11 February 2007
For the most part, working for a design firm is a joy. New projects are varied, and new problems emerge with each. You meet and worth with myriad people. One client brought each person in our office a dozen eggs from her farm. Another took us for beers when we deployed his site.
The worst part [...]
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11 January 2007
Today PPK rounded up several recent posts debating Javascript Libraries. I defended JS libraries a few weeks ago, but I feel the need to expound. They get a bad rap, and I think its undeserved–especially as the expectations of Web users increase.
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21 December 2006
In Six things that suck about the Web in 2006, Roger
Johansson of 456 Berea Street complains about
Overuse of JavaScript frameworks/libraries. Back to the 90’s, baby, except they were called DHTML libraries that time around. What is it with people learning a JavaScript library instead of learning to write JavaScript? It’s like [...]
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10 November 2006
I believe I’ve said it a couple times: I hate
Flash. Hate the UI. Hate
corruptable binary format. Hate that you can’t make batch changes. I
could go on; I won’t. Very slowly, another vector based format has
been creeping into tools and browsers—Scalable Vector Graphics
(SVG)—and it’s very promising. But there are still some
foibles that are driving me mad, [...]
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21 October 2006
Working in UX and
UI Design can be fun.
It opens you up to just how much bad design is in the
world. Here’s a delightful little example from a website
I was perusing today.
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