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The Juices and The Flows Have Been Diminished
June 23, 2010 - Renaissance: A rebirth or revival; an awakening; a fresh take Woot... JS libraries, font embedding, CSS3, HTML5, and a heck of a lot of cool stuff is on the table. Designers are laying down some amazing designs, and the strongest stuff seems to have to do with better…
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Design For Efficiency: Photoshop Techniques & Templates
June 24, 2010 - Yep, it's me again. The pro-process designer who wants you to use smart objects and break those awful Photoshop habits. Are you noticing a theme yet? I love efficiency. And organizing. And most of all, organizing efficiently. So I've got yet another process-tweaking post for…
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UX 101: The Wireframe
July 12, 2010 - If you develop web sites you're probably pretty familiar with the wireframe, and if you're a user experience designer you're probably rolling your eyes at yet another post about what a wireframe is and what it's good for. If, on the other hand, you're not involved in the…
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Taking Traditional Design Concepts & Print Design Aesthetics to the Web: Advantages & Disadvantages
July 15, 2010 - When I came into web design fresh off the print world, I wanted to make innovative and crazy looking websites that broke a lot of rules to create unique experiences for users. However, I forgot all about the importance of user-friendly navigation, functionality, usability, and…
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Sass: A Designer’s Perspective
July 19, 2010 - Let me start by saying that I am not a developer. Sure, I can write some pretty solid HTML and CSS, but beyond that I defer to our great team of developers. So when I first heard about Sass, the right side of my brain freaked out. While the idea of Syntactially Awesome…
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Twitter
July 27, 2010 - Twitter has become one of the best ways to spread the word about your new business and increase exposure across markets. With such a flexible tool, it's easy to abuse such a strategy and consequently turn its power against you. Of course there are no Twitter speed limits, yield…
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Clean Up Your Photoshop Swatches and Styles
August 24, 2010 - I can't stand how Photoshop loads your Swatch and Styles palettes with a whole pile of useless defaults. They gunk up a feature that should, by its very nature, be as pared down as possible. I try to keep custom palettes for the sites I'm designing because it makes my…
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Behind the Scenes: Lafayette College
August 25, 2010 - Back around the time of the first and second North American blizzards of 2010 (more popularly referred to as the Snowpocalypse and/or Snowmageddon) we started working with Easton, PA based Lafayette College on a redesign of their Lafayette.edu website. It had been years (many…
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10 Omnigraffle tips you might not know (plus one bonus!)
August 27, 2010 - Over the past four months, I've been using Omnigraffle as my go-to diagramming app. During that time, I've collected a small set of tricks that make wireframing and diagramming easier. If you're a grizzled 'graffle veteran or someone who reads manuals, some of these might be…
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Knocking It Out
September 2, 2010 - This past weekend, I was holed up in the Viget Labs offices with three super talented developers - Chris Jones, David Eisinger and Ben Scofield - competing in the Node.js Knockout. Similar to other programming contests like the Rails Rumble, the Knockout takes place over a…
