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Dashboard Comics 001: Metaphor (WPLover)
Interesting critique of the "speech bubble" treatment in the dashboard. I've always thought it's an effective way to highlight something happening in a hidden part of the interface — look over here! I have x things to show you! — but the comic is right, the metaphor is awkward.
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Tonight we’re singing Beethoven’s Mass in C, which is one of those undeservedly underperformed works — at least, compared to the rest of the Beethoven corpus. Compared to the average early English sacred work, it’s practically ubiquitous.
It’s an interesting setting of the work for an interesting time. Beethoven wrote the work in 1807, and it’s [...]

There’s a cute comic up at WPLover that highlights an interesting UI trend: the rise of the speech bubble. If you don’t have a WordPress blog, you may never have seen this UI, but it’s pretty much as the comic strip shows it. In the dashboard UI, there are a series of tabs for common [...]