Crude Technologies

Friday, 19th August, 3:36 PM
Key principles of digital #typography: http://j.mp/nEhiny #fonts #css #webdesign

Wednesday, 17th August, 11:33 AM
@ericasadun Your app page clearly shows it has OneStar, but your app didn't automatically call 911 after my car accident. ONE STAR

Tuesday, 16th August, 6:39 PM
What if nobody knows what your icons mean? Guess what -- chances are, they don't: http://j.mp/rj02xj #ux #ui #icons

Tuesday, 16th August, 12:25 PM
@ericasadun have a look at StarFall HD http://j.mp/q5EvFv and the more complex SpaceStation: Frontier HD (40% off) http://j.mp/qhNfnX

Monday, 15th August, 11:23 AM
NYT paywall is porous, but that’s a feature, not a bug. Allows anybody to read any article they like, makes NYT inviting: http://j.mp/qjWDVH

Monday, 15th August, 10:07 AM
To be competitive, Google+Motorola first have to design amazing integrated products, which neither's really done before: http://j.mp/mSFXLa

Sunday, 14th August, 4:59 PM
It's not that PC manufacturers are quitters. It’s that they have the entirely wrong mindset to build must-have products: http://j.mp/pPcj6p

Friday, 15th July, 5:27 PM
Developer attention to #Android has dwindled significantly over first and second quarters of 2011: http://j.mp/nFecuF #stats #ios

Friday, 15th July, 5:24 PM
How web designers can handle the variety of #font weights available in professional quality web fonts: http://j.mp/oDAEJU #css #typography

Friday, 15th July, 5:21 PM
Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and many other online companies are using game developers' techniques to keep you coming back: http://j.mp/qiUV4A

Wednesday, 13th July, 11:36 AM
Functionality, #gamification, and feedback loops -- using evidence, relevance, consequence, and action for #UX #design: http://j.mp/rrYm91

Tuesday, 12th July, 7:03 PM
“This is how ‘Planet of the Apes’ truly began. First you give the apes #copyright, then they take over the world.”: http://j.mp/rnDfdO #law

Tuesday, 12th July, 6:01 PM
20 yrs before #sparklines took off, Edward Tufte developed a different type of data visualization, the #slopegraph: http://j.mp/oeIt00 #ia

Tuesday, 12th July, 6:00 PM
A mid-2011 survey of wireframing and prototyping tools, some offline, some online: http://j.mp/qwxeGo #ia

Monday, 11th July, 3:32 PM
What not to do -- some of the *worst* pieces of #design ever done (plastic clamshell packaging tops the list): http://j.mp/q34mWl #ux

Thursday, 4th November, 1:30 PM
Web designers, keep your page sizes down. It’s for your own (and your users') good: http://j.mp/9QDkjV #ux #performance

Thursday, 4th November, 12:58 PM
Best practices for combining #typefaces in a #design, as well as some blunders to avoid: http://j.mp/bffnUQ #fonts #typography #webdesign

Monday, 1st November, 11:40 AM
Users pay close attention to photos with relevant information, ignore fluffy pictures used for looks: http://j.mp/cjLqtw #ia #ui

Tuesday, 28th September, 4:08 PM
Understand how colors interact with each other to establish a heirarchy of information in your #typography: http://j.mp/dANmUD #ux #design

Monday, 27th September, 2:01 PM
Do you know what your customers actually remember about your site? Try Clue's 5 second test: http://j.mp/9j4MUQ #ux #tdd #webdesign

Sunday, 26th September, 12:08 PM
To make backend infrastructure software usable, focus on the linguistic elements of the design: http://j.mp/dlkj2x

Friday, 13th August, 10:48 AM
Throughout history, the forms of our letters were influenced by the tools we used to create them: http://j.mp/aSMoE7 #typography #usability

Thursday, 12th August, 7:36 PM
Pay attention to net neutrality debate. User experience determines success: http://j.mp/bFtz7g #ux #netneutrality and http://j.mp/dc6Fpj

Wednesday, 11th August, 1:08 PM
Four bits of #design wisdom that may come in handy some day: http://j.mp/biL7za #ux

Wednesday, 11th August, 12:42 PM
Dutch traffic engineer shows streets without signs are safer than roads cluttered with arrows, painted lines, and lights: http://j.mp/djRF6U

Tuesday, 10th August, 11:28 AM
How Star Trek artists imagined usability 23 years ago http://post.ly/r7ts

