14 Mar 2008

Administrative Debris

“I hold that simplicity is the most important attribute of design,” I say. To which Tufte would reply, “No, you don’t.”

tomayko.com   13:13

25 Aug 2009

Readability (bookmarklet)

Interesting bookmarklet from arc90. Removes all superfluous content and administrative debris from the current page and turns the main content into something very readable. Comes with a few options for font-size and margin width. I’m rockin the Newspaper style with large text and medium margins. The entire web looks like my blog :) Love it.

Oh, and a tip for Safari + Webkit users: drag the bookmarklet to the first position in your bookmarks toolbar and you can use “Command + 1” as a hotkey.

lab.arc90.com   16:37

07 Oct 2008

"Air Budd Form Builder" meets "/admin Considered Harmful"

Bill Burcham applies the technique of making form controls inherit style from their container in the Air Budd Form Builder Rails plugin. Cool.

youtube.com   19:56

18 May 2008

The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces

Interesting look at evolution of UI and the semi-recent trend of adopting the web’s content oriented interface. Definitely overlaps with the fundamentals of “admin debris” and related ideas.

readwriteweb.com   09:21