a delight to use and look at. The FreeRunner is neither, but it’s open source.
Now, choose one.
Struggling to pick? Here are a few more points to consider:
the iPhone costs $200 less to purchase and use (in the US)
the iPhone is 3G enabled, [...]
Just a brief comment on an Economist article abouth the death of yearbooks that found its way onto Hacker News.
It astonishes me how mainstream media inevitably take such a polar view of the analog-to-digital cultural transition. The thesis of the article is predictable - traditional yearbooks are expensive, but ‘permanent’ and nostalgic; whereas digital substitutes [...]