Here’s my problem: I have to remember the date I made a change on a website if I want to do a simple before and after comparison in Google Analytics. Something happened on March 17, but you’d never know it by looking at Google Analytics. What if Google Analytics let you place a simple marker [...]
I had no idea Brian Eno created the ubiquitous Microsoft Windows startup sound. Cool trivia aside, Eno’s description of the creative constraints are revealing: The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I’d been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I [...]
These are so cool! Lokesh Dhakar created infographics of baseball’s most common pitches. I’m a baseball fanatic, and even I couldn’t have described the motion of half of these pitches. Here they are in easily digestable infographic format. Note the subtle use of color to indicate pitch speed. (via kottke)
We finally made Maggie’s bookbinding site live last night, after going through many months (!) of design and redesign. There are a few things that still bug me but I’m pretty satisfied and, more importantly, Maggie is too. It’s the first site I’ve designed from concept to completion in a long time. I was rusty. [...]
My GMail account had some new features when I logged in this morning. The most noticeable addition is Contacts, a lonely looking link that lets me manage the contact information of anyone in my GMail inbox. I don’t really do contact management (I’m not that important), but I like that GMail takes the task of [...]
It’s not your fault! Error messaging on Basecamp (I think this is their 404 error, but I could be wrong).
HTML tables improve readability of sports statistics and increase the chances that people will discover trends and outliers within the data.
Sans Comic Sans is written by Matt Raw in Brooklyn, NY.