Articles in the “design” category

Custom Buttons

Posted last year, mid-February

Doug Bowman’s tale of the new buttons at Google: Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, we’ve been playing and experimenting with controls we call “custom buttons” in our apps (among other custom controls). (via)

A better lipsum generator

Posted last year, at the start of February

The Blind Text Generator: Handy options in this dummy text generator, including number of words or characters, specifying pixel width, number of paragraphs (with tags), etc. (via SimpleBits)

Photoshop and color profiles

Posted 2 years ago, at the end of October

Learn how to tame Photoshop (or Firefox 3) so it doesn’t lie to you.

Update to a great user experience

Posted 2 years ago, mid-October

The New York Times updates a small and relatively unknown feature on their website, and I love it.

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web

Posted 2 years ago, mid-August

For too long typographic style and its accompanying attention to detail have been overlooked by website designers.

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