When I installed Windows 7 on my new 27″ iMac, there was one glaring problem. The screen resolution — a glorious 2560 by 1440 on OSX — would only go up to a maximum of 1600 by 1200 on Windows, resulting in a stretched and pixelated interface. Installing the Windows Boot Camp tools didn’t fix… [read more]
At the start of 2012, one of the things I stated I would do was get a handle on my personal time and project management through implementing a definitive GTD process. Twelve months later, I was still looking… or rather, I had decided the only solution was to roll my own. Back then it was running… [read more]
Today I completed another online course, this time on the development of sound and colour in Hollywood cinema. It was half the duration of my last one, so it seems to have gone by rather fast, particularly as I didn’t exactly follow the prescribed two-films-and-four-lectures-per-week schedule; I started off well, then skipped a week and… [read more]
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not… [read more]
Google Analytics’s Event Tracking is a powerful way to gain a deeper understanding of what is happening on your website. With event tracking, you can record each click, keypress or mouse move; it becomes easy to find out which fields are being filled or skipped on a form, or which thumbnails are being hovered. I… [read more]
January 2012 seems impossibly far away now. Moving house will do that to you — a previous life feels distant and remote, despite the year flying by in a rush of travel, holidays and new projects. The two biggest changes in my life are causally related. In June I handed back the keys to our… [read more]
At the end of 2007 I published a list of all the books I had read that year. It was a fun exercise, so in 2008 and 2009 I did it again. And then, for some reason, I stopped. God knows what I was doing that was so fascinating in late December of 2010 and… [read more]
Almost exactly one year ago, I sat down at this desk (albeit in a different country) to draw up a set of lists collating my listening habits for the previous twelvemonth. Looking back at that post, it’s fascinating how wildly my favourite artists (at least, measured by volume) change each year. Only two bands —… [read more]
Vasilis previously gave his excellent talk on Smarter Defaults in Web Design at the UX Cambridge event earlier this month. Read my full write-up here.
Tammie Lister is a designer with a passion for community and users. She runs logicalbinary.com and tweets as @karmatosed. I am passionate about designing for communities; I love creating ways that people can interact with each other. Sci-fi has taught us that robots don’t do emotion very well. The spark that makes us human is… [read more]