Font Technologies Font Friday
This article, from SmashingMagazine.com, explicates the concept of parametric fonts. The concept has been around for 40+ years but it has novel applications in web type design. How Font Technologies Will Improve the Web PARAMETRIC FONTS (original article) Words are the primary component of content for the web. However, until a short while ago, all […]
Nobody Knows What Built These Weird Little Web Structures
From wired.com: Something in the Peruvian Amazon is making weird, intricate structures that resemble white picket fences surrounding an Isengard-like spire. No one has any idea who the mysterious craftsbug (fungus? spider?) is, or what the structure is even used for, excepting the fence part, which almost makes sense. Nobody, not even the scientists. We […]
The Hut Where the Internet Began
Alexis Madrigal for The Atlantic: Let’s start at the end point: what you’re doing right now. You are pulling information from a network onto a screen, enhancing your embodied experience with a communication web filled with people and machines. You do this by pointing and clicking, tapping a few commands and organizing your thoughts into […]
The best resources for learning bleeding-edge web, UI and UX design
Great ideas for web, UI and UX design from Colm Tuite, a great authority, on Quora.com, a great site. Here’s a pretty good resource for learning UX/UI design, if I do say so myself. There is a difference between UI design and UX design. There is a lot of overlap though, so I’ll try to bundle […]