The Website of UX Designer Matthew Stephens

5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted | Cracked.com.

As a fan of using psychology to influence behavior online, I found this article highly interesting. It discusses all the different ways in which current video game developers are “hooking” players into playing their subscription-based games and neglecting their real lives. It’s both funny and frightening at the same time.

mikecrittenden’s priss at master – GitHub.

This is a really slick CSS file that takes your existing page and makes it print out nice and clean. If you are like me, setting up your print.css is the very last thing you do and you dread spending time on it. This makes it alot easier and quicker, cutting down dev time by atleast 2 or 3x. Check it out and let me know what you think.

WordPress Theme Development Checklist Tool | wplover.

This is an awesome checklist for anyone who develops WordPress Themes.

Flexible Google Maps jQuery Plugin: gMap.

gMap is a lightweight (2kb) jQuery plugin for easily integrating Google Maps into any website.

It can embed a map with a tiny function like:

$("#map").gMap();

and can be customized further with settings like:

• latitude/longitude
• default zoom level
• markers, their positions, info to display as a pop-up, custom marker images
• mapping controls on/off
• & more..