Loud Dog Links

June 30, 2009

• Inbox Zero
  My name is Matthew DeClaire, and I endorse this message.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: email, gtd, productivity

June 27, 2009

• With regards to the advice given in the new PHP speed tips article - Make the Web Faster (Google Groups)
  Google posted a bunch of stuff on how to make PHP faster. The PHP guys (Zend) disagree with pretty much everything and offer their own advice.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: development, programming

June 25, 2009

• The Bug, the Worm and the Death Star (Identity Forum)
  Deep in the conservative bowels of corporations and brand identity firms, they've got cute little nicknames for logos. The GE logo is The Meatball, the AT&T logo is The Death Star, and the Warner logo is Two and a Half Hot Dogs. (via Kottke)
  by: Josh Orum | tags: branding, design, identity
• Deriving Design Strategy from Market Maturity, Part 1 (Jared Spool)
  Interesting article on different design approaches.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design

June 23, 2009

• Stop Password Masking (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)
  Yay! I hate masked passwords. It's such a pain in the ass. Nielsen even has a good solution for public computers: a checkbox that turns on masking.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: usability, webdesign

June 19, 2009

• Utility Marketing: Usefulness Creates Connections (Odopod)
  By creating brand-supporting applications that consumers (and customers) can easily use to solve immediate problems, companies are able to shortcut the traditional marketing and create better relationships with their customers.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: branding, marketing

June 15, 2009

• In the search of Holy Web Grid (Carrer Blog)
  An attempt to come up with the best grid for web design, using the Golden Ratio. Based on a 1024 browser width, but supporting smaller resolutions.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: webdesign
• jQuery Typing
  Weeee!!!! Type your name real fast.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: javascript, jquery, ui
• Dear Dustin Curtis (Dustin Curtis)
  American Airlines UX responds to Dustin Curtis's redesign. I think the UX Designer's letter is more interesting than Curtis's following rant. Curtis is right in some ways, and he writes more about it on his blog.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, usability

June 11, 2009

• jQuery Tools
  Another tool library laid over jQuery. This one looks really promising. Nice and small.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: framework, javascript, jquery, webdesign

June 10, 2009

• Yes! 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to Be Persuasive (alex.moskalyuk)
  This is very interesting.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: business, interesting, psychology, social

June 4, 2009

• Adobe BrowserLab
  BrowserLab purportedly shows you renderings of your website across several browsers and operating systems. I'll reserve judgment until after testing.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: testing
• Image Upload Preview Demo
  At first this is impressive. Then I think to myself, "As the user, I know what image I'm uploading." Then I think, if the image could be placed into context of use in the site, this would be really cool.
  by: Matt DeClaire | tags: javascript

June 3, 2009

• Six Steps to Easier E-mail (ClickZ)
  Good list of best practices for e-mail marketing.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: bestPractices, emailMarketing
• Shorter Subject Lines outperform in e-mail marketing (Direct Mag)
  Not surprisingly, a study by MailerMailer found that shorter subject lines led to high open and click-through rates. What was surprising is that the results were almost double!
  by: Josh Orum | tags: emailMarketing

June 2, 2009

• Warmer, Fuzzier - The Refreshed Logo (NYTimes.com)
  A bunch of prominent consumer brands have changed their trademarks this year. The NYT explores some of the changes and the reasons behind them.
  by: Josh Orum | tags: branding, design

June 1, 2009

• GOOD Transparencies Archive - a set on Flickr
  Awesome set of infoporn from GOOD Magazine
  by: Josh Orum | tags: design, designInspiration, informationDesign