On the characteristic lack of usability in open source projects, and why. "The distributed, collaborative nature of open source software works for developer-level software, but works against user-level software. Imagine a motion picture produced like a large open source project. Different scenes written and directed by different people, spread across the world. Editing decisions forged by group consensus on mailing lists. The result would be unfocused, incoherent, and unenjoyable."

Interesting. "Patt can work on his colors and alignment, and hopefully please his user base with a helpful tool. Meanwhile the rest of us would be wise to work on the quality and value of our criticism."

In case I end up wanting to make Firefox 3 look more look like Safari.

An excellent resource for wireframing.

Panic's graphic designer worked out a new design for the Coda toolbar that required the team to write a custom UI widget. Going the extra mile inspired Apple to do the same for Leopard.