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FormBox: jQuery/CSS3 Drop-Down Menu with Integrated Forms

FormBox: jQuery/CSS3 Drop-Down Menu with Integrated Forms:

Most common use case for something like this is probably hiding login fields inside a drop-down (or flyout) menu, e.g. Twitter.com and other sites.

/via @smashingmag

'Undercover User Experience Design' by Cennydd Bowles and James Box

'Undercover User Experience Design' by Cennydd Bowles and James Box:

Subtitle: Learn how to do great UX work with tiny budgets, no time, and limited support. Translation: UX design for the common man.

'Undercover User Experience Design' by Cennydd Bowles, James Box

'Undercover User Experience Design' by Cennydd Bowles, James Box:

Subtitle: Learn how to do great UX work with tiny budgets, no time, and limited support. Translation: UX design for the common man.

Kindle 3 First Impressions

Kindle 3 First Impressions:

Marco Arment, lead developer of Tumblr and Instapaper:

The iPad can do a lot more, but people who claim that it's 'killing' the Kindle are clearly not Kindle owners. Buy an iPad if you want to browse the internet, play music or video, check your email, or launch flaming peas at zombies.

But when you want to settle down and read a book, the Kindle is a much better choice.

/via Riccardo Mori

TotalFinder

TotalFinder:

For me, the Mac OS X Finder has been broken since 10.0 was released. It's a hassle to move files from one location to another.

I've been using this TotalFinder plug-in for a couple weeks now to add much-needed tabs to the Finder. I'm discovering, however, that tabs aren't the right UI pattern for what I need. Instead, Transmit-esque, side-by-side panes would probably be more efficient than tabs for file management. After all, this is what I've been doing for years now anyway when ...

Lettering.JS

Lettering.JS:

A lightweight jQuery plug-in for "radical web typography", developed by Dave Rupert for the aforementioned Lost World's Fairs.

Lost World's Fairs

Lost World's Fairs:

A website showcasing IE9 and its support for WOFF, accomplished by showcasing three designs by Naz Hamid, Frank Chimero, and Jason Santa Maria. Each design is just about as fantastic as web design gets.

For related reading, see write-ups by Naz Hamid, Frank Chimero, Jason Santa Maria, and Trent Walton (front end development).

Self-Employment, 12 Months Later

In just two short weeks I'll complete my first full year since rejoining the ranks of the self-employed. What a ride it's been — exciting, inspiring, tiring, challenging.

As you may recall, I published four objectives for my business shortly after making the leap. What follows is an evaluation of my performance for each of these objectives. Scores are based on the U.S. education system, with 'A' being the highest score and 'F' being the lowest. The '+' and '-' characters add granularity to...

Meet the New Twitter.com

Meet the New Twitter.com:

Skip to 1:10 in the video to view the new interface. Short version: It looks to be quite similar to Twitter for iPad, with a two-pane experience for viewing tweets on the left and details for each tweet on the right.

I still interact with Twitter primarily through Twitter.com — I know, I'm an anomaly among tech folk (but not among the average user) — so this will my interface when it's released in a few weeks. I'm positive the new design has been developed under the w...

10K Apart Winners Announced

10K Apart Winners Announced:

The grand prize winner? Sinuous, an addictive game requiring you miss red dots and touch green ones with a comet-like character. Other entries included a piano keyboard, a Space Invaders knockoff, and a screenshot notation app.

And if you're wondering how all of these were done with just 10 KB of code, note that submissions could include the jQuery, Prototype, and Typekit libraries without counting against the final 10 KB.