After a fulfilling and enlightening day at WordCamp Miami, I can’t help but use one of my favorite expressions: The event lit a fire under my butt. For the generously cheap $30 attendance fee, I was able to accumulate a list full of things I can’t wait to tinker and play with. The brain cogs are turning with full speed and the inspiration is flowing rapidly through my veins.
Pete Bernardo kicked off the day with a fantastic presentation about WordPress plugins.  I, …

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Can you guess what I’m talking about?

Why all the white space in the middle? I can barely read the text in the mail drop-down menu, yet the weather section underneath it is huge.  Let’s be honest, how many people go to yahoo.com to get their local weather?!? Exactly.  I want my e-mail and I want it now.  Why not drop down the mail menu even further to be able to increase the font size? Or get rid of all the …

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Recently the New York Times has been asking its head honchos to take to the mail bag and answer some of their readers most pressing questions in a section called “Talk to the Newsroom.” Executive Editor Bill Keller and head editors from almost every section have taken part in the column, and this week interactive design guru Khoi Vinh is the latest to give us some insight into what the Times does and why they do it.
I could …

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