ABOUT
Bokardo is the blog of Joshua Porter, a web designer/developer, researcher, and writer. I live in Newburyport, MA, USA.
Designing for the Social Web
Building a social web site or application? I wrote a book just for you!
Find out more or order from Peachpit or Amazon
Greatest Hits
- Five Principles to Design By
- The Del.icio.us Lesson
- Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle
- Facebook's Brilliant but Evil Design
- Digg's Design Dilemma (Part II)
- 7 Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
- 7 More Reasons Why Web Apps Fail
- Which Movie to Watch? An Overview of Recommendation Systems
- Ugliness, Social Design, and the MySpace Lesson
Upcoming Speaking Events
- Voices that Matter Conference
Nashville, TN / Jun 10-13, 2008 - North Shore Web Geeks Meetup
Newburyport, MA / June 19, 2008 - d.Construct
Brighton Dome, UK / Sep 4-5, 2008 - Web 2.0 Expo
New York, NY / Sep 16-19, 2008
LATEST POSTS
- Free chapter of Designing for the Social Web available
- My Proposals for 2009 SXSW Talks
- Passionates
- Tripit Employee Pretending to be Disgruntled Dopplr User?
- Can Interfaces be Evil?
- Interface Design Principle: Let people learn more
- North Shore Web Geek Meetup this week, now with talks!
- Social design: from customer service to innovation
- Co-evolving
- Bill Gates upset with Windows Usability
Comments ( 13 Responses so far )
1. Mike Maddaloni on May 24th, 2007 (Comment) #
Brilliant!
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2. Noah Everett on May 24th, 2007 (Comment) #
I love it
3. Ara Pehlivanian on May 24th, 2007 (Comment) #
Cuts right to the point, doesn’t it.
4. Rob Cornelius on May 25th, 2007 (Comment) #
Sums things up perfectly. Welcome to the new bubble.
5. Mike Johnston on May 25th, 2007 (Comment) #
Fantastic. Best part of my day.
6. Daniel on May 26th, 2007 (Comment) #
Straight to the point!
7. Noah Mittman on May 28th, 2007 (Comment) #
I still wonder that when some talks to me about microformats.
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8. Manuel on May 30th, 2007 (Comment) #
Yeah even i wonder. Is it of any use?
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9. Derek Lib on June 3rd, 2007 (Comment) #
Yukihiro Matsumoto didn’t work hard to make Ruby perfect for everyone. No language can be perfect for everyone. Ruby is definitely useful under certain conditions and in certain middleware projects.
10. shrestha on June 13th, 2007 (Comment) #
awesome!to the target.hope to see more display like this,the fastest way to make people understand.