Over the last month Apple has released several updates to iTunes and the iPhone firmware. Most notably is the addition of Genius which is essentially Pandora for you personal music library. Select an artist/song, then Genius will make a smart playlist with other similar songs. I was a bit skeptical at first but after using it a bit I’m pretty impressed. What I like most [...]

Any serious designer uses the Lorem Ipsum dummy text on a regular basis. While recently building a website that required me to make frequent text submissions, I came across this super handy Lorem Ipsum Widget for Macs. Now, instead of going to the Lorem Ipsum website to copy and paste, I simply go to my Dashboard and use [...]

Being that my life pretty much revolves around surfing I found Wired Magazine’s article about popular beach communities and their water toxicity levels quite disturbing. The article rates 16 popular beaches based on fecal matter from wildlife, storm drains, and leaky sewage systems… naaasty!  Looking at the list it seems California is the big winner for amount of turds [...]

Flogged Magazine is a new site that showcases rejected web designs. Unfortunately I have nothing to contribute but I’m excited to see all mockups that clients decided to give the boot. My bet is that most of them will be pretty darn good and got rejected because someone didn’t know what they were talking about. One the [...]

One of my new favorite blogs The Usability Post wrote a great little article on the use of verbs inside of dialogue boxes. The words “Yes”, “No”, and “Ok” don’t convey what’s going to happen when you click a button. However, if you use verbs like “Save” and “Don’t Save” it becomes much more clear what action the button preforms.

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