http://1percenter.com Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:48:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My interests change in cycles over time. Sometimes I am interested in making music, sometimes I want to improve my design skills, sometimes I am curious what new software people are evangelizing, etc, etc... These phases can last weeks or even months at a time. I have a cadre of feeds ... http://1percenter.com/2009/02/05/where-can-rss-feed-readers-go-next/ >"Ideas are like fish. >If you want to catch little fish, you can stay in the shallow water. But if you want to catch the big fish, you've got to go deeper. >Down deep, the fish are more powerful and more pure. They are huge and abstract. And they're very beautiful." >— David ... http://1percenter.com/2007/03/25/david-lynch-on-creativity/ ## Above? Left Justified? Right Justified? [Luke Wroblewski](http://www.lukew.com/ff/ "Luke Wroblewski's blog") gave an excellent talk called "[Design Patterns](http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/programming/panels/?action=show&id=IAP060142 "Design Patterns")" at [SXSW](http://2007.sxsw.com "SXSW 2007"). A highlight was when Luke presented the results of user interface research into the advantages of various form label alignments. I've condensed the slides from Luke's talk ... http://1percenter.com/2007/03/24/where-do-form-labels-go/ Discovery is the act of finding information. There are two types of discovery, active and passive. 1. *Active discovery* is seeking out a solution to a specific problem you are having. For example, if you were launching a website, google searching a good hosting company is active discovery. 2. *Passive discovery* is ... http://1percenter.com/2006/11/14/vpztms-part-6-discovery/ Seeport.com is a site designed to help technology developers find commercialization partners. Users sign up and create a profile using an Ajax interface (demo video of Ajax interface below). The site also includes an integrated wiki and blog created using MediaWiki and Wordpress respectively. What I did: Designed the website, coded ... http://1percenter.com/2006/11/14/seeportcom/ [Lingos.cc](http://lingos.cc "Lingos.cc") is a new web-based translation site that myself and my business partner, Ian McIntosh, are launching. This screenshot of the homepage should sum up the functionality: You enter text on the homepage and click translate. A real live native spanish speaker translates the text in under 24 hours. Then you ... http://1percenter.com/2006/10/29/announcing-lingoscc/ Lingos.cc is a web-based translation service where customers enter text into the homepage and a real live bilingual translator translates it in under 24 hours. I co-developed the concept, designed the interface, and coded the interface using Ruby on Rails templating. What I did: Co-developed the concept, designed the website, coded the ... http://1percenter.com/2006/10/29/lingoscc/ I was tempted to add [MenuMeters](http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/menumeters/ "MenuMeters Homepage") to the "[VPZtms Compendium of Tools](http://1percenter.com/2006/09/19/vpztms-part-5-compendium-of-tools/ "VPZtms Part 5")" post because if I'd added it (and [Growl](http://growl.info/ "Growl Homepage")), the list would have included all the applications that I am *always* running on my machine. I refrained because technically they have nothing ... http://1percenter.com/2006/09/28/a-word-about-system-monitors/ Flash intros aren't looked highly upon in the web design community and with good reason. Web surfers have notoriously short attention spans, so you don't want to make them sit through a *movie* to get into your site. With that said, I've never been able the shake the feeling that Flash ... http://1percenter.com/2006/09/22/flash-intros-are-the-grand-entrance-halls-of-web-design/ All of the tools I listed in the "[Compendium of Tools](http://1percenter.com/2006/09/19/vpztms-part-5-compendium-of-tools/ "VPZtms Part 5")" section are either free, have a free version, or come built-in to OS X (excluding [TextPander](http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=textpander "TextPander Page"), which was just recently made a paid product). This tendency towards free software is a side-effect of the ... http://1percenter.com/2006/09/21/vpztms-part-5-appendix-a-choosing-software-tools/