eating cucumbers without permission...

Great typographic art.

We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts:

• Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing.
• The stopwatch consistently proves mousing is faster than keyboarding.

This contradiction between user-experience and reality apparently forms the basis for many user/developers’ belief that the keyboard is faster.

The Question can be put simply: How did [the Neuland and Lithos typefaces] come to signify Africans and African-Americans, regardless of how a designer uses them, and regardless of the purpose for which their creators originally intended them?

On techniques for the production of attractive and informative maps.

Fantastic site from the NASA Color Usage Research Lab about effective ways to use colour in displays with high information density. Add this to your bookshelf next to Tufte.

There are many such conditions. I threw up a little in my mouth when I first saw the band name "5ive", for example, and again this weekend at a clothes shop called "Temt". Text messages provoke uncontrollable weeping.

The REST Bible.

Behaviour-regulating designs: the supermarket tile thing I posted the other day is one, but also websites that make it hard to leave, reduced visibility at roundabouts to improve safety... the list goes on.

Every key is a display, so the keyboard itself changes between charsets, layouts, and functions.

Cool retro televisions -- what they thought in the 50s looked sleek and futuristic.

This'd be a wicked useful feature at a stock photo website.

Free patterns, good for website backgrounds, desktops and such.