Thoughts on Design

The Verb on web and in life

How using the verbs affects interface reading speed.

Designers from hell

What to do with a designer who’s denying to put snowflakes and a cat on the website.

Oxford comma

Using a special Oxford comma in Russian language.

Prize under cap

A story on how the most primitive Coca-Cola campaign failed.

Specification vs. Brief

Brief is a short list of question, and the Spec is a strict document.

Brains and hands

A story about two types of the designers different, and how to work with them.

Russian web design

A review of Russian web design since 19 century to nowadays.

Blood-sucker tasks

How to determine such tasks, the solving of which itself destructs the project.

Shortly about British symbolics

A short story about British flag. How the most famous identity has been created.

Telepresence robot interface

A research of the interfaces of the robots and the process of creating the best one.

Difference between designers and painters

A super short article about the main difference of these two.

Coca-Cola principles

A story on why is the bigger bottle of Cola is more profitable, and the design.

Faq Off. About questions lists

Getting rid of FAQs

A couple of advices on web forms design

Some ageless advices for the designers and developers on web forms.

Interface inertia

A research of delaying factors in comprehensive interfaces.

Vice versa

A short story about the importance of looking on things at the different view.

Fitts’ law

A research of the most known law of users interfaces.

A fight for the features

A short article on how it’s impossible to fulfil all users expectations.

Paragraphs story

A short historical review of the paragraphs.

Confirm your password

A note on when to ask to repeat the password and when to not.

Technical articles archive

iPhone and iPad smooth animation

About secret webkit properties turning on hardware acceleration.

Как исправлялась Талбица

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Websocket-сервер на Haskell

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Haskell. Зиппер — производная от типа

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Haskell. Классы типов, монады

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Haskell. Типы данных, паттерн матчинг и функции

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Haskell. Основы

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