Randomness

~ 21 July 2008 ~

A conglomerate of news, linkage, and some inspiring stuff I missed while I was away.

“Open Range” in Print August issue: I’m quoted in the August issue of Print magazine. It’s brief, but hey, I’ll take it.
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman: I’ve been enjoying this book on/off in audio format (available in iTunes) for a few months now. The World Without Us explores how our planet would “recover” from human presence if we suddenly disappeared. Give the chapter on plastic a listen and it’s likely you’ll never think the same way about plastic bags, water bottles, and the like.
Putting Your Email on a Google Domain: Not happy about the fact that your Gmail address shows rather than your domain when replying to email on your iPhone? If you’re willing to spend a little time setting up your domain on Google (without switching hosts or nameservers), this may be for you.
House Industries Ampersand Tees: Nice.
Cooler Business Cards: The second installment in Inspiredology’s series of inspiring business cards.
California’s Continuing Fires: The fires are no longer headline news (thankfully for Californians), but some of these photographs are beautiful.
A word for @#$%&?!!!: Grawlix, that’s the term.
Enterprise UI Summit: Are you an “enterprise” designer? Jive Software is hosting an event at the Sky Hotel in Aspen, Colorado, August 7-8. Airfare and hotel stay covered by Jive Software. Apply/RSVP if interested.
Logopond Awards 2008: I had a hand in judging these, along with several other judges. Not all of the winners are ones I chose to be featured, but good picks nonetheless.
Inspiration Series: Magazines: Plenty to be inspired by here.
iPhone NY Times GUI: Felix Sockwell gives a brief account of the iconography work he did for the NY Times iPhone app.
WebAnywhere, a Screen Reader On The Go: This software apparently allows blind users to have access to screen reader software from any computer. I wonder if there’s a chance the rest of us (sighted) could use this for initial accessibility testing?
“Gorilla” Usability Testing with Silverback: Garrett Dimon beat me to it. A very thorough review of Silverback, a good app for guerilla usability testing (still in beta).

6 Comments

Veer: Visual Elements for Creatives.
Stock photography, type, and killer tees. Genuinely recommended by Authentic Boredom.

1 Ty Hatch ~ 21 July 2008

Go to the alpha link and you can test any page. And it looks like they’ve open sourced it too!

2 Mark Priestap ~ 22 July 2008

Weird… someone *just* told me about WebAnywhere yesterday.

3 Cameron Moll ~ 22 July 2008

Here’s what Aaron Cannon had to say about WebAnywhere:

I just tried it. It worked. It was painful to listen to, it was slow, and the pronounciation was terrible, but it is a huge step. I will definitely keep an eye on it, and possibly use it if I am ever at a computer without a screenreader.

4 Brant Schroeder ~ 22 July 2008

An individual I know at our local university is blind and runs a software that costs over $2000.00 on his desktop. If he comes across issues on any of our sites I always have to travel to his office so I can see and listen to the problem. This will be a handy tool for us in the future.

5 Flüge Amerika ~ 06 August 2008

The pictures of the struggling men are just breathtaking. Beautiful on the one hand. On the other just scary and sad.

6 Twizzed ~ 14 August 2008

Twizzed is completely random. Have you Twizzed? Twizz to be taken to a totally random website!

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