Gamespot has an article by Mike Verdu (of Electronic Arts LA) where he explains the pitfalls involved in designing the new interface for Tiberium Wars (the new version of the Command & Conquer real time strategy series) and how they were addressed. While targeted at players, it does have some interesting tidbits about the usability […]

How could I have missed that? FlashDevelop has better AS3 support now, including code completion. I’ve already been using AS3 on it for a few days on a personal project of mine, but having that official patch helps. I can’t wait for a more final AS3 support though, as compiling is still a bit confusing […]

I don’t know exactly when that happened – I haven’t really been checking that lately – but I just realized today that my main website is the first result to show up when you do a search for “zeh” on Google. Take that, ZEH Software! Eat it, Norbert Zeh! Try again, Pfau Zeh! In a […]

Graphic designers, assemble! W3C is looking for a new identity for their scalable vector graphics initiative and, honestly, most of the entries submitted so far aren’t exactly up to the standard this project deserves. So get your vector programs going – in the communist open-source spirit, I recommend InkScape – and draw nice polygons for […]

Who would have guessed that Microsoft is going to allow user-made games to run on both the Xbox 360 and the PC? This news’ bomb has been just dropped and it’s bound to change the way independent, hobbyist and amateur game development works: by using C# and Microsoft’s XNA technology (a DirectX of sorts), people […]

Yay Hooray has a long thread on redesigning famous logos in Web 2.0 format. Interesting and funny. The thread has been slightly hijacked by advertisements, and as any other Internet fad it’s bringing the server to its knees, but the logos are still there. Alternatively, you can view them directly through the collection on Flickr. […]

As anyone can see, I have my own internet domain name; and sure enough, my domain is based on my name (zeh.com.br). When deciding on an email address to use on that kind of domains, people usually go for the easy or obvious route – for example, using simple addresses such as me@zeh.com.br or zeh@zeh.com.br. […]

SomethingAwful explains Web 2.0. If you can get the first paragraph, you’re in for a laugh.

Well, actually, it’s not an account by David Candland himself, but sort of — Bungie.net has a new weekly update online, and this one is called User In Yer Face and cover some aspects of the user interface design flow on Bungie, specifically how they’re using Director to prototype the interface before actually coding it […]

Japanese website PingMag has an interview (in english) with everybody’s favorite german type designer, Erik Spiekermann. It’s pretty lengthy and pretty cool – instead of focusing on the obvious (the history of MetaDesign and so on), it goes pretty deep into typography itself. Source: OS X Code (r,s)