Death of the Desktop by Aza Raskin
Notes from Aza Raskin’s presentation on Death of the Desktop from ajaxian. Thanks ajaxian.
Further to this: Humanized weblog, A Design Manifesto: Rethinking the User Interface, The Humane Interface: New Directions for Designing Interactive Systems
Eight New Standards from W3C
The W3C has announced that they have published eight new standards in their XML Family.
The new standards will play a large role in connecting databases with the Web and they “will support the ability to query, transform, and access XML data and documents.” - Eight New Standards from W3C.
Anyone remember WCAG 2.0?
WCAG 2.0. Published by the WAI on the 27th April 2006, all that time ago. So what’s happening? Did it slip of the edge of the world? Was it seized by crazed Standardistas and ransomed for fudge and tea?
Well, The Pickards may have an answer.
Creating Inspired Design Part 1: I Am The Walrus
“Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife, pornographic priestess,
Boy, you been a naughty girl you let your knickers down.
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus”- I Am The Walrus, 1967, Lennon-McCartney
In Andy Clarke’s article ‘Creating Inspired Design Part 1: I Am The Walrus‘, he talks about merging ideas and inspiration in different and unexpected ways to push design for the web.
The man is mad. Which is why his voice is so valuble. Bloody good stuff.