http://spectorbrain.com Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:29:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now, I could start out with a lame joke about meeting Tom Hanks or being sleepless with Meg Ryan or Tom Hanks going to the conference or drinking with Meg Ryan or... you get the point. Let's just agree not to reference that movie at all in this post. A week ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/06/14/spectorbrain-heads-to-seattle-for-an-event-apart/ As web designers and developers, we tend to understand the latest trends and account for them as we create and code. And no matter how hard we try, browser resolution always seems to be one of those trends that rears its ugly head. Yes, 800x600 is slowly disappearing and 1024x768 ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/06/11/browser-resolution-and-layout-design/ Are you too busy to open your emails during the day? Can't afford that extra click of the mouse to receive your friend's message about the latest YouTube video? Or maybe you're just too damn lazy. Whatever the reason, have we got the solution for you. It's quick. It's easy. ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/06/05/designing-for-the-preview-pane/ Yes, it's Friday. Or as I like to call it, Slacker Friday. This is the day that workers everywhere spend more time thinking about the weekend, looking at the clock barely move and talking about anything but work. Now what kind of person would I be if I didn't lower productivity ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/06/01/slacker-friday-the-best-cartoons-of-the-1990s/ This week, Design Interact introduced a new site called Wanderwall. This news item describes Wanderwall as: ...aiming to blur the boundaries between professional and user-generated content in a novel, fun and interactive format." For the sake of this post, let's just agree to say "claiming" instead of "aiming" since it actually ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/05/31/wanderwall-falls-down-as-commarts-builds-it-up/ In his blog, Own Your Brand, Mike Wagner presents a concise and inspiring case study of the creator and athletic superhero of LazyTown, Magnús Scheving. If you're not familiar with the inhabitants of LazyTown and Sportacus, the somersaulting defender of health and exercise, it is definitely worth a look. From a ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/05/29/passion-and-discipline-a-lazytown-lesson-in-branding/ 9 months ago (to the day), I stepped away from the blogging universe with a quote and barely a whisper. At the time, I had too many balls in the air, too many irons in the fire and too many kielbasa on the grill. Too much to do and ... http://spectorbrain.com/2007/05/22/and-away-we-goagain/ Because we don't know what is really important to us, everything seems important. Because everything seems important, we have to do everything. Other people, unfortunately, see us doing everything, so they expect us to do everything. Doing everything keeps us so busy, we don't have time to think about what is really important ... http://spectorbrain.com/2006/08/22/thought-of-the-day-the-worklife-runaround/ Last week, I posted a review of today's most popular logos of Todder TV and analyzed them in the areas of design, emotion and representation. I then boldly declared the winner, loser and honorable mention (at least in my own mind) of each of these categories and overall. Earlier today, ... http://spectorbrain.com/2006/08/19/toddler-tv-logos-straight-from-the-toddlers-mouth/ Competition among search engines to "deliver fast and relevant information" is fierce. Companies such as Google, MSN, Yahoo, Lycos, etc. are in a frenzy to grab your loyalty (and your homepage) by shoving down your throat the power of their search algorithms, uniqueness of their results layout and innovativeness of ... http://spectorbrain.com/2006/08/13/a-closer-look-at-the-binoculars-site-preview-of-askcom/