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What's A Non-Programmer To Do?
Interesting post by Spencer Fry one of the founders of Carbonmade.
articles  business  startup 
october 2009 by nickdominguez
A Shaker Approach to Web Site Design
Simplicity is the embodiment of purity and unity
design  articles  webdesign 
march 2009 by nickdominguez
Depression 2009: What would it look like?
Lines at the ER, a television boom, emptying suburbs. A catastrophic economic downturn would feel nothing like the last one.
depression  economy  articles  news 
november 2008 by nickdominguez
Offshoring Is Dead: How to Thrive in the New World Order
An interesting post from the guys at Assembla, a project management tool for agile distributed teams.
articles  offsoring 
march 2008 by nickdominguez
In Praise of Melancholy
"American culture's overemphasis on happiness misses an essential part of a full life" So true.
articles  psychology  culture 
january 2008 by nickdominguez
Understanding Web Design
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.
articles 
november 2007 by nickdominguez
From the Field: Alex Harris, 100% Online Web Consulting and Design
Nice!
articles 
november 2007 by nickdominguez
Pastor Provocateur
An interesting and long article on Mark Driscoll, someone who I have heard alot about but have not known much about.
faith  articles 
november 2007 by nickdominguez
An Introduction to Using Patterns in Web Design
To make better sites — sites that are functional, beautiful, and "usable" — we have to break our design problems up into small independent chunks based on the real issues within our requirements.
design  development  articles 
september 2007 by nickdominguez
10 Tips on Writing the Living Web
This article is one of the reasons why I'm shifting my personal site from it's current state. Most of what I write is unimportant, dull and downright embarrassing, it's time to try and write something that people will actually find interesting.
articles  writing 
august 2007 by nickdominguez
The Elements of Design Applied to the Web
"In a similar vein as the The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web, the various principles of general design have their place in web based design."
design  articles 
august 2007 by nickdominguez
The Importance of Design in Business
Another great article by the guys at Particletree on alot of points.
articles 
august 2007 by nickdominguez
Designing the "Future Of" Sites
Interesting look into building the identity for the "Future of" conference run by Carson Systems.
articles  design  logo 
august 2007 by nickdominguez
Web Rankings Shakeup
Nielsen//NetRatings' focus on time spent on sites, rather than page views, amounts to a sea change—until the next best metric comes along
analytics  articles 
august 2007 by nickdominguez
Smashing The Clock
No schedules. No mandatory meetings. Inside Best Buy's radical reshaping of the workplace
articles 
july 2007 by nickdominguez
What do you want to know? 37signals
Always love these types of posts.
articles 
july 2007 by nickdominguez
Quiet Structure
A great article by Andy Rutledge comparing USA Today and CNN's site design. "Quiet Structure" what he calls the visual elements that house the content being presented is compared between two sites, shows you why good design does not make great design.
articles  design 
july 2007 by nickdominguez
O'Reilly Radar > Amazon Web Services and the lack of a SLA
This read is scary if your application is using AWS. Granted, the chances of AWS just shutting off or going under is probably pretty minimal, not the greatest feeling that there is even a possibility.
articles  amazon 
june 2007 by nickdominguez
The Digital Talent Drought
"A couple weeks ago I got behind-the-scenes access to one of the marketing communications holding companies' agency partner meetings. It quickly became extremely clear the one thing keeping these agencies up at night: how can we attract digital talent?!"
jobs  articles 
may 2007 by nickdominguez
Web 2.0 'distracts good design'
Hype about Web 2.0 is making web firms neglect the basics of good design, web usability guru Jakob Nielsen has said.
design  articles  usability 
may 2007 by nickdominguez
Helvetica at 50
Helvetica's message is this: you are going to get to your destination on time; your plane will not crash; your money is safe in our vault; we will not break the package; the paperwork has been filled in; everything is going to be OK.
articles  type 
may 2007 by nickdominguez
Web 2.0 and 1980s Branding Aesthetics
don't really agree with this article but it's an interesting read and idea. The examples used from the 80's are all toy or kid related companies or products. I would say the the web 2.0 aesthetic is more about creating a "toylike" feel more than anything.
articles  web2.0 
april 2007 by nickdominguez
35 Designers x 5 Questions
35 designers. 5 questions. 5 precise answers. Result: 175 professional suggestions, tips and ideas from some of the best web-developers all around the world.
articles  design 
april 2007 by nickdominguez
Interview with Darren Walters of Jade Tree Records
A good read.
