House of Buttons A collection of UI buttons spotted in the wild curated by Jason Long. (tags: buttons gallery inspiration design)
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links for 2011-03-04
All Our Ideas – A Suggestion Box for the Digital Age All Our Ideas is a platform that enables groups to collect and prioritize ideas in a transparent, democratic, and bottom-up way. It’s a suggestion box for the digital age. Method: pairwise comparison. Results get a score: a percentage that reflects the chance that this …
links for 2011-03-02
Europarl Parallel Corpus A Parallel Corpus for Statistical Machine Translation The Europarl parallel corpus is extracted from the proceedings of the European Parliament. It includes versions in 11 European languages: Romanic (French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese), Germanic (English, Dutch, German, Danish, Swedish), Greek and Finnish. The goal of the extraction and processing was to generate sentence …
links for 2011-02-22
A List Apart: Articles: Designing Web Registration Processes for Kids Article on web registration processes for kids, with examples of how Barbie, Lego and others work. Main points: visual or audio instead of or in addition to text (reading is still developing), privacy concerns, ask only what's really necessary. (tags: children signup ux)
links for 2011-02-21
Color Oracle Color Oracle is a colorblindness simulator for Window, Mac and Linux. Simulates common types of color blindness. (tags: color accessibility tools)
links for 2011-02-20
What Happens When You Really Meet People's Needs – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review story about customer service at Ritz Carlton (tags: service branding overdelivering) Business Blog / The Most Powerful Colors in the World by COLOURlovers :: COLOURlovers The web landscape is dominated by a large number of blue brands… but red occupies …
links for 2011-02-19
Lighthouse International – The Vision Simulator Using filters that simulate macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, glaucoma, hemianopia and retinitis pigmentosa, over YouTube videos of your choice, the simulator suggests some of the visual problems that a person with eye conditions experiences every day. (tags: simulation vision impairment video)
links for 2011-02-06
wordmark.it quickly previewing how a wordmark looks with the fonts installed on your computer (tags: typography tools design)
Problems older visitors may have with your website
Internet and computer technologies are used by people of all ages. There are some problems that can come with increasing age, and if you’re designing for this specific age group, it can be wise to pay special attention to their needs. 50+ users are often still very healthy, but in the 70+ age group almost …
links for 2011-02-01
Remove unused CSS – CSS Optimizer A web crawler follows the links of your site. On each page, we retrieve the CSS files and list the selectors. The selectors are tested on the html page. If the selector matches an element, it is marked as used. When all the files have been visited, a new …