Last week, I held a keynote presentation about Symfony2 at the Symfony Day conference in Cologne. Many people asked me forthe slides, but they were quite empty and not that useful. This blog post ismore or less what I've said during the first part of the talk. What is Symfony2? When I ask people…

Here’s the most streamlined signup process I’ve seen yet. Stripe , a really cool new payment processor, has your standard demo button at the bottom of their landing page. Clicking on it takes you right into the admin dashboard for the app. Now…other apps have a demo function, that’s nothing new, but…

Some things we now know to be good ideas: Writing operating systems in a compiled machine-independent programminglanguage. Performing file I/O by reading, writing, or overwriting integralnumbers of bytes at integral offsets. Creating processes by duplicating existing processes. Null-terminated byte…

Introducing Instapaper 4.0 for iPad and iPhone The lede here is that my pal, Marco , has just released the stellar new 4.0 version of his Instapaper suite. This is fantastic news, and–as if you needed one more of Marco’s beta testers to say so–I do sincerely hope you’ll mark the occasion (and…

by Luke Wroblewski October 18, 2011 Published in Mobile/Multidevice, Interaction Design ∙ A note from the editors: We are pleased to present an excerpt from Chapter 4 of Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski (A Book Apart, 2011). When it comes to organizing the content and actions on mobile, solid…

UARRR: Noch nicht gelesen, aber hier, superlanges Steve Jobs Interview von '85: http://t.co/MxyQ5lhw (via QUOTE.fm)

In recent weeks I've seen several editorials and forums discussing the "Post PC" Era. Having lived through a similar transition to the PC era, I'd like to offer another perspective. First, desktop PCs aren't going to disappear anytime soon. They have many wonderful advantages, but they'll gradually…

I've noticed a number of blogs and forum posts that keep citing Android market share as evidence that Android is catching up to the iPhone, or even surpassing it. This is misleading so I'd like to put it in a broader context. Back in the 1960s, when U.S. manufacturing was thriving, business studies…

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Bill Buxton, author of Sketching User Experiences , says the job of an interaction designer is to create a memorable experience when someone uses a product or visits a site. ZURB uses sketching as a communication and collaboration tool with entire teams. Visualization through sketching helps us to…

Auf dem Frühstückstisch unserer Familie liegt seit vielen Jahren keine Tageszeitung mehr, das Fernsehprogramm interessiert so gut wie nie, und immer seltener schaffen es DVDs oder gar CDs in unseren Haushalt – es zeichnet sich außerdem ab, dass auch der Zuwachs in den Bücherregalen im Lauf der…

People were creating awesome stuff way before we online product people tried defining this as "user experience design."' Just look back at Henry Dreyfuss' Bell Telephone from the 1940s or jump ahead to OXO's angled measuring cup today. They did it by sharing a vision relentlessly centered on…

If you've written any kind of validation on user input, like onkeypress then you'll know that sometimes you want to throttle the amount of times your function runs. A good example of this is Ajax based username validation - you don't want to hit the server on every key press, because most users will…

Regular expressions are strings formatted using a special pattern notation that allow you to describe and parse text. Many programmers (even some good ones) disregard regular expressions as line noise, and it’s a damned shame because they come in handy so often. Once you’ve gotten the hang of them,…