mattbalara.com

is where Matt Balara writes about interfaces, design & doing things better.
Matt also collects net-junk like anyone else.

• New Stuff

  • Posting Mobile
  • Frank Chimero on Design
  • The Walled Garden Awards
  • What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Vinay Venkatraman
  • Me & /message
  • What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Julian Bleecker

• Discussion

  • Matt Balara on Frank Chimero on Design
  • User Integration richtig gemacht on Invasion of the Feed Readers
  • Moses Mehraban on What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Andy Budd
  • Vladislav Chernyshov on The Walled Garden Awards
  • maurice on The Walled Garden Awards
  • Matt Balara on What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Andy Budd
  • Clive K. Lavery on What’s Design Mean to You? Interview with Andy Budd
  • Thomas Jacob on Invasion of the Feed Readers
  • Matt Balara on Mickey’s 10 Commandments
  • Mick Liubinskas on Mickey’s 10 Commandments

• del.icio.us

  • Cooler Business Cards
    Been thinking about my own cards, and Inspiredology has the best collection of original, well-designed cards I've seen anywhere. And their name's pretty cool, too.
  • Tiled Backgrounds Designer
    As you can see from my site, I love wallpapery tiled backgrounds. Here's a tool to help design them.
  • Type is Art
    Build something beautiful out of pieces of typography. I could play for hours with this thing. Also a nice type education.
  • Dr. Horrible
    Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy, is sick of the writer's strike and has taken matters into his own hands. Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog is a musical super-villain mini-series epic, released free on the interwebz and for $1.99 an episode on iTunes.
  • "Gorilla" Usability Testing
    Silverback, Clearleft's user testing app, has entered beta and Garrett Dimon gives us a comprehensive review of it.

mattbalara.com is where Matt Balara writes about interfaces, design & doing things better.
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