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"If you’re willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being an artist."

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:33:59 -0400

“If you’re willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being an artist.”

- Seth Godin, adding to other famous definitions of art, at Brooklyn Beta. (via explore-blog)

The Flat Design Era

Wed, 26 Sep 2012 12:55:08 -0400

layervault:

When LayerVault 2 launched earlier this spring, we believed that we were taking a risk by pursuing an entirely flat interface.

Well-loved products on the web share a similar design aesthetic, with roughly the same kinds of bevels, inset shadows, and drop shadows. For designers, achieving this level of “lickable” interface is a point of pride. For us, and for a minority of UI designers out there, it feels wrong.

We certainly didn’t invent the flat style but arriving at it was a violent process. We tore through hundreds of revisions (we have the LayerVault timelines to prove it) to potential interfaces before arriving at the answer that now makes us say “of course.” The desk at LayerVault’s original headquarters (my Manhattan apartment) still has the battle scars from objects being slammed down in anger. At one point, while working on a mockup, a MacBook was slammed shut so hard it was nearly unhinged.

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Dribbble Blog: Dribbble's Position on Spec Work

Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:59:40 -0400

Dribbble Blog: Dribbble's Position on Spec Work:

dribbble:

Well, we don’t like it at all.

But first, what is spec work? From the NO!SPEC website:

“‘Spec’ has become the short form for any work done on a speculative basis. In other words, any requested work for which a fair and reasonable fee has not been agreed upon, preferably in writing.”

In a…

WCNYC: Brief Recap

Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:04:38 -0400

This past weekend, Kelly and I attended WordCamp NYC at Baruch College. It was my second WCNYC and overall, pretty fantastic. While the building we were in was very confusing, I was eventually able to find all of the rooms I wanted to go to sessions in. All the sessions I attended started and ended pretty much on time, which was a big change from the last WCNYC.

There were a ton of sessions this year (over 12 tracks on Saturday) and a lot of really great design & front-end dev sessions I could attend. I especially enjoyed Jeremy Clarke’s session on DRY CSS and Sarah Winnem’s session on WP Template Hierarchy. There were a bunch of presentations I wanted to catch, but overlapped with other sessions I wanted to attend.

I also spoke Saturday morning about Designer-Developer Communication. You can find my slides here.

I met a lot of great people at the Speaker/Sponsor party Friday evening, and then again Saturday during the After Party. WP parties are definitely some of the best parties. I also got a chance to hand out a lot of my new business cards, which I’ll eventually be taking pictures of and posting up here.

I had hoped to spend a lot of Sunday in the hacking room, trying to get involved in core contribution, but a lot of the attending core contributors ended up speaking on Sunday, so the room was mostly Codex editing and documentation. (We still met a few great people for the short time we were in there.) We watched a few of the Core presentations and the Q+A (which was both informative and highly entertaining) before the long trip back to MA.

Overall, WCNYC was a complete blast and I’m really glad that we attended. Can’t wait for the next one!

Generic Design Blog Title

"If you’re willing to do something that might not work, you’re closer to being an artist."

The Flat Design Era

Dribbble Blog: Dribbble's Position on Spec Work

WCNYC: Brief Recap

WordCamp NYC!

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