About 8% of the male population has some sort of color vision deficiency. The
color blind are unable to clearly distinguish different colors of the spectrum, they tend to see colors in a limited range of hues. Because of this, the color blind have trouble with a lot of websites. The patterns and examples on
We Are Color Blind help developers create websites the color deficient can use with minimal problems. Take a
color vision test to see where you stand.
50 facts about color blindness.
posted by netbros
on Sep 28, 2009 -
93 comments
Newspaper Website Design: Trends And Examples. News websites can be intriguing to examine from a design perspective. Regardless of what type of news they cover, they all face the challenge of displaying a huge amount of content on the home page, which creates plenty of layout, usability and navigational challenges for the designer. The lessons that can be learned from examining how news websites address these challenges can be valuable for designers who work with other types of websites, including ones with blog theme designs.
posted by netbros
on Nov 11, 2008 -
9 comments
Meet the new New York Times. After
five years, the most popular newspaper on the web has gotten a facelift. Joining a recent web design trend towards
optimizing for wider screens, they've gone for no fewer than six columns on the front page. And while I wouldn't look for a wiki any time soon, they seem to be giving a nod to the web 2.0 crowd with javascipty scrollable image bars and prominent links to recent
video (hello, YouTube) and
current rankings of their most popular, most emailed and most blogged articles (hello, Technorati). The new
Times Topics aggregate articles (and multimedia) from across the site, along with background info (hello, Wikipedia). All the more impressive, considering the head of their design team (who also
redid The Onion!) was
hired just three months ago. Of course, Mickey Kaus will still see this as proof that Sulzburger should be fired.
posted by gsteff
on Apr 3, 2006 -
92 comments
Follow the Rhinos Weblog tracking two white Rhinos as they travel next month to the Phoenix Zoo. Nice looking site (via
CSS Vault). In related news, poachers have killed about half of the world's population of wild white rhinos in the last year (
more here).
posted by oissubke
on Aug 19, 2004 -
2 comments
Looking for a design for your next website?
Open Source Web Design is a site that offers tons of free web design templates that you can take and modify for your own needs.
posted by oissubke
on May 30, 2003 -
10 comments
Looking for a design for your next website?
Strange Banana is a generator that randomly produces XHTML transitional, CSS-layout-driven webpages. Hit "refresh" repeatedly, and find that one layout that matches your inner web designer's dream. (
Found on Zeldman's Daily Report.)
posted by Katemonkey
on May 30, 2003 -
20 comments
CSS Zen and the art of
motorcycle website maintainance; a stunning demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS–based design.
posted by riffola
on May 10, 2003 -
36 comments
Visual Relationships at Amazon.com - Here's an interesting visual implementation of the Amazon API. It's almost like flipping through books on the shelf. What's next? A 3D bookstore rendered on the Quake engine?
posted by Argyle
on Mar 3, 2003 -
2 comments
Evil SBC acts like bully going after small sites with an absurd patent. If you've ever designed a web site with "selectors or tabs that... seem to reside in their own frame or part of the user interface" such as Metafilter's header or Amazon's tabs or c|net's yellow side bar, then your design is in violation of SBC Communication's patent number
5,933,841. Here's the abstract:
A structured document browser includes a constant user interface for displaying and viewing sections of a document that is organized according to a pre-defined structure. The structured document browser displays documents that have been marked with embedded codes that specify the structure of the document. The tags are mapped to correspond to a set of icons. When the icon is selected while browsing a document, the browser will display the section of the structure corresponding to the icon selected, while preserving the constant user interface.
Armed with this patent SBC is going after web sites with a licensing fee of $100,000 to $16,000,000. Will this insanity ever stop?
via Jarle's Cyberspace
posted by DragonBoy
on Jan 21, 2003 -
47 comments
It would appear that our original warning was not sufficient.This is the second message you receive when you right-click at this
website a second time. And then it LOCKS UP YOUR COMPUTER(use ctrl/alt/del to close browser and unlock.) The first time you right-click you are given this warning..
Images and all text on our website are protected by copyright--DO NOT attempt to copy."give me one ping,give me one ping only please"
What..the..
posted by JohnR
on Dec 2, 2002 -
84 comments
Bom is some sort of project management company, but I'm more impressed by their whiz-bang cool design on their site. Kinda like the
HabboHotel,
Eboy (
their town), and
k10k aesthetic taken corporate.
posted by mathowie
on Jul 9, 2002 -
8 comments
DVD Menu Design: The Failures of Web Design Recreated Yet Again. We've all been thinking it.
Very Nielsen-esque, for obvious reasons, but without a lot of what we hate Nielsen himself for.
posted by Su
on May 8, 2002 -
18 comments
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.
posted by Su
on Apr 29, 2002 -
15 comments
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.
posted by mathowie
on Apr 13, 2002 -
32 comments
eDesign is a new magazine/web site dedicated to "interactive design and commerce." Nice design; bummer about the frames.
posted by kirkaracha
on Apr 7, 2002 -
13 comments
Deepend.com calls it quits. U.K. web design firm Deepend has decided to fire all 90 employees and liquidate assests, due to the ripple effect of the 9/11 attack. That's their excuse anyway. If most or all of their clients were air or travel related I could believe their reasoning. What do you think?
posted by catscape
on Sep 25, 2001 -
11 comments
Transmission - this is the best (storming use of bog standard - works in Netscape - javascript) site I've seen in ages (via
Shift via
Play with the Machine) (warning: I'm no web designer, so you trendy people in black out there are free to tell me this is tired old cliche).
posted by andrew cooke
on Aug 21, 2001 -
27 comments
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?
posted by sixandone
on Jul 14, 2001 -
10 comments
“Nobody needs information architects anymore” “His problem, he figures, is simple: Nobody needs information architects anymore. The entire discipline was overly specialized, a hologram created by temporarily explosive demand for Web-site design, which vanished last year.” (Link sometimes worked and sometimes did not over the course of ten trials in three browsers.
ROBMagazine.com → Table of contents → “Crash Test Dummies” will get you there.)
posted by joeclark
on Jun 4, 2001 -
21 comments
Join the first-ever
Blogger Template Design Contest and you might win part of over $6,000 in prizes!
p.s. contest only open to residents of the United States, so nuts to you if you're a dirty steenkin foreigner
posted by lia
on Apr 27, 2001 -
51 comments
A Flash usability white paper that says Flash can improve the usability of a web site.
"When executed correctly, with attention paid to the needs and wants of users, Macromedia Flash content can actually improve the user experience on any Web site."
Can Flash be saved if developers start thinking about usability? Is this going to impact Jakob Nielsen's 99% figure?
posted by Dugout
on Apr 9, 2001 -
8 comments
