Firefox Plugins for Web Design & Development

Ah, Firefox. You really have changed how I design and develop for the web. It’s been about 10 months since I’ve been working with you almost exclusively. Sure I occasionally have to associate with those browsers from Redmond and Cupertino but you always welcome me back with open arms and without judgment.
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On Prototypes

It’s been a busy week. On Tuesday I finished building a prototype that represents the initial phase of a fairly elaborate software product. I had spent the previous month: researching, designing task flows & wireframes, drawing user experience storyboards, and putting all of these design artifacts together into a requirements document.
After reviewing the [...]

Ants

Nature is amazing. Look what happens when you fill an Ant colony with ten tons of concrete (besides decimating everything inside):

Also, when you do the same with 1200 degree hot aluminum you get similar, yet shinier, results:

Like I said, nature is amazing. I don’t think we take enough time to look at things like [...]

Notable links and a video

While I don’t want to turn this into a link blog, I can’t help but share a few since I’m busy working on something else:
My friend Jeremy Cowart now has a blog. He’s literally traveling the world as part of the photography team for Passion World Tour. It will be fun to see [...]

A few links and quotes

Links:
GridFox is a FireFox plugin that renders a transparent grid over a web page. Those designers/developers using grid-based layouts or any of the css grid frameworks might find this useful.
Beta preview of Silverback (a new usability testing application). Silverback takes a guerilla approach to testing software applications and is being developed by the [...]