Building the Happy Cog Test Lab - Cognition: The blog of web design
Ryan describes the research and process behind putting together a device lab for Happy Cog in Austin. Good stuff, with handy links gathered together at the end.
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Lexadecimal
Hexadecimal colours and their corresponding dictionary definitions. Cute.
Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
An excellent rebuttal by Steven Pinker to Nicholas Carr's usual trolling.
Humanising data: introducing “Chernoff Schools” for Ashdown – Blog – BERG
Matt gets an opportunity to use the Chernoff effect for visualising school data.
Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
"Nikon, the racist camera" (sing it to the tune of Flight of the Concords' "Albi, the racist dragon").
Redesign Mozilla
Follow along as Happy Cog document the process of redesigning the Mozilla website.
OK! Happy Cogaoke — Presented by Happy Cog
This year's SXSW is shaping up to be a lot of fun. Here's "a karaoke competition and party for people who lover the web... and karaoke."
App Shopper: WhatTheFont (Reference)
Like Shazam, but for fonts. Snap a picture of some text on your iPhone and this app will phone home to the WhatTheFont mothership in order to identify it for you.
Change blindness and the role of the grey flicker- 90 Percent of Everything
An interesting look at the way our brains responds to changes in our environment ...with video.
Who Framed George Lakoff? - ChronicleReview.com
A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.
What the F***?
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
Faces in Places
Your brain is hardwired to respond to the shape of a face.
Molt:n Core » Jeremy Keith killed JFK?
Apparently I look like Lee Harvey Oswald and Keanu Reeves. Whoa! Cameron Adams, on the other hand, looks like a bunch of girls (a bunch of hot girls, admittedly).
Happy Cog Studios: About us [People of Happy Cog]
New kids on the block.
UsedWigs Radio Podcast 18 « USEDWIGS RADIO
Podcast interview: Greg Hoy of Happy Cog Philadelphia.
Happy Cog Studios: Work: Dictionary.com
Happy Cog redesigns Dictionary.com and its siblings.
Jason Santa Maria | European Adventure
Happy Cog Philadelphia goes to Ireland.
Card sorting pix
Flickr photo set, AIGA card sorting exercise.
From the Other Side of the Microscope
Participating in a card-sorting exercise for the AIGA redesign.
CUPE > Canadian Union of Public Employees
Designed by Happy Cog.
AdAge.com redesign gets job done
Design review by Jay Small.
Lexico Announces New Online Reference Subscription Service, Dictionary.com Premium
Designing With Web Standards, 2nd Edition
The book that changed how websites are designed is back in a smart new second edition.