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Welcome to the journal and portfolio of Bill C. English, designer of friendly software and attractive websites.

2 weeks ago

2 weeks ago

Jamy Ian Swiss


Magician Jamy Ian Swiss talks about empathy, a critical aspect of UI design and crafting a user experience.

3 weeks ago

3 weeks ago

Cliché

In printing, a cliché was a printing plate cast from movable type. This is also called a stereotype. When letters were set one at a time, it made sense to cast a phrase used repeatedly as a single slug of metal. “Cliché” came to mean such a ready-made phrase. The French word “cliché” comes from the sound made when the matrix is dropped into molten metal to make a printing plate.

— Wikipedia

3 weeks ago

Flaming Lips House

A peek inside the Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne’s house, courtesy of Fitzsimmons Architects.

3 weeks ago

3 weeks ago

1 month ago

1 month ago

Try Out Vimeo’s New HTML5 Player

Try Out Vimeo’s New HTML5 Player

Seems like some are trying out standards-based alternatives to replace Flash for video content.

1 month ago

Conan’s Farewell

All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism — it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.

— Conan O’Brien

2 months ago

Quote by Cormac McCarthy

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That’s heaven. That’s gold and anything else is just a waste of time.

— Cormac McCarthy

3 months ago

Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics

Redesigning the Worst NFL Helmet Graphics

Ken Carbone tries to fix some of the worst helmets in the NFL. The Patriots are at the bottom of the list, where they belong.

4 months ago

The Fun Theory

The Fun Theory

Examples of how designing a fun experience can influence people for the better.

4 months ago

Hungry for Food = Hungry for Words

When we are hungry for food, we follow similar patterns as when we are hungry for information. Similar, infantile patterns. At both times, we fall into a mode of dull impatient demand. We want everything immediately with as little interaction as possible…. when we are hungry for knowledge, we inevitably become mentally passive and use all our energies to receive information. Because that’s how our brain works. And that’s why we blindly return to Google search when looking for data.

— Oliver Reichenstein

4 months ago