This is not a test.

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If he started doing that near me I’d math.floor() him
— My nerd quote of the day

If It Looks Corporate, Change It

Managers, Sales, Marketing - please read this.

Then read this book by Steve Krug.

Are you familar with happy talk?

If you’re not sure whether something is happy talk, there’s one sure-fire test: if you listen very closely while you’re reading it, you can actually hear a tiny voice in the back of your head saying “Blah blah blah blah blah….”

A lot of happy talk is the kind of self-congratulatory promotional writing that you find in badly written brochures. Unlike good promotional copy, it conveys no useful information, and focuses on saying how great we are, as opposed to delineating what makes us great.

Happy talk is the kudzu of the internet; the place is lousy with the stuff.

Carry on at: Coding Horror (Jeff Atwood)

Social Media Venn Diagram Have it as a t-shirt

Social Media Venn Diagram

Have it as a t-shirt

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Interface vs. implementation” is a split that runs all the way down a software project, from UI vs. code to the names of individual methods. Knowing which of the two hats you’re wearing at a given moment is key to keeping complexity under control and communicating better with your team.
— 37signals (via deplorableword)
Managing UI Complexity

deplorableword:

“The amount of visual noise in an interface has a great deal of impact on the perceived complexity of the interface. And contrast plays an important role with respect to visual noise. Using lower contrast UI elements reduces visual noise which will often reduce the effective complexity of the interface.”
Virgin trains are smiley trains! Do they always do this?

Virgin trains are smiley trains! Do they always do this?

clairehartley: On Consistency: Saw this beautiful graphic underlining the power of consistency over at thinkingalaud. (via swissmiss)

clairehartley:

On Consistency: Saw this beautiful graphic underlining the power of consistency over at thinkingalaud. (via swissmiss)
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The high heel is a highly abstract and exceptional vision of female sexuality that does not relate to reality. unless you are barbie you dont have feet like that, but nonetheless it is a powerful symbol of erotic femininity and one of the most striking examples of fashion and eroticism.
— Valerie Steele
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Love is the period of time between meeting a beautiful woman, and discovering she looks like a trout
— unknown