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I was going to tell you who Don Norman is. Instead I think it is better to let you see this small video and let you seek information after that. This is a Ted video from 2003 having Don Norman as the speaker. Enjoy!

Information(data) is the most important reason of existence for the Internet. On our daily web tasks, all we do is interact with information: search, read, write, share etc. But in order to achieve a proper level of interaction, the information should be displayed in a pleasant visual way for the user. This is where design and user interfaces come and help the viewer. In this blog post we will analyze…

Matt Mullenweg is one of the most important Internet personalities. The reason is first of all the fact that Matt is a very intelligent person and the second reason is that WordPress has 283,000,000 references on Google. But he is still the number 2 Matt on the internet behind Matt Harding from Where the hell is Matt.

I am often asked by newcomers or designers wannabes different questions about WordPress. The most common: where can I get that? … or how can I do that? The answer is very simple in most cases – you search for the solution. Although sometimes this approach is misunderstood, there is no better way to learn than to research. This is the best solution but in many cases it takes time….

I really enjoy this type of animations – funny but with a message in it. It is important for a movie to be funny and yet to have a powerful message for the viewers. I can’t tell you what is the message that I’ve got from this one, cause the message can differ from one to another. Enjoy this video Dans la tête, and share me your thoughts. Cheers!

Things are getting serious in the browsers war arena. Apple has just released the latest version of its web browser – Safari 4 Beta. I’ve decided to test this browser and relate my first impressions. In this post, I will review this new application from user experience, user interface and performance perspective. So we will start with the user interface since it is the first thing you will notice.

Reading and writing seem to be simple actions yet they are not. When it comes to web design, these actions are vital for various reasons and they have a higher priority in the web design process. What I’m trying to say is that it is crucial to write code in a good way. That is because any other person that interacts with the code should feel comfortable with it.

In a community we believe that everyone should benefit from common goods. In Graphic Rating’s case, we want to offer you the possibility to display your ads on our site. This is nothing different from other sites some of you will say. The interesting part is that the ads will be displayed for free, without any fees. So, let’s see how you can get a top spot on our site.

Every time you hear the word Mozilla you tend to associate it with Firefox… Mozilla Firefox. It is a normal thing since it is their flagship product. But it is not the only product and it seems like Mozilla wants to extend its line of applications. These days another word was promoted from Mozilla Labs: Bespin.

I really like innovation and great solutions against problems regarding user interface and user experience. Throughout this post I want to highlight some on the most interesting and useful features that help the user to complete a certain task easier and in a pleasant way. These are samples of good user experience and the medium will be the web, although there are some desktop apps and games that can be…

In the next period of time Graphic Rating will develop several AIR applications dedicated to web designers and web developers. Since we want to create something useful and good, we’ve started to crawl the web for the best Adobe Air applications. Some of these are now part of our daily workflow and maybe some will be a part of your workflow too. Anyway, you can think of these apps as…

In many web design projects I tend to have similar initial steps. Because of this behavior and my way of coding, I’ve decided to create a web design framework that will help me gain some time from the overall estimation of a project. Keep in mind that this framework is flexible and you can adapt it to your way of creating websites. At the end of this post you will…

One of the most important communities in the blogosphere regarding CSS and Web Development/Design is CSS Globe. Founded by Alen Grakalic, web standards designer and developer, CSS Globe is the home for good tutorials, news, great community and knowledge sharing. And the reason for this coverage is that CSS Globe has a brand new design with lots of interesting user interface elements.

Now that WordPress is more mature and it has a solid core, some of the plugins from WordPress.org are obsolete. I say this because with this last version, WordPress has many features that were previously found only in plugins. But not all of the plugins are useless now, many are quite important for the community and indispensable for bloggers. Let’s see which plugin made it for Graphic Rating’s 9 Best…

When it comes to the IT world, I have a bad habit and test the latest appearances in the industry. Mainly my testing leans towards the software category. Since I’ve tested most of the operating systems out there Windows, BeOS, Linux, Mac OS, I think it is the perfect time to test and share with you my perspective on Windows 7. Let’s not waste any time and see what Microsoft…