A lot of times when we’re bidding on new work (e.g., responding to a RFP) there’s a question that lingers in the back of our minds: Should we do pre-emptive design compositions as part of our pitch? The answer is almost always* “no” but the concern is born of …
blogger Viget | Advance
A lot of times when we’re bidding on new work (e.g., responding to a RFP) there’s a question that lingers in the back of our minds: Should we do pre-emptive design compositions as part of our pitch? The answer is almost always* “no” but the concern is born of …
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Written by: Richard Gunther & Andy Powell There has been a lot of talk in the industry these past few weeks about the challenges and benefits of managing resources who work from home. In this decade it’s surprising to hear of tech companies requiring co-location by decree as …
blogger Universal Mind
The latest Dart SDK now provides a cohesive API for asynchronous programming. Some of the new or improved classes in this release include Stream , a sequence of asynchronous events, and Future , a single asynchronous result. The Stream class is new and delivers on a common developer request for …
blogger Chromium
Most people that know me know that I can't say enough about process. In this presentation at Devoxx 2012, I tried to change that. If the embed below isn't working for you, you can watch the talk on the parleys.com site .
blogger Chet Haase
Part 1: Build Environment Part 2: Google's APIs and RequireJS Part 3: Authenticating with OAuth2 Part 4: Backbone.sync Part 5: List Views Part 6: Creating Lists Part 7: Editing Lists Part 8: Deleting Lists Part 9: Tasks Part 10: Oh No Not More Tasks Part 11: Spies, Stubs, and Mocks Part 12: …
blogger Alex Young
New paper-based cleverness: Holy crap: ?akir Gökçeba? turns toilet paper into elegant sculptures (really!). Lucas Simões creates rich, intricately layered paper cut portraits. Philippe Pétremant “collages together paper money from all around the world to form the faces of different …
blogger John Nack
A lot of times when we’re bidding on new work (e.g., responding to a RFP) there’s a question that lingers in the back of our minds: Should we do pre-emptive design compositions as part of our pitch? The answer is almost always* “no” but the concern is born of …
blogger Viget | Advance
A lot of times when we’re bidding on new work (e.g., responding to a RFP) there’s a question that lingers in the back of our minds: Should we do pre-emptive design compositions as part of our pitch? The answer is almost always* “no” but the concern is born of …
blogger Viget | Engage
C’mon, haven’t you always wanted to use rock fingers to control your stereo? I’m kinda skeptical about the MYO armband getting widespread, but the video does suggest a series of fun mishaps (chicken-slicing gone wrong; army robot flailing; and “You have died of …
blogger John Nack
eMusic is an excellent, long-standing digital music store and one I've been a member of for years, but to say they aren't friendly to GNU/Linux would be putting it mildly. They used to have an official (in permanent beta, but still) download manager but they've since done away with it so there …
blogger Matt Woodward
Begone, hands! New technology out of Hong Kong promises to: allow animators to perform and capture motions continuously instead of breaking them into small increments… More importantly, it permits direct hand manipulation without resorting to rigs, achieving more natural object control for …
blogger John Nack
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Node 0.9.11 Node 0.9.11 was released last week, which has more changes for the new streams API. The _read method no longer takes a callback, which means your current _read methods need to be updated to call push() …
blogger Alex Young
Yesterday I published the CSS2 and Backgrounds & Borders mobile tables. CSS2 is the table that contains all properties that were never redefined in any CSS3 module. It includes such vital properties as display , position , and overflow . Backgrounds & Borders, despite the name, is mostly …
blogger Peter-Paul Koch
Really nice set of user interface elements from the folks at Design Modo. This style is hitting a real design nerve right now. I like how they went the extra mile and made all the components actually work (e.g. sliders and radio buttons and whathaveyou). The JavaScript is a bit hodge-podge …
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Reminders about what keys to press to get curly quotes and accented characters by Jessica Hische. I'm a major offender (SEE?!). I should be writing in Markdown which automatically fixes it. Direct Link to Article — Permalink … Quotes & Accents is a post from CSS-Tricks
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SVG is an image format for vector graphics. It literally means Scalable Vector Graphics . Basically, what you work with in Adobe Illustrator. You can use SVG on the web pretty easily, but there is plenty you should know. Why use SVG at all?
Small file sizes that compress well Scales to any size …
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Today’s Chrome Beta for Android update brings your saved passwords and autofill entries from your desktop to your phone and tablet. This release also introduces an experimental data compression feature that will yield substantial bandwidth savings. This feature is powered by a connection to a …
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One of the reasons why I love our industry is because everything is shared. Code, designs, projects, tips and tricks -- there are no secrets, it seems -- except when it comes to sales. Joe Rinaldi from Happy Cog wrote a great blog post on how sales is about the only topic in the development and …
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One of the reasons why I love our industry is because everything is shared. Code, designs, projects, tips and tricks -- there are no secrets, it seems -- except when it comes to sales. Joe Rinaldi from Happy Cog wrote a great blog post on how sales is about the only topic in the development and …
blogger Viget | Advance
Did you know you can put multiple strokes on a layer in CS6? Julieanne Kost provides a quick tour of the neat things you can do with layer groups these days.
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In this brief but interesting video, 42-year-old Canadian industrial designer Karim Antoine Habib pays homage to design history & talks about what inspires him. Details: I love that he drives a vintage 2002, though in his shoes I’d try for a 3.0 CS. For a guy who cares so much about …
blogger John Nack
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jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 is out, which has fixes for most of the major parts of the framework. This version also includes a Grunt build script, so you can build custom versions of jQuery more …
blogger Alex Young
Via Sally Cox: Join us at the San Jose Tech Museum and Adobe San Jose for CreateNOW, an Adobe Camp full of hands-on and lecture-style sessions. This event is geared toward photography, video, graphic design. Featured speakers are Colin Smith, Jeff Foster, Chana Messer, and Sally Cox. Our keynote …
blogger John Nack
Tristan Stoch of Cineastas created this beautifully shot profile of athlete-turned-creator Mike Friton: Mike Friton is a freelance shoemaker, weaver, paper sculptor and innovator with over 30 years of experience at Nike. His innovations are responsible for many elements of athletic footwear that …
blogger John Nack
You need a mobile strategy for your site. You have to pick Responsive Design or a dedicated mobile site, right? Maybe not. Maybe you can mix and match a variety of strategies. Me and the team are working hard on CodePen every day. But we're a team of three. Our mobile strategy is to chip away at …
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Specifically, the Saturday Night Live crew that makes Digital Shorts, and the folks behind Cartoon Network’s Annoying Orange. The SNL team has ridiculously tight deadlines, even re-cutting shorts between dress rehearsal & the live show. “We don’t ever have time to see a …
blogger John Nack
Layer Layer (GitHub: lovebear / layer , License: BSD , npm: layer ) by “lovebear” is a module for creating proxies without changing existing code. Given a function, it can augment it with another function that will run first. The returned values from the new function will be …
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Pluto Sans is beautiful!
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Magallanes Family, a contemporary neo-humanist sans serif font with true italics & alternate glyphs. Love the 'a'.
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