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Less is better - remembering Jobs, remembering Rams

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:26:05 +0000

Dieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden, Hesse) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design. (Wikipedia) One of Rams greatest quote is: Less is better.

Steve Jobs - 13 best quotes

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:26:51 +0000

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them

Forver Steve Jobs

Thu, 06 Oct 2011 13:16:03 +0000

Steve, we will miss you forever.

Missing Missy: How much design is too much

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:32:01 +0000

This is originally from http://27bslash6.com/missy.html. It shows how a designer thinks different from a non-designer. Sometime, too much design is really too much.

The Dutch are Making QR-Coded Coins. Seriously

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:47:00 +0000

The Royal Dutch Mint have produced a limited edition of QR Coded coins to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Mint in Utrecht. The silver 5€ (image below) and the gold 10€ will be issued on June 22, 2011 when the Mint promises that if you scan the code “…you will be surprised at what you’ll see”. The code scans as http://www.q5g.nl and at the time of writing resolves to the Royal Dutch Mint’s non-mobile site. It will be interesting to see just how scannable the code really is in practice, given that the larger of the two coins is only 33 mm in diameter.

More cellphones users than their population? Yes. At least in 28 countries/regions.

Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:31:59 +0000

Do you know in some countries, there are more mobile phones than the total population in the country? According to wikipedia, at least in 28 countries/regions, there are more active cellphones than the total population, including Russia, Brazil, Germany, Italy, UK, Ukraine, Spaine, Argentina, Poland, Taiwan, Romain, etc.

40% cellphone users subscribed 3G data (123.2M), by Dec 2010

Wed, 08 Jun 2011 15:15:10 +0000

According to CTIA (Cellular Telecommunication Internet Association, the trade association of mobile phone companies in the US), by the end of Dec 2010, there are 302.9 million mobile subscribers (users).

Among these 302.9M users, 123.2 million are 3G subscribers.

What does this mean? 123.2 Million cellphone users might visit your website on their cellphone!

37% cellphone users now own smartphones - Nielsen May 31

Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:26:56 +0000

Nielsen released a report in May 31, 2011 saying that 37% mobile users now own smartphones: 74% of Android smartphone owners and 79% of iPhone owners report having downloaded apps in the past 30 days;43% of Android owners and 46% of iPhone owners say they streamed online music or mobile radio in the past 30 days; 35% of Android smartphone consumers and 37% of iPhone owners report having watched video or mobile TV in the past 30 days.

Homedepot & Super Stop & Shop love QR code

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:59:26 +0000

If you still think QRcode is far away, think again. I was at two stores Monday: the Homedepot and the SuperStop&Shop. Surprisingly, I saw both stores are using QR code in their pricing tag.

It is graduation time-Steve Jobs at Stanford Univ at 2005

Mon, 23 May 2011 13:56:03 +0000

It is those time again--the graduation time. Commencement speeches are catching everybody's attention. My personal favorite commencement speech is the speech from Steve Jobs at Stanford University, 2005.

Stay Hungary, stay foolish

20% of E-mail Sent by Retailers is Opened on a Mobile Device

Tue, 17 May 2011 17:37:29 +0000

This is a somewhat old news. According to a study released in Jan 2011 by Knotice, 20% of E-mail Sent by Retailers is Opened on a Mobile Device.

What the president of American Eagle thinks of Mobile Web

Sun, 15 May 2011 17:54:32 +0000

In the Feb 2011 issue of the Internet Retailer magazine, there is article titled: how today's smartphone and computers change retailers' site design strategies. In the article, the president of of AmericanEagle.com, Michael Svanascini, argued that aesthetic appeal no long drives e-retail web site design. Today, retailers need to think more about designing sites compatible with the growing variety of devices consumes used to access the web.

Simplist css-only dropdown menu in html

Tue, 10 May 2011 23:17:44 +0000

Drop-down menus are very common in today's web design. There are many ways to implement a drop-down menu. Here is our way. It is powered by CSS only. No javascript (we recommend avoiding the use of Javascript in web design unless necessary).

PBN.com: going mobile a must for many firms

Tue, 10 May 2011 00:40:19 +0000

Providence Business News published an artile titled:
“If you’re not in the mobile space in some way, you’re doing your customers a disservice,” said T.J. Sondermann, manager of business development at BatchBlue, which launched its Batchbook mobile app in late October and is approaching 5,000 installs presently.
Read more here.

10 best quotes on mom

Sat, 07 May 2011 16:10:31 +0000

My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. -Mark Twain
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. -Tenneva Jordan
It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew....I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.-Charles Chapli
Children and mothers never truly part - Bound in the beating of each other's heart. -Charlotte Gray
Mother's love grown by giving.-Charles Lam
A mother understands what a child does not say. -Jewish Proverb
God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. -Jewish Proverb
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. -Irish Proverb
Most mothers are instinctive philosophers. -Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never marry a man who hates his mother, because he'll end up hating you. -Jill Bennett

Tomorrow is Mother's day. While moms probably do not teach us how to design a website, without them, nobody can learn from anybody to design a website.

Moms are great.

osama Bin Laden is dead

Mon, 02 May 2011 14:21:20 +0000

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Big thanks to the US special forces team.

A list of html special characters for you to copy and paste

Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:32:52 +0000

Here is a list of popular special characters in HTML. This is not a comprehensive list. It only covers some that are most commonly used. The font has been enlarged so that it is easier to copy and paste. Notice the list one is a special Apple character, not necessarily a special html character.

Being charged or quoted by pages for your website? Run.

Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:41:44 +0000

Do you need a new website? Are you quoted/charged by pages?You need a new firm. It is amazing that so many web designing firms are still quoting by the pages. It is simply not right.

What is captcha and when to use it

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 14:09:49 +0000

CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It is a mechanism to stop automatically posting to a website from a spambot--a computer robot. If your website is inundated with spam comments or you receive too many spam contact messages that looks like a copy & paste, it is time to implement CAPTCHA. While website owners have total freedom to implement CAPTCHA, here are a few guidelines on when and how to implement a CAPTCHA system. Please notice these are Zoria Media's own guideline. Please consult with your CTO to make your own decision.

10 reasons Obama needs to fire his web team of the website - whitehouse.gov

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:08:45 +0000

You would think Obama would hire the best web guy for the website--the whitehouse website.

Think again.

Here are 10 reasons that Obama should fire his web team.

The picture files should optimized. Considering it is a high traffic websites, everything should be optimized.
All picture files should be in lowercase to avoid platform compatibility problem.
The home page is too heavy at 1.3M in size. It is just too rude.
The source code looks ugly without proper indents.
With such a heavy websites, the web team should have used Content Distribution Network (CDN) to speed up the download.
Does this meta tag of keywords look good to you? "President, Barack Obama, White House, United States of America, 44th President, White House history, President Obama, Barck, Barek, Barak, Barrack, Barrak, Obma, Barack".
28 errors in w3c validator. Some are minor but what about duplicated IDs? How about ALT for a hyperlink?
33 errors in the second CSS file?
You have to enable Javascript to see ANY picture in the gallery? How about show the first picture for no-script?
Can you fix the pagination problem in the video section? Forget about Javascript. But if you want to use it, please fix the pagination problem so that the page will correspond to the correct video.

Oh, by the way, thanks for offering a mobile version of the same website, although it needs lots of work.