Here’s an interesting idea. Text Prefs is an online typographic survey where you can choose your preferred text formatting — font, text size, line height, column width — and then vote for it.
According to the creators, Message, the site was developed because…

I just came across three versions of the RSS icon on the Stargate Worlds web site. I’ve not seen green or blue icons being used to represent video and audio RSS feeds before. I was wondering if this was a convention I wasn’t aware of or if this was just how they were trying to [...]

I’ve often wondered why there are no good tools for easily developing information architectures and producing wireframes.
Visio tends to be the standard, although I regularly use PowerPoint due to its ubiquity. Thanks to the PowerPoint Prototyping Toolkit you can produce quite good results.
The problem with Visio (other than its cost) is that it tends to [...]

In writing about redesigning the TechCrunch footer I came across many great examples of creative and useful footer design.
So I thought it was about time I created my own showcase of web site footer designs.

I’ve been a reader of TechCrunch for some time. Although I mainly read it via RSS, I occasionally visit the site — either to post a comment or view something that’s not displaying properly in my RSS reader.
I’m always interested to check out the design of popular, content rich sites like this, to see what [...]

In his article Press releases: spin and propaganda, Gerry McGovern recently railed against the practice of posting press releases on web sites, asking the question:
…why do so many organizations still publish press releases prominently on their websites?
I agree in principle that putting press releases on a web site does not serve the purpose for which [...]

Jacob Nielsen recently posted an Alertbox simply titled Four Bad Designs.
While I don’t disagree with his observations and his conclusions, I also felt that perhaps it was a little unfair to single out these sites in particular for his scathing remarks:
Following is a modest harvest of design stupidities I’ve recently encountered.
Ouch!

Want to come and work for a leading computer game developer and publisher? I’m looking for an interaction designer web producer and a web production specialist to join the web team at NCsoft here in Austin.
Now that I’ve been in my new position all of three weeks I can say with confidence that this is [...]