Even if you've never watched an episode of The Joy of Painting, there's a good chance you're familiar with artist Bob Ross, with his trademark afro and "happy little trees". But if you've seen his show, then you'll know that another trademark was his choice of paints. Bob Ross always used the same 13 paints,| Thomas Park | On web development, interface design, user research, and all th...
Since May, our research group has been developing a new tool called Snowball. As with our other tools, the purpose of Snowball is to empower people from all sorts of backgrounds to express and create — tell their stories — on the web. We chose to implement Snowball as a WordPress plugin because WordPress users represent| Thomas Park
It's a great time to learn to code. It seems as long as there's been the web, there's been text tutorials on coding. But now we're seeing the rise of lecture videos (see iTunes U), massive open online courses (see Coursera), and interactive tutorials (see Codecademy). I've sampled them all, but what's hooked me lately| Thomas Park
