Big Letters
Some big letters I found while wandering the streets of Vancouver this weekend. I’d love to do a whole alphabet series of these.
The Letter W
The Letter g
Winter Solstice
Winter Solstice
No mater what creator you may believe in one thing we can all agree on is the passing of the solstice. May the darkest nights bring to you the brightest of days!
-Pez
Designing
for Emotion &
Mobile First
A few weeks back A Book Apart released their fifth and sixth books in their series of brief books for people wo make websites. Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter and Mobile First by Luke Wroblewski are must haves for any designer who needs to keep on top of the state of the web. In keeping with the spirit of these books I will make my statements on each book… Brief.
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Thank you, Steve
On October 5th 2011, humanity lost one of our greatest creative minds, Steve Jobs.
I am writing this several days after his passing, and much of what I can say, has been said by so many others far more eloquently than I can put into words. So why do I bother? Although I never met him, or even saw him in the flesh, Steve’s actions had a huge impact on my life.
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png-shadow property for CSS
I’d like to start with a heads up; I am a front-end developer and designer. I have very little knowledge of the magic that goes on in a PNG file. Also, the bowels of browser rendering are like that of my own digestion system; I know it works and I use it all the time, but how it works remains a mystery. So, if there is something inherently wrong or impossible with the png-shadow property’s operation, please let me know! My perspective is that of creating HTML structure and applying CSS to it. With that in mind, let’s continue.
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UIs are clothing for the mind.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball sheds some light on the history of UI (User Interface) design and how conformity, uniformity and fashion dictate style and design.
Knobs and Dials
I had a chat with my friend Brian from bpdesign.ca this morning about designing interfaces for touch devices versus mouse/keyboard input and physical objects. Brian is in the process of designing an drum machine for VST and iPad. Our conversation was mostly concerned with knobs and dials on User Interfaces (UI). In the physical world knobs are a no-brainer; the articulation of the human wrist allows us to turn knobs on stereos for volume or set the temperature of the heating element on the stove. So simple that we don’t even think about it.
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Apps Vs. Mobile Web
It’s been said already but the fact remains, mobile is huge and getting bigger, any business on the web would be stupid to ignore mobile users. As more people are buying devices like the iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, and Android phones/tablets they are beginning to use them as their primary means to consume content. The question that needs to be raised for folks serving content to an increasingly mobile audience is “What is the best way to deliver content to as many mobile consumers as possible?”
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Custom Facebook pages using iFrame
Ahhh…The delicate art of making Facebook productive, right now Facebook is in the process of depreciating FBML pages the language they’ve been using for years. This is a big shift for front-end developers. Instead of using the FBML environment to create custom pages (or tabs) for clients we now have to get a little deeper into facebook development and build an app. This sounds tricky at first but there’s good news. Facebook apps use iframes to display content. All that’s needed is to create and app on Facebook developers and point it to content on our servers. Lets go through the process.
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Site Launch!
It’s official now! lineandpixel.com is live! Woohoo! Fanfare! Hand Shaking! Etc!
Now that we’re done with the celebrating (wasn’t that fun!?!) let’s go through a few highlight features that have been built into lineandpixel.com. We can’t give away everything though, some things are best discovered for yourself. Before we continue please note: This site is public beta, some features may not work correctly on all browsers and systems (I’m looking at you Internet Explorer). Also, there is still a few items in development (eg:comments on blog posts) so please bare with us and check back often! Thanks! Let’s go!
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