Creative Behavior - Online Design Magazine, Design Articles, Designer Interview, Design Events and Competitions, Typography Articles
A ezine for ‘creative people’ but there some interesting articles for those of us less blessed in pixel pushing, including ‘when to fire your client’, and a ‘web designers survival guide’. Worth a browse.
(tags: design reference webdesign magazine creativity)

WTF 2.0 [...]

Jakob says:
On the Web, users have a clear mental model for a hypertext link: it should bring up a new page. Within-page links violate this model and thus cause confusion.
What is wrong with this assertion?
Anchor links have conventions and mental models that are independent of other types of hyperlinks.
There’s nothing new about anchor links. [...]

Etsy - Your place to buy and sell all things handmade
handmade stuff sold online, and gorgeous, interesting interface design for online shopping make this site my new favourite I just wish more sellers were happy to ship stuff internationally!
(tags: shop inspiration interfacedesign ecommerce)

Spell with flickr
Spell with Flickr is a small program that lets you [...]

I’ve been reading a bit lately about the challenges that Rich Internet Applications (RIA’s) present to people interested in designing elegant, efficient, usable interfaces. Most recently it was Usability for Rich Internet Applications by Donna Maurer over at Digital Web Magazine.
One of the aspects of RIA interface design that is causing some consternation (or at [...]

Friday linkey goodness

Google Page Creator
Google Page Creator is a free online tool that makes it easy for anyone to create and publish useful, attractive web pages in just minutes. Due to overwhelming demand the Beta is by invite only so you’ll need to give them your email address and wait till they call [...]

My bus reading in the last week or so has been The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton.
Alain is a philosopher who has written a number of interestingly titled books including The Architecture of Happiness, Status Anxiety, How Proust can change your Life, Essays in Love and a few more.
When I bought this book [...]

Just the one today. Must have been busy!

Pandora Squared - Business and Web 2.0 Consulting, Social Media Marketing, Software and Blogging
you know, its pretty hard to find developers in Sydney who claim to have expertise in all, or any of the 2.0 flavourd technologies. These are the first ones I’ve found. Are there more out [...]

after the great review that BlogBeat received on TechCrunch and given my current addiction to stats (yes, I’m sure it will wear off sooner or later… although Stowe Boyd’s ongoing obsession with his Technorati ranking gives me some concern that things may go from bad to certifiable)… I decided to sign up for a free [...]

so, its been almost a month since I started blogging. How time flies when you’re addicted to Google Analytics.
Two things have happened recently that make me really feel like a *proper* blogger.

I was out for a beer or two with the lovely Melissa and on several occasions sentences started with ‘aahhh, yes! I was just [...]

Just a couple today as I’ve been diverted with a Microsoft Project battle. Not particularly inspiring (although I’ve noticed some new features of the 2003 Edition that I like). These links - much more inspiring.

CSS Reboot Spring 2006
The CSS Reboot is a community event for web professionals. May 1st, 2006 at 6:00 GMT Rebooters from [...]