Saturday, July 28
Suicide Prevention Center
Using the paper cut idea, they have made a very creative and meaningful social campaign. By CCV, Centro de Valorização da Vida in Brazil.
140 Named Colors
Over the last few years, all of the major browsers have included support for a special set of 140 colors that are recognized by their color name within HTML or CSS code.
This means that rather than having to remember that the color orange is specified with the hex code “#FFA500″, you can simply type the word “orange” when specifying a color in your code and the browser will automatically translate it to its hex code.
Check them out:
http://www.colorschemer.com/blog/2007/07/24/140-named-colors
Caution: Contents May Be Hot!
Now here’s an ingenious product: Sydney-based Smart Lid Systems has developed a coffee lid that uses color to let you know when it’s safe to drink your beverage.
If your drink is too hot, the normally-brown lid will turn bright red to warn you that you’re about to burn your mouth. And if it isn’t sealed properly on the top of cup, the lid shows spots of brown to indicate it’s loose.
McDonalds could have used this product a few years ago when they lost a lawsuit for $2.9 million (later reduced to $640,000) to a woman who burned herself and filed suit because her coffee was too hot. And I could have used this last week when I burned the roof of my mouth and couldn’t taste anything for 2 days.
Blasting The Myth Of The Fold
We are all well aware that web design is not an easy task. There are many variables to consider, some of them technical, some of them human. The technical considerations of designing for the web can (and do) change quite regularly, but the human variables change at a slower rate. Sometimes the human variables change at such a slow rate that we have a hard time believing that it happens.
This is happening right now in web design. There is an astonishing amount of disbelief that the users of web pages have learned to scroll and that they do so regularly. Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.
Read full article:
http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of
Monday, July 23
Information Architects 2007 Web Trend Map
Information Architects have released their Web Trend Map for 2007, a subway map of the 200 most successful websites on the web, ordered by category, proximity, success, popularity and perspective. In theory it demonstrates the relationship between various sites and ideas, with a strong focus on Web 2.0. Click the image for a larger version or click here for the pdf version.
Monday, July 16
Saturday, July 7
Attaché: Droplet For Quick Mail.app Attachment Lists
After watching a work colleague manually adding attachments to a Mail.app message, Martin Michel decided that there must be a better way.
And he made one. He has created Attaché, an AppleScript droplet that quickly creates an new email, with all the attachments dropped on it included and listed.
Just dump it on your Desktop (or wherever you like to keep droplets–in the Dock, perhaps). Select the files you want to send and drop them onto it.
Check it out:
http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/06/19/attache-droplet-for-quick-mailapp-attachment-lists
How Not To PowerPoint
Don McMillan on most common mistakes people make while doing PowerPoint presentations. Next time make sure you will not do the same.
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