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Dec 1st

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Dec 1st

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Engadget on their recent style guide decisions for dealing with intercapped (iPhone, TiVo, BlackBerry), lowercase (nook, chumby), and all-caps (RAZR, DROID) product names.

Dec 1st

“It could have been shaped like a banana if we’d wanted.”

– Jonathan Ive on the original iPod

Nov 30th

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Kenya Hara On Japanese Aesthetics →

“What makes Japanese design so special? Basically, it’s a matter of simplicity; a particular notion of simplicity, different from what simplicity means in the West. So are things in general better designed in Japan? Well, actually, it’s not that simple…”

Nov 30th

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krislane: Wilson Miner - Design & Build on Vimeo (via Vimeo) The most interesting quote about generalisation vs specialisation in terms of the web – the code is the object – you must balance the process of design and build due to their close relationship. The process does not end in a stage gate process find the fulcrum of the design and development. (around 15-17 mins) Wilson had me at...

Nov 29th

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Nov 27th

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Followup to using Closure with Rails

A couple of weeks ago I asked if anyone had any advice on how to incorporate Google’s Closure compiler into a Rails workflow. I didn’t receive any responses, but many others apparently had the same question because that post was receiving many hits from “google closure rails” type search queries. Anyhoo, the folks at ZURB have built a plugin that looks promising. In a...

Nov 27th

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Nov 25th

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“In 2010 the decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source.”

– The Economist in The World in 2010 issue.

Nov 25th

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Nov 23rd

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Zen Coding →

I might be late to the party on this one, but Zen Coding is a nifty set of plugins that can potentially speed up your HTML and CSS coding drastically. It currently works with TextMate, Coda, Espresso, NetBeans, and a handful of other editors. Check out the screencast for a taste test.

Nov 23rd

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Adobe seeking input on making Photoshop better for... →

Jack Nack has put together a survey to gather feedback from people who use Photoshop for web design. You know all those things that drive you nuts about it? Things like no 9-slice scaling for buttons, inaccurate browser font rendering, inadequate vector tools, etc.? You can go vote on which are most important to you. So, go vote!

Nov 23rd

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Time management: How an MIT postdoc writes 3... →

Nov 23rd

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Nov 16th

6 Things Video Games Can Teach Us About... →

Nov 16th

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A 50 Lines-of-Code JavaScript Animation Framework:... →

Created by JS Ninja Thomas Fuchs

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Google Closure in Rails Development Workflow?

Update: I found a promising Rails plugin for this. I’ve got a couple of projects that I’d be interested in trying out the recently released Closure Tools on. Have any workflow best practices started to surface yet in regards to compiling your app’s Javascript with these tools? The compiler UI is slick in that you can see the results of the compiled code, but I’m...

Nov 9th

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Intentional Complexity?

Why are remotes for cable boxes so cluttered and complicated? Is it so that they amp up the cognitive load for users in hopes that they will be too lazy to learn how to expertly skip commercials, as the author of this post suggests? I don’t buy that since cable companies don’t have any incentive to control how customers view their content. They do, however, have incentive to...

Nov 8th

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