A recent Vimeo Staff Pick. Damn.
May 8, 2013
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April 30, 2013
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Underscores: a WordPress Starter Theme Generator
Creating a custom WordPress theme can be a bit of a pain. Not with Underscores.me though… Enter a theme name (and some other info, optionally) and hit “generate”. A nice blank theme, including default styling for elements will start downloading in a zip file. Very slick, and a great starting point for building your own custom WordPress theme. You can find out more about the Underscores project in this Themeshaper post: “A 1000-Hour Head Start: Introducing The _s Theme”.
The lineage and continual development process of _s gives you what I like to call a 1000-hour head start. That’s the approximate number of design and development hours you get for free every time you use it in a project. Weeks and weeks of refinement by dozens of WordPress theme experts over several years that you don’t have to do.
April 4, 2013
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CSS Media Queries are a Hack
Ian Storm Taylor tells us that Media Queries are the wrong tool for responsive design. What we really need is Element Queries.
Writing modular code is about making small objects, and making them self-contained. Media queries don’t let you do that. In most cases, you don’t actually care about the width of the entire document (or screen), you care about the width of your element.
Read all about how Media Queries are a Hack over at Ian’s site.
April 1, 2013
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Clay Shirky on Institutions vs Collaboration
In this TED Talk, Clay Shirky shows how closed groups and companies will give way to looser networks where small contributors have big roles and fluid cooperation replaces rigid planning.
March 18, 2013
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George Lois on Manipulating Photographs Pre-Photoshop
Here’s another awesome talk from Creative Mornings NY. This time it’s the legendary designer you may not have heard of, George Lois. Here he talks about culture in the sixties and manipulating photographs for the covers of Esquire Magazine.
March 15, 2013
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Jason Santa Maria on saying NO
Another great Creative Mornings talk. This time Jason Santa Maria gives you permission to say ‘no’.
March 8, 2013
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Inventor Portrait: Ralph Baer
Nice little Inventor Portrait done by PBS about a 90 year old inventor that’s still making stuff. Microcontroller stuff.
August 31, 2012
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Basic Soldering Lessons
Check out these great PACE soldering lessons on the YouTubes. Start with the first one, Solder & Flux below.
August 31, 2012
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Text Box Hints
From UX Matters - Don’t Put Hints Inside Text Boxes in Web Forms
If you include hint text inside your form’s text boxes, many users—quite likely, the majority—will interpret the hint text as a default. If that’s what you want, go right ahead. Otherwise, think of another way of helping your users.
July 27, 2012
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How to Pitch a Redesign (oldschool)
How a thing looks today is as important as how well it works. As never before, people are influenced by what they see.
Brain Pickings provides us with a great look back at Saul Bass’s original pitch for the Bell Systems logo redesign. Powerpoint wasn’t around in 1969, which means instead of a dry slideshow we get a treat of a video. The production value is amazing, and the content equally inspiring. Check it out, and surf the Brain Pickings while you’re over there.