Category Archives: Design

Back to the top: navigation and design failure.

One of my pet peeves when it comes to web design is one that I consistently see with businesses who traditionally relied on the sunday advertisement insert is a reluctance (or perhaps overt refu......

Random thought…

How drastically would the world change were comic sans to disappear from the face of the earth tomorrow?

Bringing science to the world, and the world to science

A note to those developing websites based on databases of scientific information aimed at engaging the public: enough with the acronyms. Unless the acronym spells out something easily recalled......

Fireworks won’t start anymore? It probably doesn’t like your fonts.

The other day I was going to create a new mockup, but when I launched Adobe Fireworks, it kept crashing after 30 seconds of the ‘loading’ pane.  Would a reboot fix it?  No such luck.......

Me Do My Myself: renegade baking, creativity, and Fashioning Technology

I had my first renegade baking experience was when I was 4.  My mom was outside working in the garden, and my friend and I decided that we wanted to ‘bake’ for the first time.  Unfor......

Powered by Microsoft? Ford must really be in trouble.

Yup, there are all of the old jokes: If Microsoft built your car, your car would crash randomly three times a day while you were driving down the road… and every time you made a left turn. or If......