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Is the future of UE about to be templatized? Permanent link to this post

Probably not, but the folks at Adaptive Path have done some excellent work pulling together a number of segmented best practices that should help improve the information architecture and usability of analogous sites that make use of them.

"Product managers get important guidance on new challenges like measuring ROI. Information architects and other designers get affordable insights from recognized industry leaders. With Adaptive Path Reports you get today's best practices and proven solutions refined over years of experience." Nifty.

Dithered releases JavaScript libraries Permanent link to this post

Chris over at dithered has released his collection of scripts under a Creative Commons License. All of the scripts degrade gracefully in older browsers (unless they say otherwise) and I'd guess that one or more of them will save you a good deal of time the next time you're in need some scripting magic.

PHP coding guidelines Permanent link to this post

Anyone that has worked with me over the years (or has been caught in the line of fire) knows that I'm a standards junkie. If it were up to me, *everything* would have standards. Unfortunately, *everything* doesn't, but Evolt has a fairly comprehensive set of PHP coding guidelines that I won't hesitate to apply to my next PHP endeavor.

Acid trip Permanent link to this post

An interesting series of drawings performed by an artist under the influence of LSD as part of a study funded by the US government back in the 50's. "I can feel my knees now". Can you?

Web design practices Permanent link to this post

Heidi Adkisson's University of Washington masters thesis has resulted in Web Design Practices, a web site chock full of web design-related user research. "Web Design Practices is a site devoted to helping designers understand what design practices are currently in use on the Web - and aims to gather research about the usability of commonly-employed design practices." Good stuff.