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23rd March 2005

PATH: Ways-of-Working in Photography

“Most photography books concentrate on the optical, mechanical, electronic, and chemical tools of photography. Other books are about various photographic subjects and genres. Photographer + Camera + Subject = Photograph. What about you? This book is about the most important factor in your photography: you.”

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23rd March 2005

I Like Your Colors!

“Type the URI of a page … and submit it to see what colors it uses…”

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23rd March 2005

Stateful Linking to Rich Internet Applications

“This is an example of linking to specific states within rich internet applications. Note that the application states are described with # anchors at the end of the URL just like specific locations in an HTML page. As the state in the application changes, the URL updates and can be bookmarked to return to that particular state. In this example, each photo represents one of five different application states in Flash…” (Thanks Andre!)

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23rd March 2005

The Journal of IA Failures

“Something I’d like to see: reporting on IA failures, and what was learned from the carnage. Failure stories are a literary genre in and of themselves; even the most dispassionate, technical ones are hard to put down. That’s what makes them such great learning tools.”

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23rd March 2005

The non-typographer’s guide to practical typeface selection

“Let’s be frank right off the bat: I don’t presume to be a typographer, or even anything close to an expert with a replete knowledge of typography and its history. Instead, I take a more practical approach to typeface selection, given the environment I’m generally in rarely requires that I need to complicate the process further.”

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