Archive for April, 2009


Deiter Rams’ “10 Commandments” of Design

Dieter Rams is probably smarter than anyone reading this blog other than me, and you should all take what he has to say at heart. [Spoiler: He's part of the functionalist tradition of design] Here are his “Ten Commandments” of design:
Good design is innovative
It does not copy existing product forms, nor does it produce any [...]

PitBull4 Video Tutorial

Reposted from my blog on Elitist Jerks
I was going to open this blog post by saying that PitBull must obviously be the most popular UnitFrame addon available, but it looks like xperl has about 3 million more downloads than Pitbull (of course, that might be due to PitBull not being primarily distributed by Curse until [...]

Blizzard Taking a Cue from Apple

As many of you know, the official UI forums have been pretty active with discussions about the effects of Blizzard’s new UI policy (if I were a real blogger, I would have put an inline link to those rules, just FYI). After the rules were posted, I started back-channeling some folks I’ve gotten to know [...]