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Bad Survey Design. Please Stop! — All This ChittahChattah

January 26th, 2010

At work, I’m developing a new survey to ask our new hires how the on-boarding process went. Because of all the terribly constructed surveys I’ve taken in the past, I decided to take the process of building it seriously. I searched on the web for any guides to building a good survey. One that I found concise and useful was Steve Portigal‘s “Bad Survey Design. Please Stop!” on his blog “All This ChittahChattah“. I’m not sure about the blog’s title (but then again, I’m not sure about my blog’s title, either), but the article was very useful. I found many of his points informative and helpful.

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Book Staircase

January 17th, 2010
Staircase Bookshelves (from fubiz.net)

Staircase Bookshelves (from fubiz.net)

I love books and creative design. Unfortunately for some, space is very tight and finding room for their books can be a challenge. Rather than pitching out the books, Levitate (London), cleverly folded their architectural skills and creativity together to make a Book Staircase. The sides are almost flush with the forward shelf edges. The steps alternate. Overall, a very nice job. I wonder if there are any lights (cable lights, maybe?) underneath the shelving.

The apartment, which apparently belongs to Victoria and Sebastian and has been featured numerous other places, including ApartmentTherapy (where other photos of the apartment are available) and Boing Boing.

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New Feature: Typekit support

January 5th, 2010
Snapshot of the Typekit Kit Editor

Snapshot of the Typekit Kit Editor

I just updated the site with 2 new fonts from Typekit: Chunk for the headers and Droid Serif for the body copy. You can also see which faces I’m using. Although it’s an experiment for now, the potential looks tremendous. After I read that the Harvard Business Publishing is using Typekit on their HBR website, hbr.org, I thought it would be worth a trial run. What are the benefits? How much does it cost?

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I Love Typography: The Rather Difficult Font Game

January 3rd, 2010

This is pretty nerdy, but I’m getting to really love typography — serif this, ascender that, kern this, forge that. It all sounds so… foreign. Oooohh. So, when I heard about I Love Typography‘s new little online game, cleverly titled “The Rather Difficult Font Game” I had to give it a go.

The Rather Difficult Font Game: screenshot

There’s even an iPhone version!

While spending time playing the game, I like to think I’m honing my typographic skills (such as they are!), but having a blast doing it. When my point counts get higher, I might post them here… Until then, you’ll have to keep guessing, just like I do in the game. :)

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the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry

December 31st, 2009

I’ve always enjoyed a nice graphical diff, like WinDiff, WinMerge, or KDiff3 — something that shows how a document has changed since some previous incarnation. Ben Fry, father of Processing, has taken this idea to an extreme with Darwin’s Origin of Species by showing how Darwin’s book changed with each revision, graphically depicting the variations in the document by chapter with each revision. » Read more: the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry

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