“The London Underground map is copyright of Transport for London. I’m not making any money from this so don’t sue me. Please. It’s taken me since March (mostly because I’ve not had long periods of not working on it) and this is the third and final version but finally it’s finished. There’s no deep artistic meaning…I just fancied a go at it and its probably not 100% accurate but I had limited information to go on plus my own sparse knowledge of the tube.”

“The first question that comes to mind is an easy one (at least for me), It has been quite some time since we’ve heard anything from ‘Camp David,’ where have you been for the past five years? Has it been a conscious decision to stay off the public eye?”

“By default, all popular Web browsers assume the HTTP protocol. In doing so, the software prepends the ‘http://’ onto the requested URL and automatically connect to the HTTP server on port 80. Why then do many servers require their websites to communicate through the www subdomain? Mail servers do not require you to send emails to recipient@mail.domain.com. Likewise, web servers should allow access to their pages though the main domain unless a particular subdomain is required.”

“The London Underground map is copyright of Transport for London. I’m not making any money from this so don’t sue me. Please. It’s taken me since March (mostly because I’ve not had long periods of not working on it) and this is the third and final version but finally it’s finished. There’s no deep artistic meaning…I just fancied a go at it and its probably not 100% accurate but I had limited information to go on plus my own sparse knowledge of the tube.”

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”

“Created for designers by ARTIS Software and The Iconfactory, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts.”

“When I wrote my first Keep it Simple column I assumed the old, overly-complex way of looking at Web site creation was on the way out. Web developers were consciously moving towards a simpler way of making sites, or so I fondly imagined. Not so. The complexity monster has reappeared, right in the center of modern Web development. Nowadays it doesn’t manifest itself as an endlessly nested table, but as an endlessly complicated CSS hack.”

“…Tufte has invoked the principles of Evelyn Wood speed-reading in his reductivist ad absurdum take on the discipline of Graphic Design. He is a statistician by training, a designer by marriage, and a sociologist by default — giving names to stuff we already know, and getting paid handsomely for it along the way…”

“The executive dashboard is a hot technology product. The logical progeny of portal applications and technology, the executive dashboard is a single interface that serves as the point of entry into the masses of data and information within a company that might be relevant to a particular executive.”

“…Tufte has invoked the principles of Evelyn Wood speed-reading in his reductivist ad absurdum take on the discipline of Graphic Design. He is a statistician by training, a designer by marriage, and a sociologist by default — giving names to stuff we already know, and getting paid handsomely for it along the way…”

“The executive dashboard is a hot technology product. The logical progeny of portal applications and technology, the executive dashboard is a single interface that serves as the point of entry into the masses of data and information within a company that might be relevant to a particular executive.”

“Notes on Transitional Volatility by David Danielson, also the topic of his master’s thesis. It’s a rare, rigorous look at the common guideline to ‘make navigation consistent’ in a world that has big websites where the navigation must change from time to time. His finding showed that complete consistency is not always the best route.”

“Digital Web: ‘Accessibility’ is now part of the Web development community’s lingua franca. However, it’s often used as shorthand to mean making a site function for blind people. How would you define it, in the Web development context? Joe Clark: I use the same definition of accessibility everywhere: Accommodating features a person cannot change or cannot change easily.”

“How to use everyday ingenuity to solve problems big and small… Ever been in line at the grocery store, sitting in a meeting, refinancing your mortgage, programming your VCR, waiting on hold, choosing an HMO — and thought to yourself: ‘There must be a better way to do this!?’ This book challenges us to stop accepting the status quo and, in the words of Robert F. Kennedy, ‘to dream of things that never were and ask ‘why not?””