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Just a really interesting concept for a site and one that Nir Eyal highlighted as making good use of his Hook model.

A good article on using the proper language and injecting some intelligent humanity into the text used on website content, forms and pop-up windows.

AOL "creates an experience" where you can gather all of your e-mail addresses in one place. And you DON'T even need an AOL e-mail address to use it. Interesting..... I'm giving Alto a test drive with a few e-mail accounts.

Interesting new approach to preventing comment / form spam.

In an effort to digitize university libraries, San Francisco State will keep only 25 percent of their million+ books and other materials for browsing.

A good article with several useful RSS readers. Most of them rely on the user having a Google reader account already setup.

speaking of structured light input, saw these guys at sxsw12.  pretty rad, lowcost solution.

Title pretty much describes it. An overview of what Responsive Web Design is and a number of examples.

In this blog post by a Microsoft developer, there are examples of scrolling on a single webpage by moving left to right (vs. scrolling up and down). Also, some main navigational buttons and menus are now on the RIGHT side of the layout instead of the long-used left side of the layout location for these elements. I believe this is an example of the influence of touch screens on tablets, phones, and computers affecting the long held paradigm of left side menu navigation. The gesture navigation of touch screens is making another mark on design and layouts.

CSS Button Generator will create beautiful css buttons for you to use on your web pages without the need for any images.

An interesting article on brainstorming. READ WITH A GRAIN OF SALT because it is an opinion piece. Brainstorming DOES work - I have personal experience with it doing so when I worked with a multiple CLIO winning advertising team. The way that the New Yorker writer defines brainstorming is very limited; but the article does have some insight into the creative process using measurable results.

This is a Chrome extension that will resize your browser window to the break points in the code of the current site you are viewing. Those sites without breakpoints show a blank window in the extension. Responsive Inspector is helpful to see all of the breakpoints a particular site uses. Some have several breakpoints, other sites have just a few. It's a good learning tool. It's a wee bit buggy sometimes, but it's being updated regularly. If this link does not work, just search for "Responsive Inspector" in the Chrome browser Extensions.

Neat site full of printable paper of all custom types. Might be nice for sketching out designs.

Nice find! Thanks for sharing.

Putting something important in a graphic can backfire. Wonder if this applies to that Ask a Librarian Survey graphic that Joe asked for?

It's definitely a valid point to bring up banner blindness (as in the "article" linked). Banner blindness can easily be addressed by size, position and weight (just some of the principles of graphic design that will help a graphic be effective). The environment in which the graphic is placed is very key, of course, and must be addressed when determining whether or not a graphic will be used. Thanks for posting, Jade!

How to add a lightbox iframe in Drupal without the page template displaying.

Perhaps we could use this when building a mobile version of our site.