The Old New Thing

May 30, 2006 - The Old New Thing

Mellifluous NPR reporter name: Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

May 30, 2006 May 30, 2006 05/30/06
Raymond Chen
I first heard Ofeibea Quist-Arcton when she reported for the BBC. Now she's on NPR (you can listen to her discuss corruption in Nigeria in this recent report), thereby wresting the title of "most mellifluous NPR reporter name" from its previous holder, Sylvia Poggioli. (Sylvia Poggioli's dirty secret: She was born and grew up in the United ...

People are very sensitive to how the icons look

May 30, 2006 May 30, 2006 05/30/06
Raymond Chen
Windows XP shipped with new icons for many common items in the shell, and Windows Vista will have even more and newer icons. One of the things the designers have to be careful about with drawing these icons is to make sure they don't actually look like anything. Let me clarify. The folder icon, for example, is not based on any ...