Recent Links: February 06 to February 13

A sandbox for collecting search examples, patterns, and anti-patterns.

The archives of the Rotman Magazine, a very useful publication for anyone involved in managing design.

The permanent home for Eric Meyer’s CSS reset tools.

“The reset styles given here are intentionally very generic. There isn’t any default color or background set for the body element, for example. I don’t particularly recommend that you just use this in its unaltered state in your own projects. It should be tweaked, edited, extended, and otherwise tuned to match your specific reset baseline. Fill in your preferred colors for the page, links, and so on.

“In other words, this is a starting point, not a self-contained black box of no-touchiness. “

This fantastic lorem ipsum generator helps create dummy text, but their claim to fame is that you can choose different example texts. I used to use sports stories from ESPN, but why do that when you can use Kafka?

“My goal is to help the beginners learn different techniques [for Adobe Illustrator] that have helped me in my graphic design/illustration career.”

“My goal in all of this is to prove the point that design patterns are nice, but innovation for the sake of improving contextual experience is better. This site is also about demonstrating the idea that not only is it our job to give users what they expect and think they want, but more importantly it is to give them what they need and might not be able to express. I think some of the examples I showcase here do that exceptionally well.”

A tool that suggests things to cook based off of of what you are craving