February 2008
24 posts
Ohio State's Design Program →
A nice local piece on the strong OSU design program. If I were starting over, I’d love to try my hand at industrial design.
WatchCool video tour of skinnyCorp (parent company of Threadless).
New Site Launch - Concentric Studio
I just finished up a new site for Concentric Studio this week. Concentric is a design consultancy run by Columbus local Glen LaFortune and his partner Sumin Chou in New York. Glen and Sumin have some heavyweights on their client list (CNNMoney, Fortune, etc.), but hadn’t had time to devote to their own site until recently.
I can’t take credit for the great design on this one -...
Flickr-style Multi-file Uploader
YUI 2.5.0 was just released and the one thing that really caught my eye was the Uploader control. This is supposedly the same code that powers the very slick Flickr uploader.
Don’t miss the great yuiblog.com post about the new stuff.
New Site Launch - Shortcut
Shortcut is another project that’s been rolled out since the beginning of the year. I once again teamed up with the Ruby ninjas at EdgeCase and I think the end result is fantastic.
I donned my logo designer beret and created the logo based on the client’s concept. I did all of the visual and UI design, including some fun customizations to the Google Maps piece. The primary...
Yahoo and Microsoft, Like Oil and Water
This Times piece discusses the first thing I thought of when I heard the Yahoo-MS news a couple weeks ago - that being the philosophical technology differences. The couple of acquired properties that MS ported supposedly were a nightmare to port to their platform and there’s just no way they could rewrite all of Yahoo’s systems. Would they be able to stomach running Java and PHP on...
“When users can’t figure out how to use your app, that’s the ultimate...”
– Amen. Quote by Jeff Atwood
RIP: Yahoo! Design closed down →
Not surprising I suppose, but a big bummer nonetheless.
Videos of Interaction 08 presentations now online →
flight404's Processing code →
Robert Hodgins (aka. flight404) is posting some Processing source code to help less talented sketchers (read: pretty much everyone). Go learn from the best.
Yahoo! AS3 Maps API →
Should make for a nice addition to your mapping toolbox.
How many employees does Google have? →
Be patient - takes a few moments to load.
FancyZoom 1.0 →
Cabel Sasser has released a very slick image zooming library. Similar to Lightbox, but sexier :-)
Dean Edwards Updates IE7.js
If you aren’t familar with Dean Edward’s IE7 project, you should definitely check it out. It’s a Javascript library that can be dropped in unobtrusively and makes most of IE6’s quirks go away. Use PNGs with alpha transparency, CSS selectors like adjacency and parent/child, :first-child, :last-child, :before, :after, as well as positioning fixes and min/max-height...
WatchThis is somehow incredibly beautiful.
WatchI watched the first couple of these Lost “Missing Pieces” videos a while back, but found them pretty lame. Until this one that is.
Design Couldn't Save Yahoo
Although it sounds like a postmortem, Khoi Vinh has an interesting post about good design not being enough to help Yahoo. You can’t pick up a current business magazine these days without a couple of major pieces on the importance of solid design visionaries and practices (with which I’m usually in agreement with). With Yahoo’s mostly superior attention to design, why are they...
De-Dotting Links in Firefox
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just came across this tip this week. You can get rid of those annoying dotted borders around links in Firefox…
… just by adding this rule to your stylesheet:
a:focus, a:active {
outline: none;
}