July, 2007

• In a NY Times article today, entitled Pressure Builds to Ban Plastic Bags in Stores, there is a discussion about the banning of plastic bags in grocery and drug stores in favor of [recycled] paper bags. I was really into the article until I read the following comment:

  “At the hearing, a lobbyist for [...]

  The Worship of Choice

• If you’re looking for a way to further your education without the expense and pressure of design school, there’s another way to go about it. I wouldn’t say it’s easier necessarily, but it can be done on your own time and at your own pace with a lot of the same benefits as if you [...]

  Free College Education for Designers

• You know the horizontal nav that often goes in the footer, the duplicate of the main nav? Whenever I’ve used a footer nav I’ve always tried to figure out some kind of clean separator to put between the list items. Usually it would look something like this:

  Home | Products | Contact [...]

  Footer Nav Breaks

• Something caught me in my feed reader today that I felt I had to share. Tammie Lister (“Diary of a Website](http://www.diaryofawebsite.com/) wrote today about the benefits of allowing your users more flexibility in changing their online environment. She writes unequivocally:

  “Thinking of your users less like dumb test cases and more like real people [...]

  Users Gain Freedom in a Designer Keeping Control