A brand new way to look at your Mac desktop, BumpTop is a full 3D experience with smooth, realistic physics, making your Mac’s desktop act more like the real desktop it’s sitting on

WELCOME TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB, AN INTERACTIVE MEDIUM IN WHICH SCREEN RESOLUTION STATISTICS ARE TRIVIAL, BROWSER VIEWPORTS ARE VARIABLE, AND SCROLLING BEHAVIOUR IS A STANDARD.

THERE IS NO PAGE FOLD.

LOVE YOUR SCROLLBAR

It’s no great mystery that truly great user interfaces are the ones that are engineered to stay out of the way. ‘Staying out of the way’ means not distracting your users. Rather, good UIs let your users complete goals. The result? A reduction in training and support costs, and happier, satisfied and highly engaged users. When getting started on a new interface, make sure to remember these fundamentals …

We are the Cheese & Burger Society. We firmly believe that cheese is the Grand Pooh-Bah of every cheeseburger ever grilled at a backyard barbecue or served at a roadside diner. Not just any slice of cheese, but the one and only Wisconsin Cheese.

We know usability testing is a pain. It’s expensive and time-consuming. As a result, it doesn’t happen enough. That’s why we built UserTesting.com—we wanted to bridge the gap between no user testing and expensive user testing. UserTesting.com lets you "look over the shoulder" of people in your target audience while they use your website. And we make it fast, easy, and inexpensive, so you’re more likely to do it.

These buttons just launched in Gmail yesterday, and they’ve been in Google Reader for two months now. The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.

"Last, but certainly not least, this may be the last time you ever have to manually upgrade WordPress again. We heard how tired you were of doing upgrades for yourself and your friends, so now WordPress includes a built-in upgrade that will automatically notify you of new releases, and when you’re ready it will download them, install them, and upgrade your blog with a single click."

With the recently launched WordPress 2.7, bloggers now marvel at how clean, beautiful and usable is the new interface. But do you remember what it used to be a couple of months ago? For those who started using WordPress years ago, can you remember what your admin area looked like?

Simple, Cheap Usability Testing for Your Website. Start a usability test for your web project in two minutes. Submit questions about your site and receive up to ten responses from our reviewers. The cost is $7.

It’s been a long time since themes.wordpress.net stopped accepting new themes. Since then most theme authors have been distributing their themes from their own sites, without a good centralized place for people to browse, search, comment on, and rate th

A new way to view Flickr photos and more

Breadcrumb NavXT is a WordPress plug-in compatible with WordPress versions 2.5 and up. This plug-in generates breadcrumb navigation bars for your WordPress blog.

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