Link Drop (week 31 of 2012)

I'm trying some new things. The link drop will be an unfiltered list of things I bookmarked during the week, with some minimal notes. Some of these things may make it to parts of the wiki or blog. Here we go with the first one.

• Google Web Fonts Open Sans Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. It was optimized for print, web, and mobile interfaces, and has excellent legibility characteristics in its letterforms.
• Designing with the Mind in Mind: Simple Guide to Understanding User Interface Design Rules (9780123750303): Jeff Johnson: Books Jeff Johnson book on Amazon.
• The Morgan Library & Museum - Current Exhibitions - Josef Albers in America: Painting on Paper Morgan Library show of sixty oil sketches on paper, revealing a private side of Josef Albers's work. These sketches were never exhibited in the artist's lifetime and have rarely been seen after his death.
• No Excuse List "The best place on the web to learn anything, free." Index of free learning sites.
• The illusion of progress lights a fire: The coffee card story The ‘illusory goal progress’ effect shows that our perception of how close we are to achieving something can be easily manipulated by shifting the goal posts.
• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Mousetrap - Keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
• CSSWARP - CSS Text to Path Generator
• The Slow Web – Jack Cheng
• Good design is invisible: an interview with iA's Oliver Reichenstein | The Verge
• Nike 1thology | Gene Lu. Interaction Designer. Welcome.
• UX thesis
• Design case study: iPad to Metro style app