February 2012
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Feb 28th
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mobivangelist: A (small-ish) Boom.fm update →
mobivangelist: Since we’ve come back from our Christmas break, the Boom.fm dev team has been busy. So we’ve just gone live with another update. This wasn’t a particularly big one in terms of “what users get to see”; it was meant more to set the stage for our upcoming music shop by improving the way artists…
Feb 1st
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January 2012
1 post
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Jan 21st
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November 2011
7 posts
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Why you should move that button 3px to the left →
Designers notice the gap between functional and delightful, and that’s why we obsess over the little details.
Nov 30th
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The Purpose →
We should care more about our craft because we’re granted an opportunity to contribute to the world. We should care more about what we say because each time we speak, there’s someone there to listen. We should care more about our audiences because they are the ones who give our work value. We might think that design work is about you or about me or anyone else who makes it, or maybe about the...
Nov 24th
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“Design is a set of decisions about a product. It’s not an interface or an...”
– Rebekah Cox
Nov 22nd
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12 Steps to Writing Better Web Code →
If you start falling down on any of these steps, fix them first before going back to committing new lines of code. Not following these steps leads to frustration. Frustration leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to shitty projects.
Nov 21st
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An introduction to user experience design →
Great slide deck by @rianvdm covering the basics of UX design.
Nov 20th
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Asynchronous UIs - the future of web user... →
Speed matters; a lot. Or to be precise, perceived speed matters a lot. Speed is a critical and often neglected part of UI design, but it can make a huge difference to user experience, engagement and revenue.
Nov 20th
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“Anyone who slaps a ‘this page is best viewed with Browser X’ label...”
– Tim Berners-Lee in Technology Review, July 1996
Nov 13th
May 2011
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The Adventures of Stephan Gouws at USC →
Theme I did for my buddy Stephan who is visiting USC as a PhD student.
May 2nd
September 2010
1 post
Checking out Tumblr
This site serves only for tinkering with the tumblr service atm. Will be creating some themes in the future. Check back soon ( aka 2011 )
Sep 30th