Little Touches Are Important
Sometimes when you’re creating something it’s important to add little gratuitous touches that give the creation character. These can be moments of whimsy, or moments of seriousness, but most importantly they don’t require a practical purpose. There’s a small touch of coolness that got added to this site. I wonder who will find it first. […]
A Small Trick(?) for Expanding Your Cross-Platform Web Font Palette
In creating our little website we encountered a challenge anyone who wants to make their website look nice AND have it work across multiple OSes runs into – that is, picking a font that isn’t Helvetica (or Arial) and is pre-loaded on any machine running MacOSX or Windows XP and later. Alberto Perez over at […]
User Experience Lessons from Lego Star Wars – One of the Best Videogames Ever
In his book Everything Bad is Good for You, Steven Johnson writes what teachers and parents might have said had videogames been invented before books: “Reading books chronically understimulates the senses. Unlike the longstanding traditions of gameplaying – which engages the child in a vivid, three-dimensional world filled with moving images and musical soundscapes, navigated […]