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Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Wireframes: Struggles and Solutions, Part 1 | things that confuse me

http://sourjayne.com/uxblog/?p=38

Wirefram examples and discussion

The Hottest Business Card Designs of the last 8 years…

http://ever-real.com/blog/the-50-hottest-business-card-designs

Nice new batch of business card designs.

Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes

http://www.noupe.com/css/using-css-to-fix-anything-20-common-bugs-and-fixes.html

Good resource, I'll have to set the time aside to go over it.

Monday, June 09, 2008

volll

http://www.volll.com/#section_main

Great portfolio site with tons of personality.

Thursday, June 05, 2008

Whitechapel - Science fiction karma

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=1840

Cool message board thread featuring old scifi magazine covers.

Monday, June 02, 2008

‘Sarcasm’ brain areas discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4566319.stm

Well that explains me.

‘Sarcasm’ brain areas discovered

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4566319.stm

Well that explains me.

Sunday, June 01, 2008

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/

Yahoo made public its awesome collection of stencils for most wire-frame and graphics programs. Worth the download.

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

ShopComposition

http://www.shopcomposition.com/

Linked not just for the awesome goods (if overpriced), but check out all the javascript effects and the uber-resizable layout (click the green things and menu items). Nicely done.

The Pragmatic Bookshelf | Building a Dynamic Website with ExpressionEngine

http://www.pragprog.com/screencasts/v-riexp/building-a-dynamic-website-with-expressionengine

Learn my favorite content management system the visual way with this fairly affordable series of screencasts. My one issue is you may want to wait for EE 2.0, though the ideas will for the most part carry over, even if the UI is dramatically different.

Sex, Story Telling And Games

http://powet.tv/2008/05/27/sex-and-games/

Two must view cartoon styled lectures about the future of video games as a creative medium. One taking on the not as yet fully discovered art of story telling in games, the other, on how to deal with sex as a story mechanism, not just a sales tactic.

The Art of Gianluca Mattia (NSFW)

http://www.gianlucamattia.com/

Modern day punk pinup artist, beware some nudity. I'm just a sucker for the alt-goth and 50's pinup look.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Blank Vector Clothing Templates

http://outlawdesignblog.com/2008/free-blank-vector-clothing/

Possibly useful one day

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Preview Handlers for WindowsXP

http://www.azarfamily.org/previewhandlersforwindowsxp

Finally frustrated that I could not preview my gotvmail voicemail emails inside outlook, I googled for an outlook preview pane extension, and found this! Handles darn near everything and makes the function actually useful.

Saturday, May 10, 2008

Graffletopia

http://graffletopia.com/

Stencil sets for OmniGraffle, useful for wireframing your next .com. Perhaps I should switch from Visio?

About

Hi, I’m James Buckley.

I’m a 26 year old web geek with a background in design, usability and nerd-foo. I’ve been blogging designing commercially since high school and I currently work for Nutmeg Consulting as a business system analyst.

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