articles  music 
april 2007 by nickdominguez
STANFORD Magazine: March/April 2007 > Features > Information Expert Edward Tufte
This article should be an interesting read since I'm currently reading one of his books.
articles 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
Information Architects Japan
More great writing in their notebook or "blog". Last few posts have been great.
articles 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
My National Security Letter Gag Order
Although media and news outlets are generally annoying for a number of reasons, this is when you realize how much we really do need them in society.
articles  politics 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
Redesigning the ExpressionEngine Site
I always love how Jesse Bennett-Chamberlain documents and publishes his process. Looking forward to reading this article.
articles  design  process 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
How to Build a Profitable Startup by Knowing Your Users Better
While some of the traffic numbers required for a business to hit $50M in revenue look scary, startups should not lose hope. They should focus on really understanding their users and then utilizing this understanding to improve their RPM rates.
articles 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
The fate of indie music as we know it
Just as Uncle Sam has finally cracked down on payola in corporate radio, the government has dealt a blow to Internet radio, the only promising home to music beyond the top 40.
articles  music 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
Stories of Old Pompano
Some really cool stories about the town that I live in.
articles 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
Beautiful Redesign of Expression Engine sites
Nice links to 31Three redesigns.
articles  design 
march 2007 by nickdominguez
Career Choices for Designers
A nice read for the disillusioned.
articles  designers 
february 2007 by nickdominguez
Has Microsoft Peaked?
The Economist discuss the release of Vista and wonders if Microsoft is on it's way out.
articles  microsoft 
february 2007 by nickdominguez
Carmax.com Redux
"CarMax.com’s website has problems. The site is certainly not worthy of the company’s business stature. Luckily, this provides an opportunity for us to examine some Web design fundamentals".
design  usability  articles 
january 2007 by nickdominguez
Better life through design
One day when things are slow I would like to read this article
articles 
january 2007 by nickdominguez
Compose to a Vertical Rhythm
“Space in typography is like time in music. It is infinitely divisible, but a few proportional intervals can be much more useful than a limitless choice of arbitrary quantities.”
typography  articles 
december 2006 by nickdominguez
How Netflix Designs a Winning Web Site
"With fast iterations, if the feature doesn't work now, then it's not right for the site, no matter how creative it is."
design  articles  netflix 
november 2006 by nickdominguez
ChangeThis
A great collection on "manifestos" in PDF format on a myriad of different topics.
articles 
october 2006 by nickdominguez
Stopdesign | A Design Process Revealed
This article is over 3 years old, but still relevant. Really well written article on the approach to design in any medium.
articles 
october 2006 by nickdominguez
Redefining content management
A good article written by D.Keith Robinson carrying on the conversation about content management systems.
cms  articles 
october 2006 by nickdominguez
Godbit Project | Screencast - Loading Animation
A nice little tutorial by Nathan Smith on building a simple loading animation
articles 
september 2006 by nickdominguez
150 Cheap Places To Live - Forbes.com
It's getting more and more expensive to live wherever you are, this article is an interesting read.
articles  realestate  housing 
july 2006 by nickdominguez
IndieHQ is the ultimate resource for independent bands and indie record labels.
articles  popuprecords 
june 2006 by nickdominguez
The extreme difference in HTML knowledge among people working in the web industr
articles 
may 2006 by nickdominguez
IndieHQ is the ultimate resource for independent bands and indie record labels.
articles  download  music  audio  popuprecords 
may 2006 by nickdominguez
High DPI Web Sites
articles  css  webdesign  design  svg  dpi 
april 2006 by nickdominguez
Using Ruby on Rails for Web Development on Mac OS X
articles  rubyonrails  ruby  rails  tutorial  osx 
february 2006 by nickdominguez
The Real Estate Bloggers
blog  realestate  articles 
february 2006 by nickdominguez
New Scientist SPACE - Features - 13 things that do not make sense
articles  magazine 
december 2005 by nickdominguez
Is God an Accident? - www.ezboard.com
articles  faith 
november 2005 by nickdominguez
wg:Single Image Multi Replacement
css  articles 
november 2005 by nickdominguez
The Blue Lemur
Progressive Politics and Media News » In sworn affidavit, programmer says he developed vote-rigging prototype for Florida congressman; Congressman’s office silent
articles  politics 
december 2004 by nickdominguez
Pitchfork Observed
articles 
december 2004 by nickdominguez
Digital Web Magazine - The End of Usability Culture
articles  usability 
november 2004 by nickdominguez

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