Design

Best button ever: "Create an imaginary friend" (Jul 10, 2008)
I like FriendFeed. It's simple and useful, and it brings the utilitarian-but-well-engineered feel of Gmail to social media (several prominent Google/Gmail alums developed FriendFeed). FriendFeed has one great and, I think, unique feature called "Create an imaginary friend." It lets...

Brand Tags: the really effective tag cloud (May 14, 2008)
In my book I write about some of the trade-offs involved in making tag clouds. Whenever you have a lot of tags, tag frequencies usually follow a power-law distribution. A few tags are used lots of times; most tags are...

Tagging, the book (Jan 17, 2008)
So my book, Tagging: People-Powered Metadata for the Social Web is finally done and available for order from your favorite bookstore: Amazon.com Amazon.ca (Currently #485 in books) Chapters/Indigo Amazon UK (only 2 left in stock!) Amazon Germany (#1 in Non-fiction...

Earlier Posts

Goodhart's Law and social web design (Jan 15, 2008)

Hello Tagbot (a riff on Twitter tags) (Sep 6, 2007)

Clouds evolve beyond tagging (Feb 2, 2007)

The Experience Cycle (Dec 4, 2006)

Tyranny of the box (Oct 13, 2006)

Leverage points in Digg (Sep 12, 2006)

The Entertaible (Aug 30, 2006)

Start with a hypothesis, and other good design advice (Aug 21, 2006)

The genius of Digg (Aug 18, 2006)

What is that "I ♥ NY" typeface? (May 16, 2006)

Understand > Attempt to Fit > Repeat (Apr 6, 2006)

Why Flickr and not Fotolog? (Apr 4, 2006)

I <3 Brokeback (Mar 1, 2006)

Introducing the scroll wheel to web applications (Feb 1, 2006)

Nintendo's Virtual Console needs a designer (Jan 12, 2006)

Google Video Store underwhelms (Jan 10, 2006)

The proliferation of simple tools (Dec 16, 2005)

Simple tools: the Wonderbar (Dec 6, 2005)

The Ray Ozzie memo: a design shift at Microsoft? (Nov 9, 2005)

Tagging tags to make synonyms (Oct 31, 2005)

Reductio ad Apple (Sep 21, 2005)

BplusD, a business design blog (Sep 16, 2005)

What happened to the IDEO shopping cart? (Sep 6, 2005)

The Zen of Wireframes (May 30, 2005)

Product design patterns (Jan 10, 2005)

Stack (Dec 31, 2004)

Why does a microwave have a world-oriented clock anyway? (Aug 23, 2004)

Manhattan unfurled (Jul 2, 2004)

Spark:03 Conference (Jul 25, 2003)

Welcome Geoff Lilge (Jul 25, 2003)

Lorem Ipsum Generator (Mar 16, 2003)

The Canadian aesthetic (Feb 24, 2003)

Expo 67 (Dec 20, 2002)

Vulvacious accessories for your iPaq (Dec 9, 2002)

Pure Sale-a-bration (Dec 3, 2002)

The Gandalf Pumpkin (Nov 7, 2002)

Exercises in Style (Jun 19, 2002)

It says free shipping, right? (May 16, 2002)

High five (May 6, 2002)

Alexa (May 4, 2002)