The history of album art || Matthew Ström, designer-leader
An enjoyable guided tour of album artwork starting at the beginning of the twentieth century.
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Design Systems Database: Surf among top‑notch Design Systems
A collection of collections, this is a directory of design systems, with the handy option to browse by component type. The blueprints section is still a bit thin on the ground, but likes the most useful bit—an in-depth dissection of individual compenent types.
Why are hyperlinks blue?
A wonderful bit of spelunking into the annals of software interfaces by Elise Blanchard.
Should The Web Expose Hardware Capabilities? — Smashing Magazine
This is a very thoughtful and measured response to Alex’s post Platform Adjacency Theory.
Unlike Alex, the author doesn’t fire off cheap shots.
Also, I’m really intrigued by the idea of certificate authorities for hardware APIs.
FriendChip Beacons - With support of Eddystone and Physical Web
I quite like the idea of broadcasting my URL from a friendchip bracelet.
mozilla-magnet/magnet-client-desktop: A simple Physical Web menu-bar app for URL discovery and broadcast
This should be a lot more straightforward than process I linked to before.
Exploring the Physical Web (Without Buying Beacons) — Medium
Well, this is interesting! It turns out you can turn your laptop into a beacon for broadcasting a URL to devices that support The Physical Web.
Google’s ‘Nearby’ Lets Your Smartphone Talk to the Internet of Things | Motherboard
An early look at the just-in-time interactions that Scott has been working on:
Nearby works like this. An enabled object broadcasts a short description of itself and a URL to devices nearby listening. Those URLs are grabbed and listed by the app, and tapping on one brings you to the object’s webpage, where you can interact with it—say, tell it to perform a task.
Bluetooth gloves
I think this is kind of brilliant.
Stick-n-find
Spimify your household with these bluetooth location stickers. Now you can google your shoes.
Mobile Apps Must Die | Blog | design mind
Scott writes up some of the things he talked about at the Breaking Development conference: the just-in-time interactions that are inevitable in a heavily-instrumented world.
Letters of Note: I think I no how to make people or animals alive
This is why, when a child posits something ridiculous-sounding, you should encourage them.
The Man in Blue > There are no social networks
Cameron's plea for social network transparency and portability is one of the most lucid and succinct yet.
Blueprint: A CSS Framework
Pulling together a bunch of CSS tricks from a range of sources: reseting, baseline typography and grids (fixed width, unfortunately).
Wintec WBT-201 Bluetooth Data Logger GPS Receiver (Auto on/off, WAAS, Bluetooth, USB, Push to Log, Google Earth Integration with Photo) (Bonus Bottle Cap Tripod) (Your Choice of Free Mount)
I gotta get me one of these. Just think of the mashup potential!
mezzoblue § Chalkwork Basic Royalty-free Icons
Dave has made some icons — very nice ones.
The Man in Blue > Experiments > Web Coolness Calculator
Calculate your Web Coolness, courtesy of Cameron. Of course he couldn't resist one more jibe at me in there.
mezzoblue § About Mezzoblue
Dave redesigns. And before I could bash him for his wide fixed width layout, he went and added a Jeremy Keith Button® on his about page that toggles between liquid and fixed. Cheeky bugger.
Devlounge | Cameron Adams aka The Man In Blue
Cameron shares his thoughts on Ajax, Hijax, libraries and having fun.