"An entire generation seems to have become used to experiences clogged with menus and text, spammed with awkward cutscenes, choked by voice acting, mangled by incongruent narrative, segmented by load times, stalled by informational messages. These elements serve to undermine the aesthetic coherence of the work -- they can dilute the magic, they can interrupt the flow, they can disrupt the basic audiovisual communication, they can break the spell."

"Before there were blogs we had websites. Beautiful, random websites that felt more like a zine — one page looking nothing like the one before or after it."

"The Movement Method Cards are a collection of strategies gathered to inspire, guide, and elevate the creative process. Use the cards to spark ideas, facilitate conversations, categorize strategies, or for designing your own design processes."

More money isn't one of them.

"We're a 20% company. For one day of our working weeks (sometimes more) we work on projects which have mostly non-commercial aims, like digital work for charities, or things which are just good fun."

"A collection of 51 cards representing diverse ways that design teams can understand the people they are designing for. They are used to make a number of different methods accessible to all members of a design team, to explain how and when the methods are best used, and to demonstrate how they have been applied to real design projects."

"We used this as an opportunity to really push what Dan has been calling "progressive enrichment": sprinkling in some modern CSS declarations even if not every browser gets all of them [...] So if you view the UX London site in IE6 it looks fine. Nothing special though. But if you view the site in a browser like Safari, a lot of little details shine through. The design is pretty much a test-case for the box-shadow property using RGBa."

More on Furoshiki from Recycle now.

"A website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail."

Impressed by Ghostly International; how a record label site should work.

"form follows data - data visualization & visual communication"

Great!. "I’m talking about building beautiful things out of (sometimes) boring data sources. I’ll be talking less about design and visualisation, and more about projects and ‘things’."

"A Microformats and CSS demonstration site by Andy Clarke, part of the For A Beautiful Web series of web design and development workshops launching in 2008."

"Interesting2007 was a conference that happened on the 15th June at the Conway Hall, London. This site isn't so much an archive of the event as a collation of the traces and remains it's left scattered over the internet."

"Just forward your travel confirmation emails to: plans@tripit.com." Clever clever.

"Idea generation is an addiction... an engaging, brain-spinning indulgence that must be practiced in moderation."

"I find that certain mental states are good for certain tasks. No caffeine is good for doing my taxes, running and washing up. Walking with no music and being in the shower is good for insights into problems."

"As Borges wrote reviews of non-existent books, I have notes for essays I'll never write. Here I've collected what's been on my mind the last couple of months."

"An outpost for curious divergent thinkers who appreciate new ideas from a wide mix of sources. Completely random and updated regularly, inspiration drawn from - and relevant to - the larger creative world."

"I think the reason he included this in his book, and the reason I think it is a seriously good idea to actually execute, is that as a green propaganda project is it will force people to confront the very real possibility of catastrophe before it happens.

Ze Frank discusses some techniques he learned himself to harness his creativity.

"We provide everything you’ll need to plan and create a beautiful wild flower garden or meadow."

"Accessible, usable websites built with universality and standards in mind need not be boring"