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About the UI design of Wells Fargo ATMs. My decision to open a Wells Fargo account after moving to SF was largely influenced by the experience I had at one of their ATMs, so it’s definitely a good design.

ColourLovers has a new (to me) section collecting tileable patterns. Some gorgeous designs here — just the thing for your wallpaper.

Interview with Jason Spaceman and Mark Farrow about the fantastic packaging they’ve put together for Spiritualized’s albums. They’re one of the few bands where I make sure to buy the “deluxe” CD.

The new UK coinage is wicked cool — the individual coins are part of a larger picture.

The way you code a progress bar will do more to “performance” than tweaking the process it’s measuring. “Humans do not perceive the passage of time in a linear way.”

Varied mix of designs for business cards, plus links to suggestions for what to put on them. Spurred me on to creating something nicer than Moo Cards for when I’m attempting to be “professional”.

Official Microsoft documentation on how to open the Vista packaging. Because it *needs* documentation.

Type designers decode the presidential candidates.

“Please do not use Word Art™” Should make a set of these for code reviews. “Use spaces, not tabs”

“The Jack Principles is the first set of comprehensive guidelines for designing, writing and performing for an interactive conversation.” Great reading if you’re developing software for humans.

Analyzing the design details of the 2008 political campaign logos.

Lovely little design detail on Dopplr — Their “logo” changes colour based upon your usage of the site.

Since the MP3s don’t have any cover-art, Jon Hicks is hosting a “Design your own Radiohead Cover Art” contest. #21 is my favourite so far.

The new Apple keyboards have a delay (at the hardware level) to prevent aCCIDENTAL cAPSlOCK.

How to explain a paradigm shift…

Holy crap, the new US passport design looks like a Colbert Report “let’s overdo it with the eagles and flags” pisstake!

Awesome retro blog design.

The new Google personalised homepage themes are gorgeous. Updating them based upon time and local weather is just ridiculously lovely!

Nothing earth-shattering or new, but food for thought.

Some very clever ideas about visually alerting users to the existence of microformats on a web page, plus some interesting debate in the comments about how much Firefox should visually change the look of a page in the name of “usability”.