Juliette/SF

This blog uses a color scheme that takes less energy to display on a CRT monitor than a standard page with a white background. Many great discussions on accessibility (color blindness, etc.) are found in the comments.
(Found on salon.com.

The Boston Globe’s team created a great interactive view of the Boston Marathon course.

(Tomorrow’s marathon is going to be grim, with 50 mph winds and heavy rain.)

“Help” is a pretty unhelpful navigation label. What’s even less helpful is if instead of saying “help” you say “H” and then put “help” in tiny letters underneath.

Now, the instructional designer for this online course needs to explain that you need to click “H” to get to “help” which is where you’ll learn “how to […]

Hillary sent this “simple picture of how darn rainy it is in Seattle.” I love the elegance of the design. (In Boston we’ve moved from snow to sleet to pouring rain. Progress…)