With over 2143 players, Dribbble is populated by world’s most talented designers and I am sure most of them are using:

1. Acrobat Reader 8 or greater
2. Adobe Creative Suite CS3 or greater
3. Mac OS X Leopard or at-least Windows Vista

Now according to Richard Rutter’s font-matrix, Myriad Pro is bundled with Acrobat 7 and Adobe Creative Suite CS3 whereas Segoe UI comes with Mac OS X Leopard and Windows Vista. Also Acrobat Reader 8 comes with Myriad Pro and Minion. Since Myriad Pro and Segoe UI are so common on designers’ systems why not use them to enhance the font-stack of Dribbble.

font-family:
"Myriad Pro", "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, sans-serif;

Here is the snapshot of my dribbble page with Myriad Pro as primary font.

References:

• Font Matrix by Richard Rutter
• Revised Font Stack
• Acrobat 8 comes with Minion and Myriad Pro

Jeff wrote:

In my experience, I rarely want to serve up the exact same HTML to mobile users that I do to desktop users. That’s not to say it never happens. For example, a blog or simple news site may be a case where mobile users really are looking for the same thing that desktop users are — perhaps the same HTML with a screen-specific layout will work great. But, by and large, mobile users have different goals, and that necessitates different HTML.

Since users have different goals in different contexts (desktop and mobile), they need to be served with different content. Hence, Context precedes Content.

More on the subject:

• CSS Media Query for Mobile is Fool’s Gold
• More on CSS Media Queries for Mobile

For practicing User Experience Designers, one of the most important laws isn’t Fitts’s Law, which helps us understand how to design interactive elements. Nor is it Hick’s Law, which describes how long people take to make decisions.

It’s Sturgeon’s Law, which tells us that 99% of everything is crap. It’s easy to produce a poor quality result—anyone without the critical skills is capable of it and there are a ton of those people floating around.

— Read complete article at UIE.com

HTML5 Live

John Allsopp is running this live course by Sitepoint which includes 2 weeks of live classes, hands on exercise, live Q&A sessions plus dedicated private forum. Seems very promising package.

HTML5 with ThinkVitamin

Last month, Carsonified came up with great video tutorial library covering all sorts of topics for web designers and developers. I opted in for HTML5, CSS3, design, UX and jQuery . With over 100 videos till now and 2 videos are added everyday, there is lots of interesting and valuable stuff to catch up with.

HTML5 for Web Designers

Nice folks at Happy Cog finally published their first book under A Book Apart and it is right on the money. Written by Jeremy Keith and beautifully designed by Jason Santa Maria, it covers huge 900 page specifications of HTML5 briefly (in just 85 pages) and it’s easy to understand. I’m really thankful to Jeffery Zeldman and crew  for shipping it the most remote web designer of the world.

Consumers’ impulse to punish bad service—at least more readily than to reward delightful service—plays out dramatically in both phone-based and self-service interactions, which are most companies’ largest customer service channels. In those settings, our research shows, loyalty has a lot more to do with how well companies deliver on their basic, even plain-vanilla promises than on how dazzling the service experience might be.

So stop trying to delight your customers and think about making your product solve their problems.

• Unintentional design happens when you were paying attention to something else (like the system or process). It works when our users will put up with whatever we give them; we don’t care about support costs or the pain from frustration.
• Self-design works well when there are enough people like you to use your product, you don’t mind excluding others, and you use your product everyday like your users do.
• Genius design When we’ve previously learned what users need. Works when we already know user’s knowledge, previous experiences, and behavior of people; we are solving the same design problems repeatedly.
• Activity-focused design starts with the activities people need to do. Works when we can identify users and their activities; we need to go beyond our own previous experiences; innovations can come from removing complexity.
• Experience-focused design: There’s a difference between being usable and having a good experience. Experience is the gaps between the activities. Works great when we want to improve our users’ complete experiences, in between the specific activities; we can be pro-active about the designs; game-changing innovations are the top priority.

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#nav { background:url("images/logo.jpg") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent; ... }

That’s really weird! And Mr. Lupetti should notice that. I also wrote about Woorkup’s design last year.

Existing Woorkup.com header

Revised Woorkup.com header using Firebug

If John Boardley at I Love Typography specified Georgia before Cambria then I’m sure that was no accident. If a user has both Cambria and Georgia on their system then he wants them to see his site in Georgia. On the odd chance that the user has Cambria but not Georgia he’d prefer them to see it in Cambria than an anonymous sans-serif font that he has less control over.

After reading the following from the Six Revision’s recent article:

According to Web designer Amrinder Sandhu’s February 2010 article on A Way Back, the typography site I Love Typography had Cambria in its font stack, behind Georgia, which means that with Georgia’s near-99% market penetration among Windows users, virtually all of them would see it in Georgia, not Cambria. However, a check in May 2010 shows Cambria no longer in the ILT font stack.

I was convinced that some intelligent people are really giving a thought to what I have written.

I can see how minimalism can have a clear meaning in art, where the artist is free to create their own rules and ideas. Minimalism is a style that can be characterized by that use of simple, basic forms and white space. But when we apply this term to everyday design, the term begins to lose meaning. Clear, clean and simple design isn’t minimalist. It’s just good, clear design.

And about simplicity, he says:

Simplicity isn’t a design trend, it’s an attribute of good design.

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