design blog

  1. web design techniques;
  2. publishing on the web
  3. occasional ranting

On product design and web tech

  • Facebook algorithms and the problem with majority rule

    ...recently, Facebook started automating the filtering of posts which is really annoying because no one really knows exactly how the filters work.

  • My own Yahoo logo animated GIF

    Yahoo has recently started animating the logo on their site. It reminds me of their early days on the web. I was such a fan back then that I made my own animation of their logo. The animated GIF above has a timestamp of 12/26/1996, I was 12 years old at the time.

  • What a bad interface can do

    I lost all my Google Docs files unknowingly with a few simple steps.

  • The new Microsoft CEO: me

    My qualifications as the new Microsoft chief are as good as anyone.

  • Learning by copying

    Taking apart someone else's work as practice.

  • Programming made for humans

    Writing less code and using an interface to program on the web.

  • What makes a good ebook

    Besides a great story of course, what’s involved in producing a good ebook?

  • Marketing a web app

    The only way to really know if someone is using your product, this making it successful, is if they are happily paying for it!

  • Why ebooks took so long

    ebooks are becoming more common today, quickly turning into a new standard for reading books. It's pretty interesting how long the idea of an ebook has actually been around, since even before the mainstream Internet. So why has it taken so long for people to really start reading digitally?

  • No more hardware tinkering

    Growing up with computers, any fellow computer nerd that I knew would be proud to upgrade their PC's hardware on their own, getting the latest graphics card for new generation PC video games.

  • The Content Management System that wasn't

    ...what started out to be a simple tool quickly turned into something rather complex and may have been too ambitious in the end.

  • My switch from Android to iPhone

    A few months I made a list of what I wanted in a new phone as my two-year contract with my Droid was almost up.

  • Developing a web app

    My side project, Indie Aisle has been online for a few months now and as I did with designing the web app, I'd like to share my thoughts about the development process.

  • The Chrome notebook and really working on the web

    It's been over a month since I got the Chrome notebook and I wanted to share my thoughts on it so far.

  • Wrong default web cursor

    This past year, I've tried an experiment on the site. I've replaced the 'text select' cursor that shows when mousing over text on a website with the default arrow cursor.

  • Designing an online app

    Indie Aisle is a project I've been working on and off for a couple of years now. This past year however, I really got going with it, spending most of my available time outside of client work.

  • Introducing Indie Aisle

    The Internet has given everyone the ability to post their stories, the next step is to allow them to find their audience. That’s what Indie Aisle has set out to do.

  • Tech trends shaping habits and social interaction

    Two kinds of technologies have in recent months changed my daily habits and how I interact with people: web-based apps and smartphones.

  • On Web Standards and rounded corners

    While general web practices make sense, the need for having formal standards seems unnecessary. Website-building technologies have in a lot of ways standardized themselves because of individual developers deciding what is appropriate to use.

  • Farewell Windows Mobile, hello Android

    It's no surprise, that like a lot of people, I've been becoming more and more of a Google fan this past year...

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