This is the first in a series of articles showing native JavaScript equivalents of common jQuery methods. While you might wish to wrap some of these in shorter alias-like functions, you certainly don’t need to create your own jQuery-like libraries.

April will see me blogging about a small but important piece of the puzzle that is the future of news: the information architecture behind a good news website. Each of the four-and-a-half parts will…

In this talk from 2003, design critic Don Norman turns his incisive eye toward beauty, fun, pleasure and emotion, as he looks at design that makes people happy. He names the three emotional cues that a well-designed product must hit to succeed.

jQuery plugin written by Jay Salvat. Full credits for the Face detection algorithm go to Liu Liu.

Every website needs an audience. And every audience needs a goal. Advocating for end-user needs is the very foundation of the user experience disciplines. We make websites for real people. Those real people are able to do real things. Everyone is happy. But, it’s not really that easy, is it? via Pocket

History and structure of human computer interaction

Я решил протестировать все батарейки АА и ААА, которые удастся найти в Москве. Я собрал 58 видов батареек АА и 35 видов ААА. Всего было протестировано 255 батареек — 170 АА и 85 ААА.

You can do this with a filter, but you have to do something you generally should not do-- echo content from a filter.

Improving the User Experience

WP Image Resizer & a replacement for Timthumb. Extends and uses the default capabilities of WordPress' Image Editors to add some basic Timthumb capabilities.

You can copy any URL on Mouse Over. Which helps you to copy the urls very quickly.

Allows searching, sorting and saving of cache files.
This is a custom upgrade for Firefox of the original CacheViewer add-on by benki.
New features have been added.

We can use a very wide variety of selectors in our key bindings.

Codementor is your instant 1:1 expert mentor helping you in real time.

DefaultKeyBindings.dict file (~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBindings.dict) for Mac OS X, created by Brett Terpstra and based heavily on work done by Lri. Please note that these bindings won’t work in all applications: TextWrangler and TextMate, for example, override these with their own settings. See Lri’s gists and website for more coding madness.

Whether creating an the newest app, an interactive kiosk or an entire Web presence, excellent, usable and understandable design is central to a communicator’s success. Usability and UX Design combines the basics of visual layout with several strategies for building and testing interfaces.
This course is about being a knowledgeable journalist, a media artist, an informed designer and an innovator. Passion for ethical communication and creativity are essential to your success. Understanding users and their behaviors will lead you to becoming an effective creator of digital products. This work opens many possibilities, some of which we are yet to discover. The goals of this class, therefore, are to familiarize you with usability and UX design concepts and allow you the opportunities to experiment, create and explore.