Tooltips and Infotips

‘Never use tips as a substitute for good design. If a graphic, button, or other object requires users to keep checking a tip to understand it, the design is bad. Fix the design instead.’

Guesses vs. Data as Basis for Design Recommendations (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)

First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users (Alertbox)

“To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior. “

Fir Cone

Candle of Glory

Candle Flames 1

Ostrich Plumes 2

Mist Drops

Candle Flames 2

Pine 1

Old Fern

The rantings of a MAD HATTER wannabe The birth of a gentlemans hat

She has a tag for “Flat pattern out of 3d shape.” This might change my life.

Figuration Fminine

How Dirty MP3 Files Are A Back Door Into Cloud DRM jonesthought

nice.

Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: MicroISV on a Shoestring

neonstalwart: fetching everything selected in dojox.grid.DataGrid

Clean Up the New Ubuntu Grub2 Boot Menu – How-To Geek

Eighties Avant-garde Atrocity Sewing Projects | BurdaStyle.com

‘This is a jumper/shirt combo I made from Vogue 9128, a vintage pattern from the early Eighties recently voted The Ugliest Pattern Ever on my blog, Male Pattern Boldness. ‘

How HTML 5 link prefetching can make your site load faster with one line of code. keyboardy

Shapes And Sizes “Tell Your Mum” (Stereogum Premiere) – Stereogum