MetaFilter posts tagged with design and internet

LOL

Brandon Blatcher — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:53:00 -0800

Emoticons, illustrated.

Clay Shirky In Charge

kliuless — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 21:12:18 -0800

The Role of Inconvenience in Designing Social Systems (slyt via robowhiz) cf. affordances & infinite games

on your third broken window

plexi — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:30:43 -0800

Aurora is a concept video exploring one possible future user experience for the Web.

Blue Vertigo - resources for web design

Gyan — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 23:53:37 -0800

Blue Vertigo | Web Design Resource Links

I think the dragons be somewhere on the other side of Mordorsoft Mountains.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:59:09 -0800

The Web Is Agreement: a poster (large, huge) designed by Paul Downey.

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.

Usability frogs

carter — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:26:15 -0800

Frog Review - Talking frogs review websites.

Type Righter

Robot Johnny — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:14:10 -0800

The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Robert Bringhurt's undisputed bible of typography until now has been limited to print design. This site, a work in progress, presents his principles one at a time, and explains how to follow them as a web designer using HTML and CSS.

3quarksdaily

panoptican — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:34:16 -0800

3quarksdaily. Just another blog, sure, but a good one. 3quarksdaily is a filter blog much like our very own, but with only 15 users (and an editor). As they say on their about page "On this website, my guest authors and editors and I hope to present interesting items from around the web on a daily basis, in the areas of science, design, literature, current affairs, art, and anything else we deem inherently fascinating." The do an admirable job.

Grokker: The Slow Search

gsb — Thu, 19 May 2005 04:19:12 -0800

Grokker. It's powered by Yahoo! search, but the results are presented in a very different way, a visual map [example]. There's a few tools to refine the output. It's different, a bit slower than a "normal" search and requires a bit of patience. There's an affiliated weblog, with an entry explaining their philosophy, "Moving Beyond the Algorithm."

<blink>argghh!</blink>

UKnowForKids — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 06:33:15 -0800

Client: "People don't know what links are on the web yet, you have to make it blink and say 'CLICK HERE!' " Web designer horror stories from the last days of the dotcom boom. (via the Spinnoff forums)

Gone Black?

DragonBoy — Sat, 15 Feb 2003 00:37:46 -0800

Web sites protest by going black. A little over 100 web sites have bandied together to go black on this international day of protest. Some with interesting art, some with personal notes and others with strong words. Are there other web protests going on that you've heard of? Links?

Su — Mon, 29 Apr 2002 01:50:39 -0800

May 1st Reboot . On April 25, participating sites shut down and post a Reboot Holder, until May 1st, at which time they relaunch. Why?
Upon review of all of this year's participating sites, a good number of them are not using the required Reboot Holder. Most have simply continued with normal operations and even made updates as recently as this afternoon.

mathowie — Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:34:06 -0800

This orthopaedic surgery site seems more like a design exercise than an actual attempt at an informative site. Imagine that someone told you to make the site using poor technology choices, couple it with non-professional content not conducive to trusting the doctors, and add a map to the office that does more to enable chuckles than get people to into the business. It's so bad, it's good, and most definitely do not skip intro on this one.

sixandone — Sat, 14 Jul 2001 11:46:47 -0800

We keep hearing about this "who owes what to whom" now that Assembler has closed, and Kaliber and Dreamless are closing.

But what of it? What does it mean? Are we so closed minded to think our Web world is the only one and that somehow the rest of the universe revolves around those of us privileged enough to be able to embark on it as a daily journey?

All of us feel one way or another towards this debate. Either we hate it, or love it, and what of that too? What *do* each of us want from this virtual world? Is there something here worth redeeming and at least arriving at a point to agree to disagree? Discuss?

owillis — Mon, 25 Sep 2000 10:55:55 -0800

NBCi relaunches as probably the most boring, blase portal site I've ever seen and their stock goes up? Is it just me, or does it look like they bought the site from "Al's Do It Yourself Portals"?

CrazyUncleJoe — Wed, 02 Feb 2000 10:24:12 -0800

I think the splash page for Ciudad is excellent. As a matter of fact, I think that the "Two Hot Tamales" have done a great job of carrying the design sense of their restaurants to both of their sites. I wish other restaurants did as well at conveying their ambiance online.