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Login designs: the 9 worst ones and where to find good examples » malcolm coles

by mozkart (via)
Examples of good login design That's what not to do. Here's what to do: 65 Examples of Login Form Design - this is the intro page. To see them all, click the second link in the first para. 36 beautiful login page / form designs - a great collection from Dzine this March. 21 beautiful login page/form designs - another collection from Dream CSS Attractive Login / Signup Interface Designs - more ideas from Greepit.com Designing Login Boxes: 6 examples of Good and Bad Design - thoughts from Design vs Art. Interface Design: Login/SignUp - collection from Web Design Ledger Login form designs and inspiration - some thoughts on options from OpenCrypt. Login Forms - a collection on Flickr (the same user, Factory Joe, has some other collections of interface designs and an interesting blog.) Inspriational Login in web design - another collection from Pattern Tap, a pattern library. Login - Interaction Design pattern Library - thoughts on good design and a collection from the Welie.com pattern library. Using address finders in web forms - this is about address fields in registration processes rather than login. But it was interesting, so I included it here!

October 2009

Aza’s Thoughts » Making Privacy Policies not Suck

by karlcow

karl 10.31.09 / 5pm

I had a smile. Following “You can help us brainstorm them.” I had a page saying that I had to enable cookies to be able to use the site. :)

The brainstorm not accessible without cookies.

loud paper · dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse

by karlcow

loud paper is a zine, and now blog, dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse. It is a slambamgetitoutthere way of linking architectural thoughts, musings, and new work with the culture at large.

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September 2009

love thursday: 24 simple ways to show love in the next 24 hours

by blackgoldfish
1. Buy coffee for the guy standing behind you at the coffee shop. 2. Open the door for someone before entering yourself. It doesn't matter if you're a girl and he's a boy, or you're a boy and she's a girl, or you're both boys, or you're both girls. You can do it. 3. Send a quick email to someone you haven't heard from in a while. It can just say, "Hey, I was thinking about you. I hope you're well." Trust me, it will make her day. 4. Send a small, handwritten note -- via regular mail! -- to someone far away. It can just say, "Hey, I was thinking about you. I hope you're well." Trust me, it will make his day. 5. Give someone flowers, just because. They don't have to be expensive. The blossom above was part of a grocery-store bouquet that cost $3.99. The recipient really isn't going to care that it wasn't expensive. I promise. 6. Invite someone to your home. Have something baking in the oven for them when they arrive. 7. Light a candle and think of someone who is going through a rough time. Silently offer them good thoughts/prayers. 8. Pick a charity. Give something. 9. Buy a magazine subscription for a friend out of the blue. 10. Give blood. 11. Prepare someone's tea. In my opinion, it's a wonderful act of love to not just put the hot water and a teabag in front of a friend, but actually prepare and steep the tea for them. 12. Tell a child -- or someone who is struggling with self-esteem -- how great you think they are. And mean it. 13. The next person who serves you a meal at a restaurant, or helps you in a store, or sells you your morning newspaper, look him in the eyes, smile, and say "thank you" with as much sincerity as you can muster. 14. Give someone a heartfelt hug. Just because. 15. Start a hopeful revolution: leave a hope note somewhere. Extra points if you leave it on the windshield of a stranger's car. 16. Offer to cook a meal for someone. 17. Offer to give someone a break -- babysit, hire a maid service for them, or even straighten her house yourself. 18. Clean out your closet. Give the gently-used clothing you no longer want to a shelter. 19. Take a photograph of something beautiful. Send it to someone, with the note: "This reminded me of you." 20. Give someone something of yours -- a book, perhaps, or a small trinket -- with no expectation of return. 21. Blow out a candle. Make a wish on someone else's behalf as you do it. 22. Make a short list of the things you love about someone you love. Leave the list where they can find it. 23. Make a date to have coffee or a glass of wine with an old friend. 24. Say "I love you." Mean it.

Aza’s Thoughts » Vote! How to Detect the Social Sites Your Visitors Use

by Spone & 4 others
Today I’m releasing SocialHistory.js, code which enables you to detect which social bookmarking sites your visitors use.

Stanford’s Open Source Camera Project

by sbrothier & 1 other
The web is abuzz over a project over at Stanford that aims to revolutionize how we think about photography by building an open source camera (dubbed Frankencamera). That’s right… Open. Source. Camera. While you try to wrap your mind around this new paradigm, I’ll point out of a few of the important aspects of the project and throw in some of my thoughts on it.

Stanford’s Open Source Camera Project

by Spone & 1 other (via)
The web is abuzz over a project over at Stanford that aims to revolutionize how we think about photography by building an open source camera (dubbed Frankencamera). That’s right… Open. Source. Camera. While you try to wrap your mind around this new paradigm, I’ll point out of a few of the important aspects of the project and throw in some of my thoughts on it.

russell davies: meet the new schtick (2)

by karlcow

Mr Gray was smart enough to realise two things; firstly that Lulu have made the mechanics of book-making so cheap and easy that you can move straight to the physical form of the thing as soon as you want. The best way to write a book is bundle all your notes and rough thoughts together and stick them in a book. Then carry that around, make amendments, even invite other people to do the same, until you fancy making another version. And one day, who knows there'll be a definitive 'finished' version. But maybe there never will be.

