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  • Siiimple

    Cone Trees is featured at the popular minimalist website design gallery Siiimple.

  • GOUW

    Cone Trees is featured in the preview links section of Graphic Orgasm Ultimate Web Portal (GOUW).

  • WaSP Interact

    My post, ‘Understanding Accessibility- Videos of users using Assistive Technology’ is included in the WaSP (The Web Standards Project) InterAct Accessibility Resources section.

  • Jared Spool on how to Design for Branding

    Jared Spool discusses how UIE’s usability research has uncovered some fascinating truths about how people perceive brands on the internet. Their research shows that traditional branding techniques are not the most effective way to strengthen a brand on the internet. In fact, those tried-and-true methods can actually hurt your brand, if implemented poorly. You’ll find…

  • Don Norman on the three ways that good design makes you happy

    Don Norman talks about visceral, behavioral, and reflective design. About Don A. Norman Don Norman is the author of the classic The Design of Everyday Things, Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things and The Design of Future Things: Author of The Design of Everyday Things. A PhD in Psychology, he is the…

  • Business Exchange

    My article, ‘Tips for effective DIY Participant Recruitment for Usability Testing’, is pointed to by Business Week’s Business Exchange.

  • Cool Home Pages

    Cone Trees is featured in the extremely popular (and one of the original website design galleries) Cool Home Pages.

  • Pranav Mistry’s “Sixth Sense”, game-changing wearable technology- a talk by Patties Maes

    “Sixth Sense” is spearheaded by Pranav Mistry at MIT. It’s a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for a profound, data-rich interaction with our environment. Imagine Minority Report. About Pranav Mistry Pranav Mistry is a PhD student in the Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Lab. He got his master and bachelor…

  • Ajax Finder

    Cone Trees is featured in the website gallery section of Ajax Finder.

  • Solution to query_posts(‘orderby=rand’) not working in WordPress

    I had been wondering for a few months by now; why was it that I was able to display random posts in my downloads widget on my local server but not on the live site? I was using <?php query_posts(‘orderby=rand’); ?> to do the job. The downloads widget on my website was supposed to display…