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The title says it all really. This provides a nice jquery plugin and examples of nicely styled video tags to get you started boy howdy.
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//links for 2010-07-29 →
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A free monthly magazine by Hamish Hamilton publishers. Beautifully presented excerpts, history and information. They recommend printing the PDFs and reading away from the computer screen.
//links for 2010-07-23 →
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The Starkers theme is a bare-bones CSS free wordpress theme, ideal for those for those who want to start from (almost) scratch with clean markup and only your own crappy CSS to mess it up.
//links for 2010-07-21 →
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To back up a portfolio entry it helps to have a case study along with it to explain how you benefitted your client or improved an existing service. David Sherwin offers advice on writing them.
//links for 2010-05-11 →
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Beautiful ornamented caps via thepapernut.com
//links for 2010-05-09 →
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Canvas demo with flocking glyphs. Some great interactivity too, try clicking and holding the button down as you move the mouse around.
//links for 2010-05-08 →
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Tidy solution to targeting css to the various versions of IE without extra style sheets or hacks.
//links for 2010-04-29 →
//links for 2010-04-15 →
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This tool follows your mouse around all day, drawing a pretty picture. It's a bit of fun, but very interesting to boot.
//links for 2010-03-29 →
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Sometimes there are elements of a user interface that should be difficult to click on eg. "launch nuclear strike". The end result is that any time somebody does click on something like that it's far more likely that they really meant to.
//links for 2010-03-25 →
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An articulate and well thought out set of examples for combining fonts. The ideas are explained in context but leave you with a better understanding of how the voice of one typeface can complement another.
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A good break down of the bleeding obvious. In all seriousness though this list covers many aspects of UX including design specifics as well as workflow considerations.
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Beautiful example of a flocking algorithm creating an animation that reflects interactions of individual insects, fish or birds that swarm, flock or school.
//links for 2010-03-23 →
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Fantastic collection of genuinely interesting and well directed animated gifs comissioned by the Elisava School of Design and created by Soon in Tokyo.
//links for 2010-03-19 →
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A different approach to user experience design from Danc. We can learn a lot from how games help us to learn and develop new skills and what are essentially new interfaces.
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The site for John Maeda's book about how to achieve simplicity, and why it's a good thing.
//links for 2010-03-17 →
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A CMS that uses text files and a simple templating system offering a very flexible experience. A good fit for portfolio sites and perhaps microsites that don't require much editing after the initial build.
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Very clever experiment by David DeSandro creating a typeface using markup and CSS with impressive results.
//links for 2010-03-16 →
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Great procedural sketching tool from Mr Doob. Built using the HTML5 canvas element and javascript.