20th Century Remembrances : un album sur Flickr

by sbrothier
Yet more of the Weird, sometimes funny, sometimes sad but decidedly interesting slides of the 20th Century. All of them were up for grabs at estate sales or garage sales or in the trash, their owners long gone. So I came to the rescue with my trusty scanner and Photoshop. Some of the slides had labels and others needed labels. I provide song lyrics when inspired. Leave your thoughts - that's why I've posted them...

August 2009

Rethinking Maps « Making Maps: DIY Cartography

by karlcow

Lukewarm off the presses, a tome chock full of lofty thoughts on maps and mapping. The blurb about Rethinking Maps, edited by Martin Dodge, Rob Kitchin, and Chris Perkins (Routledge 2009)

Pimki Home Page

by jpcaruana & 6 others (via)
Pimki is a PIM (Personal Information Manager) loosely based on Instiki's Wiki technology. This is the place to dump your brain, organise your thoughts and Get Things Done. The ease of use and immediacy of a wiki combined with extended view to slice and dice the data give you a unique power to store, manage and retrieve all loose bit of information in your life. There are a lot of features added over a regular Wiki, features that only make sense when you view it as a personal application and not so much as a group oriented application. See below for a full list of goodies.

July 2009

phatfusion

by cascamorto & 7 others (via)
javascript and flash development. here you will find a few experiments, ideas, plugins and anything else i'm working on that i think might be of interest to others. i'll post ideas and thoughts about projects i'm working on in my blog The phatfusion forum has been taken down due to spaming, hopefully should be back up soon. mootools plugins: >image menu : horizontal menu, reveals more of the image as you rollover it. >validate : form validation. >lightbox : An inline image popup, overlays and fades out the current page. >multibox : lightbox that supports images, flash, video, mp3s, html. >slideshow : transition between images. >sortable : tablesort and filter tables. >slider : bar and slider. >rounded corners : creates rounded corners on divs. >page loader : Load a div from another page into a div on this page.

Vym

by marcjo
VYM (View Your Mind) is a tool to generate and manipulate maps which show your thoughts.

HTML 5 is a mess. Now what? – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

by night.kame 1 comment

So I’ve tended to be plain accepting that HTML 5 will be whatever it is, and if its bad its bad because of Hickson and a certain crowd. I have no power to affect the obsessive thoughts of certain individuals one way or the other. I’m also probably representative of quite a large group of the silent disenchanted who will continue to code in HTML 4 or XHTML 1 well into the future and fight on building websites in whatever tag soup monstrosity we are burdened with on the day.

HTML 5 est "community driven", ce qui concrètement signifie que seuls ceux qui ont la capacité de travailler à plein temps dessus ont une petite chance de faire entendre une voix différente de la WTF. Mais de toute façon, vu comme c'est parti, HTML 5 finira en browser-sniffing (ou "feature detection" comme on dit aujourd'hui), ce qui en fait déjà un échec immense.

Joe Gregorio | BitWorking | Wave Protocol Thoughts

by karlcow

What makes portions of the Wave API opaque is the parts where the developers gave into temptation and serialized internal state (inside-out) vs designing an API (outside-in).

interieur-exterieur comme approche d'une API

Saxo Bank - Taking The Lead

by gregg
We are Team Saxo Bank, one of the worlds best cycling teams. Taking The Lead is our online channel, where we write about daily life on our team, thoughts, tactics and the challenges we meet while competing in The Tour De France. You can also find a bit of info from our main sponsor.

LifeInDigitalFilm : Presets for lightroom

by sbrothier
Photographer and general media guy. Work a day job to pay the bills, do photography to pay for photography. Consume info, regurgitate thoughts.

June 2009

Thoughts on Opera Unite

by marco & 2 others
[...] while the idea of owning your own data may be attractive to neo-libertarians and open source geeks — most people really don't care [...]

Phototype: image manipulation with Javascript

by redyrod
Lately I had same crazy thoughts on coding a javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. I decided to do some test which eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image. With phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images. Let's start a quick tour.

Thoughts on Opera Unite | FactoryCity

by sbrothier & 2 others
I met today’s news about Opera’s new initiative — called Unite — with a mix of shock and awe. On the one hand, I was sickened by the lack of analysis from the echolalic blogger news corps. It appeared that Opera PR had successfully reached out to all of them, shoved a news release down their throats and waited to give them the go-ahead to regurgitate it on their blogs, using the same screenshots, same content, and differing only in the pithiness of their post titles.

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