My Favorite Sites

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THE DESIGN GEEK: Jim Coudal's favorite sites
Founder of the Chicago-based Coudal Partners, an interactive design firm (but also an excuse for Coudal and friends to pursue other online ventures, such as a high-end CD- and DVD-packaging company)

37Signals.com/svn
Signal vs. Noise, a blog by the successful Chicago software company 37 Signals, focuses on their products and issues of software and Web usability and the latest Web news and goings-on.

Humanized.com/weblog/
The blog of the Chicago interactive and software design firm Humanized. On the blog, they riff on design concepts, sites they love or hate, programming tutorials, and the progress of their projects, such as Songza, a free, online streaming jukebox service.

Coudal.com
His own company site plumbs his staff's interests, from the Museum of Online Museums to their own video documentaries to meditations on design, copywriting, and their live refereed design competitions.

DaringFireball.net
Although it's not based in Chicago, Coudal reads this Mac devotee daily for its smart and funny advice and news on the design nerd's object of holy veneration, the Apple Macintosh.

AListApart.com
Publishes in-depth articles on technical Web design concepts. If you wonder how the newest HTML iteration might affect you or need tricks for resizing text in CSS, this is the site for you.

Illustration: John Kenzie