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A Culture of Simplicity

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…


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Test for popups (if you really must use them)

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,…


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IE6 standalone version

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…


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