Category Archives: Design

Making the most of hashtags

A couple of days ago a new site called Hashtags.org was launched by Cody Marx Bailey and Aaron Farnham, two ambitious college students folks from Bryan & College Station, Texas.
I wanted to take a moment to comment on its arrival and also suggest a slight modification to the purpose and use of hashtags, now that [...]

WP-Imagefit proportionally resizes images to fit your blog template

I’m happy to announce the release of my second ever WordPress plugin called WP-Imagefit. (My first, which I’ve neglected for sometime, is called WP-Microformatted-Blogroll).
WP-Imagefit is extremely simple and serves one purpose: to get images in blog posts to fit inside the columns that contain them. In fact, this plugin is used on this blog, so [...]

Coverflow for People

Ever since Apple bought Coverflow, I thought that it would make an awesome interface for browsing people. In fact, I had previously designed “people in the browser” for Flock to look something like this in the early days:

Of course, at the time, the design required a few things that we still lack, namely: 1) bigger [...]