August, 2007

An introduction to Microformats

Rather than take the common approach and show slide after slide of source code (boring), I spent more time up front identifying the problem that Microformats solve. Microformats generally speaking are really simple, so I thought it was more important to understand the problem.

Details aren’t details, they are the design

If you are a designer, you’ve heard that a million times before. It’s so very true.
Here is an example I snapped today while redeeming a gift certificate:

The system is telling the user to click here for their receipt (click here and do what?), but then says, “oh, you might want to wait a second, […]

On Domain Name Scammers.

I’m trying to sell “mylifeinpixels.com” to raise some extra cash. I’ve owned it for about five years, but haven’t actively used it for the last two.
My friend Steve commented on how cool the domain was. That sparked my curiosity so I ran it through a few free an paid appraisal services. The results were […]