Life Below 600px
By Paddy Donnelly. (Via Lea Verou.) Outstanding and viscerally visual example.
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This is a tumblelog, kinda like a blog but with short-form, mixed-media posts with stuff I like. Scroll down a bit to start reading, or a bit more to read more about me.
The UX of Language
A decent write-up by Alex Sexton on — when all is said and done — why putting in the extra effort to do proper i18n (and/or L10n) makes a big difference to your customers. (And/but: I’ll split some short and fine hairs on the use of “UX” here — feeling that it’s a bit of a “link-bait-y” usage — but just the same: good piece.)
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…who the heck is visiting page 964 of 3810?
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Jeff Atwood, “The End of Pagination”
As you can imagine, the comment thread is exactly the kind of potpourri you’d expect from this topic.
Redesigning the browser window
At Antrops blogg (Swedish site, but the blog post is in English): An interesting thought experiment with some intriguing ideas and conclusions. Worth a read, even if you don’t agree with all of his points and conclusions. Certainly the inspiration behind the post ought to be enough to get your own thoughts going.
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We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce than designs that assemble long lists of features.
— Douglas Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts)
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