Tuesday, 10th August, 10:09 AM
Star Trek designer on #usability: Someone beating their brains into guacamole to make this machine easy for *me* to use: http://j.mp/bNUqrJ

Monday, 9th August, 3:20 PM
On corp blog home page, showing summaries of many articles is more likely to draw in users than full articles: http://j.mp/bxUYTy #usability

Thursday, 24th June, 10:39 AM
Ultimate #guide to A/B Testing--what it is, what to test, how to test, classic #test results: http://j.mp/9QGh77 #ux #conversion #marketing

Wednesday, 23rd June, 11:27 AM
The plague of any software product is the moment when non-experts in user interface #design get to look at the #UI: http://j.mp/cRPH4h #ux

Tuesday, 22nd June, 5:31 PM
Intuition is learned. Stop obsessing over whether a #UI is intuitive; start obsessing whether it’s understandable: http://j.mp/aEgT8w #ux

Tuesday, 22nd June, 1:38 PM
Is it really acceptable, much less a good idea, for web sites to require #JavaScript?: http://j.mp/9VgVWz #usability #ux #ui #ajax

Tuesday, 22nd June, 10:31 AM
The beauty of #typography--writing systems and #calligraphy of the world inform #design of international projects (pt.2): http://j.mp/9DNiH2

Monday, 21st June, 3:11 PM
Even a few seconds' delay is enough to create an unpleasant user experience: http://j.mp/9HUo1o #ux #performance #speed

Monday, 21st June, 10:11 AM
Three levels of happiness to #design into remarkable user experiences: Mindfulness, Flow, and Meaning: http://j.mp/bAzbsa #ux #usability

Saturday, 22nd May, 8:56 AM
Most clients are good clients, and some #clients are great clients. But some jobs are just never going to work out well: http://j.mp/a62JlZ

Thursday, 20th May, 9:28 AM
#Google Font Directory--free #fonts to be web embedded and used directly--not ready for Firefox, Chrome on Windows: http://j.mp/bEUgrx

Wednesday, 19th May, 11:20 AM
Fixing bad writing costs American corporations as much as $3.1 billion annually: http://j.mp/bFQLKS #grammar #language #usability

Tuesday, 18th May, 6:49 PM
The beauty of #typography--writing systems and #calligraphy of the world can inform #design of international projects: http://j.mp/agDbZv

Monday, 17th May, 9:12 AM
The model for sustaining customer loyalty is reverse engineering user awesomeness: http://j.mp/c68CjM #ux

Friday, 16th April, 11:12 AM
Our brains are set up to do two things at once, but not three, reports Science journal: http://j.mp/awh9yv #iphone #ipad #multitasking

Friday, 16th April, 11:00 AM
Typography is important--understanding web #typography for beginner typographers and designers to do web #design well: http://j.mp/bxOe0E

Thursday, 15th April, 8:21 PM
If it's impossible to evaluate designs without real copy, why bother reading copy out of context of designs?: http://j.mp/cKpaqq #ia #design

Tuesday, 13th April, 12:21 PM
"The iPad brings hands and eyes back together" -- a reality check on designing for iPad: http://j.mp/bDi7ig #ux #ui #gui #ia #ipad #touch

Monday, 12th April, 9:39 AM
"Losing differentiation is death by low margins." Sane view of "The Adobe - Apple Flame War" by Jean-Louis Gassée: http://j.mp/9oaA6O

Friday, 15th January, 11:03 PM
Use diagramming tools to "hand-sketch" #wireframes for faster expression of ideas, perception of fluidity: http://j.mp/7imLg4 #ia #ui

Thursday, 14th January, 11:41 AM
Shopping for bedsheets–how hard could it be? A survey of challenges in #ecommerce #usability: http://j.mp/4HRnfY #ux

Wednesday, 13th January, 4:12 PM
As the virtual and the ambient are integrated into our lives, we can start to live in more minimalist environments: http://j.mp/8JqlRh #ux

Tuesday, 12th January, 11:38 PM
Don't use words that suck all the meaning out. Language is how we know each other: http://j.mp/83h0ut #marketing #language #usability

Monday, 11th January, 9:25 PM
If your personality could be translated into a typeface, what type are you? http://j.mp/8Y5PrV #font #design #personality #quiz #typography

Monday, 11th January, 5:02 PM
Droid doesn't. Have touchscreen accuracy, that is... http://post.ly/IAru