An interesting thing happened on Cameron Moll’s Authentic Boredom site the other day: readers clamored for more. After writing an good Photoshop how-to article on a technique that he used in one of his projects, Cameron received a level of feedback that you don’t see much of on design blogs. His readers wanted more than just a “how-to”, they wanted to know “why”.

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Continue Reading: Interesting Feedback on Boring Site

Yesterday Clay Shirky published an amazing article called Ontologies are Overrated. Though he doesn’t mention Star Wars directly, his article has big implications for X-Wing Fighters and Land Speeders…

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In his recent post Remove Forebrain and Serve Zeldman targets popularity (incorrectly). Instead of focusing on the exceptions like Zeldman does, I think we need to see popularity in terms of how people use it, as a proxy for good judgment.

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Two examples (one since corrected) where setting the initial focus on a web page actually hurts instead of helps.

Continue Reading: Why Setting Initial Focus To Input Boxes Isn’t Always a Good Thing

We don’t need a return to design. We need to explain what it is we’re doing, why we’re doing it, and what we expect to get from it.

Continue Reading: The Difficulty with Articulating Design

You have to see this interface! Fire up a Mozilla-based browser and take a look. It’s a paradigm-changer…

Continue Reading: Holy Amazing Interface, Batman! Paul Rademacher’s Brilliant Lodging Finder

Back in November I was asked to give feedback on the RSS reader Rojo. Well, they recently redesigned, and I thought it would be interesting to go back and see what I had sent.

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That’s funny. I don’t feel emergent. Or slimy. Or moldy. How people on the Web are just like slime molds…

Continue Reading: Thoughts on Emergence

Simply put, there are technological innovations all the time, but they are not valuable in and of themselves. Only when we put an interface to them can we tell how valuable they are.

Continue Reading: The Interface is Where Innovations Find Value

One of the early folksonomy sites, 43things.com, is being funded – somewhat secretly – by Amazon.com.

Continue Reading: Amazon funding the 43Things Folksonomy?