nonprofit interaction design by chris blow
The Joy of e-waste
Recently I’ve been really worked up about all these computers in the closet. It’s a bunch of junk.
A bunch of dot-com-bubble bullshit that never needed to be purchased in the first place. I’ve been stressed out about that festering backwater of old computers since I got my job here 16 months ago.
For 16 [...]
Don’t Make Me Think
There are very few web design books that have any currency after about 2 years. Very few.
And half of these are notable because their very outdatedness is instructive. The rare remaining 50%
of this minority of web design books is the “on-every-designer’s-shelf” collection. Among them is certainly Steve Krugman’s “Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense [...]
Some Web Design Books Are Dangerous
I recently picked up a copy of the “for Dummies” CSS tutorial book and was disappointed to find the following in a section about using named vs. hex color values (like cornflowerblue instead of #6495ED):
“… my advice is to just assume that pretty much everyone who’ll see your web page uses IE [Internet Explorer]. Why? [...]