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Handy clipboard-able stubs for lists, paragraphs, forms, etc…. Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

Ever since I launched Huffduffer , one of the features that really caught people’s attention was the sign up form . I have to admit, I didn’t really think it was that revolutionary an idea. All I was trying to do was make the sign-up process a little friendlier and if web standards have taught us anything, it’s that there’s nothing inherent in the presentation of any element, much less forms. So I made the form more conversational and less blocky and rigid. Well, it turns out that people love it. I’ve received bucketloads of Twitter messages and emails from people telling me how much they enjoyed the sign-up process. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

After just a couple weeks of testing, I gave up on the Canon HG10 w/35mm for shooting HD video. Not only was the quality not stellar, but it’s a hack that’s cumbersome and really difficult to work with. Following an enormous amount of deliberation and questioning if so many dollar signs were really worth it, I bit the bullet and sprung for a Canon EOS 7D and some quality lenses. No mistaking, this thing shoots incredible photos and equally impressive 1080p HD video. I still have plenty to learn about the camera and photography in general, but so far I’m really pleased with it… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

One of the things you discover as a speaker and, especially, a conference organizer is this: Keynote generates really frickin’ enormous PDFs. Seriously. Much like Miles O’Keefe, they’re huge . We had one speaker last year whose lovingly crafted and beautifully designed 151-slide deck resulted in a 175MB PDF. Now, hard drives and bandwidth may be cheap, but when you have four hundred plus attendees all trying to download the same 175MB PDF at the same time, the venue’s conference manager will drop by to find out what the bleeding eyestalks your attendees are doing and why it’s taking down the entire outbound pipe. Not to mention the network will grind to a nearly complete halt… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

The winners of Microsoft’s MIX 10K Smart Coding Challenge (for which I was honored to serve as one of the judges ) have been announced, and the Grand Prize has been awarded to… Jimmy D ’s Frog Log . Which is an HTML5/CSS/JS entry. That doesn’t run in Internet Explorer. Yep. Frog Log was my top pick, and obviously did very well with the other judges too, for a good reason: it’s a fun game. It doesn’t play quite the same in Firefox previous to v3.5, as the drag-n-drop doesn’t work. … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

The past These talking machines are going to ruin the artistic development of music in this country. When I was a boy…in front of every house in the summer evenings, you would find young people together singing the songs of the day or old songs. Today you hear these infernal machines going night and day. We will not have a vocal cord left. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Font Aid IV for Haiti: “Coming Together” Font : Veer: In response to the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the Society of Typographic Aficionados issued a call to action to the typographic and design communities to participate in Font Aid IV. The result was Coming Together, an OpenType font that contains over 400 ampersand glyphs designed by participants from around the world. The “ampercross” Veer designed to promote the font is fabulous. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

The Noteput interactive music table : Engadget: Finally we get the chance to literally lay a track down…. Employing a simple camera beneath the surface, the table can tell what notes you’re placing upon it and play them back—individually when you position them or as a group once you hit the big play button. This would be a great teaching tool for beginning music students, among other things. … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

A fascinating post detailing the creation of a consistent visual identity of the BBC ’s online presence. Also, worth reading is the response from Paul Robert Lloyd . The use of big clunky Verdana for headings seems to have been phased out – hurrah! Comment on this … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

A fascinating post detailing the creation of a consistent visual identity of the BBC ’s online presence. Also, worth reading is the response from Paul Robert Lloyd . The use of big clunky Verdana for headings seems to have been phased out – hurrah! Comment on this … Read the rest here

Hicksdesign Go to the source

This just in: I’m leaving Opera. Before I go any further, I need to make this very clear. I’m not leaving because I unhappy working for them, or any such rubbish. Neither did we come to blows over 42 different shades of red. Opera as company, and as individuals, have bent backwards to accommodate my remote working ways, and it’s been nothing but a fruitful and joyous time. … Read the rest here

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This just in: I’m leaving Opera. Before I go any further, I need to make this very clear. I’m not leaving because I unhappy working for them, or any such rubbish. Neither did we come to blows over 42 different shades of red. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Incase testing-friendly packaging : Incase: Our research showed that consumers were opening packages and test-fitting products before making purchases. In most cases, the packages were not correctly returned to the shelves or were somewhat damaged and unsightly, making it difficult to sell these products. The design solution was to create an outer wrap that was easy to slide on and off, offering full access to the product without damaging the package. The sliding action of the wrap was simple and intuitive and did not involve additional flaps or mechanisms that the previous packaging employed. This is brilliant and overdue thinking. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Gizmodo: Detailed review of Windows Phone 7 : Microsoft has literally nothing to lose by completely overhauling Windows Mobile OS—its global market share is paltry, and the UI is nearly unusable for anyone other than the die-hard Windows user. Hence, the unveiling of Windows Phone 7 is impressive news, regardless of whether or not it gains significant market share. It’s proof that Microsoft realizes it’s lagging far behind in OS innovation and is taking dramatic measures to correct its course. … Read the rest here

Snook Go to the source

Logo Design Love is a book written by David Airey that covers the whys and hows of brand identity development. The book is broken down into three parts: The importance of brand identity, the process of design and keep the fires burning which looks at how to find motivation and inspiration. It’s a light 200 pages with readable type and plenty of examples. David Airey aims this book at the aspiring designer by not only covering the design process but also covering the process of project scope and client management in the context of logo design. Logo Design Love hits the mark when it speaks from experience, which it does for most of the book. There’s plenty of real world examples with plenty of input from designers other than just Airey himself… Read the rest here

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Logo Design Love is a book written by David Airey that covers the whys and hows of brand identity development. The book is broken down into three parts: The importance of brand identity, the process of design and keep the fires burning which looks at how to find motivation and inspiration. It’s a light 200 pages with readable type and plenty of examples. David Airey aims this book at the aspiring designer by not only covering the design process but also covering the process of project scope and client management in the context of logo design. Logo Design Love hits the mark when it speaks from experience, which it does for most of the book… Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

It’s been said before that web inspectors—Firebug, Dragonfly, the inspectors in Safari and Chrome, and so forth—are not always entirely accurate. A less charitable characterization is that they lie to us, but that’s not exactly right. The real truth is that web inspectors repeat to us the lies they are told, which are the same lies we can be told to our faces if we ask directly. Here’s how I know this to be so: body {font-size: medium;} Just that. Apply it to a test page … Read the rest here

Eric Meyer Go to the source

It’s been said before that web inspectors—Firebug, Dragonfly, the inspectors in Safari and Chrome, and so forth—are not always entirely accurate. A less charitable characterization is that they lie to us, but that’s not exactly right. The real truth is that web inspectors repeat to us the lies they are told, which are the same lies we can be told to our faces if we ask directly. Here’s how I know this to be so: body {font-size: medium;} Just that. Apply it to a test page . Inspect the body element in any web inspector you care to fire up. … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

TheDieline.com’s Box Bottle Bag : A showcase of the “best of the best from the website.” … Read the rest here

Cameron Moll Go to the source

Brandon Barré’s photographs of amazing living spaces : Simply inspiring. … Read the rest here