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Apr
23
2012

  • It seems like every 6-12 months, a tech blog will punt with some screenshots from The Wayback Machine and a "look at the old web" article.

    I'd be very interested in an article that used original screenshots from the time, and some real historical context and insight into the technologies powering the sites and the way people used them. Just going to Archive.org and taking some screenshots is, well, lazy.

  • Some possibilities:

    * They had good UI designers to start with, so no major changes were needed.

    * By now the site appearance is part of their brand, so they don't want to change it.

    * Amazon may now be such a complex site that a change would be expensive.

    * It's not broken, so there's no need to fix it.

Oct
8
2010

  • Here's the website: http://markup.io/

    We created MarkUp at Medium to help make the QA process better for sites we're working on. Grab the MarkUp bookmarklet, go to some page in your browser, then click it to draw on the page. Publish to make a link you can share.

    We've tried similar tools like BounceApp, Notable, and Skitch. Everything else we found is screenshot-based or takes us out of the browser. We wanted something that felt quicker than screenshots and more integrated with the browsing experience.

    Instead of taking a screenshot, MarkUp snapshots the DOM in the current page, strips the javascript, and overlays a transparent DIV to draw on. We used Raphael for the drawing tools. The server-side is Node.js/Express.

    What do you think? It's in beta and we'll be adding more features, but we wanted to start getting feedback now.

    Thanks

  • This is awesome. We use diigo right now for tagging pages and sharing them but it is pretty weak. The ability to login & keep a history of your markups to share with others in your group would be tops.
Feb
22
2012

  • If you search for “productivity” or “organization” software for the Mac, you’ll find variations on a particular type of application. These applications claim to be “your outboard brain” or “your digital filing cabinet” or similar. They go by many names: Yojimbo, Together, ShoveBox, Evernote, DEVONthink. There may be differences in their implementation and appearance, but these applications are all of the same sinister ilk. They are Everything Buckets.
  • An Everything Bucket, since you’re probably wondering, is what I call applications that encourage the user to throw anything and everything into them. They’re virtual scrapbooks, applying a lightweight organization system to (often) unrelated data of varying types. These applications typically employ a proprietary database, or at best, build atop the SQLite database technology that Apple ships with Mac OS X. They usually default to storing information in Rich Text Format (RTF) or Portable Document Format (PDF). They are Not A Good Idea.
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  • When we designed the extension system for Google Chrome, we looked at how extensions in other browsers worked. One problem we noticed was that many users ended up with tons of toolbars installed. These toolbars used lots of vertical screen real estate, and users didn't know how to get rid of them. And because toolbars were easy to create, they were sort of the default form factor for extension developers. There was no incentive to try and conserve real estate -- instead, developers would just fill up their toolbars with controls because they had the space.

    We decided to create an extension framework that encouraged developers to make UI that fit in nicely with the Google Chrome's minimalist look. You can add a button to the main browser toolbar using browser actions (http://code.google.com/chrome/ex...), or to the omnibox using page actions (http://code.google.com/chrome/ex...).  Other UI surfaces include context menus and desktop notifications. These surfaces are designed to interact nicely with the browser UI at scale, so that users can install many extensions without degrading their experience.

    Future versions of Google Chrome may support infobars (http://code.google.com/chrome/ex...), sidebars, and omnibox (http://code.google.com/chrome/ex...) integration
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