Jul 16, 2008

My kind of motivational poster

Etsy has some beautiful new motivational artwork from OrangeBeautiful for your office or thinkspace.

orangebeautiful.etsy.com.

Jun 25, 2008

FF3 - Ugly no more

You have to give Mozilla’s design team credit for trying to make the new default theme for Mac Firefox look “native,” but to anyone barely familiar with Apple’s UI design, it is a horrible facsimile. The big back button cluster was laughable during beta, and it’s even more ridiculous in the full feature release. [...]

Jun 08, 2008

I have a doppelganger

Dear Eli Horn: I’d like to take this moment to apologize. I’m sorry that I’m the #1 google result when people search for you, despite the lack of an E at the end of your last name. It’s especially poignant since we both make websites.
Every once in a while, I pull up Mint, [...]

Jun 06, 2008

Cool icon illustrating tutorial

While Smashing Magazine is a prolific resource that can be relied on for useful links and great lists, their posts tend to err on the side of “retardedly long.”
I’m subscribed via RSS, and I rarely make it past the halfway point before deciding that I simply don’t have the time to consume all the information.
9/10 [...]

Jun 04, 2008

Google, What the eff?

Ok, so this isn’t a crisis like the Earthquake in China, and it certainly won’t make the front page of the New York Times, but here at EliHorne.com I get to focus on the little things that make me say “WTF.”
I’m not sure exactly when, but at some point in the last week (I think), [...]

May 12, 2008

Little known feature on this site

While I work on the aforementioned forthcoming design that has a much more robust search/navigation system, I felt it important to note that this site does have a search bar.
I love to think that people use the tags on the left of each post to get to related content, but I know deep down it [...]

May 06, 2008

a WinMo phone with nice UI? Has Hell frozen over?

HTC premiered their new Touch Diamond handset today, and judging by the pictures, it looks like someone actually layered on a nice “looking” user interface on top of the crap-stack that is Windows Mobile.

Considering the wealth of talented designers that list their portfolios and availability on the internet, I’m always shocked by how rare it [...]

Apr 25, 2008

Rad collection of vintage 70’s logos

Check out this 120-photo deep collection of throwback logos (flickr photoset), ready and waiting to inspire your next project or brand.

via We Run The Streets (welcome back!).

Apr 17, 2008

Form resource for UI designers

If you’ve ever mocked up a website, you know that a big inconsistency between browsers is the way they render form elements. Drop down menus, input fields, buttons, and the like. JavaScript can take you a long way, but eventually someone is going to come along with JS turned off, and they [...]

Mar 18, 2008

RIM just doesn’t get it

I saw in the news (and by news I mean Techmeme) that RIM just re-upped their littlest model, the petite Pearl, to be equipped with Wifi. Well, that’s great and all, but have they (or you for that matter) ever tried to use the wifi feature? By the time the user navigates to [...]

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