July 2008
19 posts
Pattern Tap →
Very cool site for UI design patterns - all social’d up for those who can’t live without it.
WatchSilverback is finally available.
10 of The Most Racist Toys Ever Made
Ever since reaching an age where I was attuned to such things, listening to my grandparents’ generation talk about “colored folks” has made me cringe with equal parts confusion, fear, amusement, and embarrassment. With toys like this, it’s no wonder their racist beliefs were so common.
Making crisp text underlines in Photoshop
Maybe this is common knowledge, but I just learned that you can tweak blurry, anti-aliased underlined text in Photoshop with this trick (from Doug Bowman in a comment in this post):
Set your type, underline it. Then, if the underline isn’t crisp, invoke the Free Transform tool (under the Edit menu or Command-T on a Mac). If you zoom in a bit (400 or 500%), you can use the up/down arrow keys to...
We're all psycho!
Rands has an interesting post on superstitions and strange, unexplainable behaviors that people do. At the end of the post is a list of things other people contributed and I’m somewhat disturbed by how many I totally agree with (but definitely not the putting pants on both legs at the same time one!).
“Of course it’s real, it’s on YouTube.”
– My seven year old son to his five year old sister.
WatchInteresting interview with Phil Clevenger, the Adobe Lightroom UI designer (and former designer of the crazy Kai/MetaCreations tools).
Pencil Project →
A Gecko-powered, open source, cross-platform GUI prototyping tool. Not quite an OmniGraffle killer, but it looks like it could be decent for quick sketches.
Fox "News" loves it some Photoshop →
Classy.
“Why is the Kindle promo on the Amazon.com front page an image designed to look...”
