It dawned on me that many applications still use the old 3.5 floppy disk icon for the save button. While it is almost second nature to us, what kind of impression would it have on someone who has never seen or used one before?
Monthly Archive for July, 2009
Bill Gates recently mentioned he is dumping facebook due to too many friend requests. This is a (hilarious) mock up of his facebook profile, courtesy of PC World:
After upgrading my wordpress installation to 2.8, it apparently attempted to self-destruct when I attempted a self-comparison of the drafts of my last post.
It started as a count down:
And proceed to have a conversation with you, matrix style Continue reading ‘WordPress Easter Egg’
I was recently tasked to improve the look and functionality of a site that lets users upload images. One of the area I looked into was how it handled automatic thumbnail generation, because I found the thumbnails that were being generated to be, well, plain ugly.
The method they used was a standard resize to max width and height. The uploaded photo is scaled down proportionately to fit into a box of specified width and height. This resulted in irregularly sized thumbnails and even more so when users upload photos with strange dimensions. Not only does it make the page look messy and disorganized, Continue reading ‘Making Smarter Thumbnails’
Was digging through my old files and found these
Unfortunately I have no idea for the credits, so if you see your work here please let me know.
4 beautiful shorts for annecy 2009 openings each day. Gobelins did it again, enjoy