Seeing that flyte is a web design company and several of my coworkers are zombie fans, not to mention Halloween is right around the corner, I found W Craig Tomlin’s article about web usability and zombies interesting and entertaining. He argues for approaching web usability like a zombie. If you’re not a web designer or a zombie here’s a brief definition of the two:

Web Usability and User Experience
The ease with which visitors are able to interact with a Web site and the visitors overall experience with the Web site. Web usability and experience is important because of its relationship to marketing metrics.

Zombies
A creature that appears in folklore and popular culture typically as a reanimated corpse or a mindless human being.

Here’s a link to the article. Enjoy

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I recently stumbled over this logo at Logopond.com. Simple and clever, a great logo. Nice work Greg.

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Riceboy Sleeps is a collaboration between Jon Thor Birgisson (Sigur Ros) and Alex Somers (Parachutes). Jónsi and Alex have been making music and exhibiting artwork under the name Riceboy Sleeps since 2003. The two started creating the visual art that would form the basis of their limited edition hardback book, ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ in 2006. They continued making music in the periods between Jónsi’s touring and studio commitments with Sigur Rós, slowly building a body of work that includes the beautiful ambient album and eclectic art exhibit.

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About Riceboy Sleeps

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New Type Drawing Application for the iPhone from Hansol Huh lets you draw with letters on your iPhone! Type a sentence or word, choose a font, choose a background, and draw.

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W.S. Merwin is an American poet who was recently awarded his second Pulitzer Prize for poetry for The Shadow Of Sirius. Merwin has published over 20 books of poetry and won his first Pulitzer Prize in 1971 for The Carrier Of Ladders.

It is March

It is March and black dust falls out of the books

Soon I will be gone

The tall spirit who lodged here has
Left already
On the avenues the colorless thread lies under
Old prices

When you look back there is always the past
Even when it has vanished
But when you look forward
With your dirty knuckles and the wingless
Bird on your shoulder
What can you write

The bitterness is still rising in the old mines
The fist is coming out of the egg
The thermometers out of the mouths of the corpses

At a certain height
The tails of the kites for a moment are
Covered with footsteps

Whatever I have to do has not yet begun 

- W.S. Merwin

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Don’t know your Frutiger from your Baskerville? Take your seats class, let’s review the Periodic Table of Typefaces.

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I’ve just recently discovered LÄRABAR, simple and delicious bars made from a blend of unsweetened fruits, nuts and spices. Each flavor contains only a few ingredients. For instance, their Banana Cookie bar contains just dates, almonds and unsweetened bananas. LÄRABAR is free of: gluten, dairy, soy, corn, added sweeteners, preservatives, fillers and colorings. So simple and so good.

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