Resurgence magazine has in their online archive a delightful article summarizing wabi-sabi by Leonard Koren: A Culture of Simplicity. His book-length treatment of the subject is called Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers. Wabi-sabi is a Japanese aesthetic and philosophy of simplicity, humility and…
Here’s an easy bit of javascript that helped me solve a big usability problem. The issue: we designed an application that requires users to fill out a form, then displays their errors in a popup window. It’s a lengthy form that can present many errors,…
If you’ve already installed IE7, it ate IE6. That means you can’t use IE7 to test how websites perform in IE6 and what strange IE6 quirks might be lurking in the shadows. This standalone version of IE6 works pretty well for basic testing of CSS…
It took me two entire days to figure out that it’s not my fault! It’s IE-freakin-6. I’m so annoyed. Here’s the issue: I used my favorite technique for creating CSS tooltips on a form. Next to each form field is a [ ? ] which,…
One of the most beautiful interactive charts I have ever seen is Gapminder World 2006, which merges impressive data visualization technology with human development statistics. This chart allows you to compare worldwide statistics such as population, % of women in the workforce, and poverty. The…
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