Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
July 26, 2012
content strategy / journalism / programming / story
Homicide Watch is one of those projects that stays in your head. If you tell or edit or assemble stories for a living, it’s also likely to change the way you see the narratives you’re making.
July 20, 2012
design / free fonts / typography
Every now and then, we look around, select fresh free high-quality fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice out there is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually time you should be investing in your projects. We search for them and find them so that you don’t have to.
July 13, 2012
design / ecommerce / jared spool / usability / usability-testing / user experience
An alternative to conversion rates, called the “Compelled Shopping Analysis.” This is, I think, the best way I’ve seen to improve ecommerce user experience.
July 13, 2012
design / jared spool / research / scenarios / user experience
Increasingly, designers are trying to design things that haven’t been designed before, and it’s not the same as it is when we’re improving on previous work. But there are some fantastic principles for doing this kind of work, and doing it well.
July 11, 2012
an event apart / design / responsive design
Luke Wroblewski’s notes on Andy Clarke’s talk at An Event Apart in Austin 2012, where he talked about the changes in processes and tools for modern web design.
July 11, 2012
an event apart / design / luke-wroblewski / mobile
Jeffrey Zeldman’s notes on Luke Wroblewski’s talk at An Event Apart Austin 2012. Fantastic-looking talk on how to take design into the future with mobile.
July 11, 2012
The URLs to articles, apps, and examples used in Andy Clarke’s An Event Apart Austin talk.
July 11, 2012
Erin Kissane writes on how to get rid of trolls. The wisdom here, both for online and offline communities, is fantastic and needs to be heard.
July 11, 2012
This class allows you to test event tracking in a development environment without throwing JavaScript errors because google analytics isn’t loaded. When Google Analytics is loaded, it’ll trigger the corresponding pageTracker functions as you’d expect in a production environment.
July 11, 2012
api / ecommerce / programming
Interesting-looking, new startup for taking payments on websites.