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Linux for the Creative Type?
Call me a Design+OSS fanboy, but UbuntuStudio looks awesome. Finally an Open Source operating system aimed at us designerly folks. I know, I know, all that software has been around for a while, but it will be nice for it to be all wrapped up in a tightly wound package. I’ll let you know if…
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FYI: Free Stuff for Mother’s Day
Skype CoPilot
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Even Apple is not Immune
to a poor design. I stumbled across this newish area of the Apple site this morning. I won’t go into details, just because I’m lazy, but from this designer’s perspective this page is U-G-L-Y. So many gradients and colors and flashing boxes. Not to mention the fact that it has slowed my computer to a…
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It’s Gotta Start with Imagination
It’s true, there’s definitely a time and a place for getting one’s hands dirty. Sometimes there’s just no way around digging into the details and making things right. Sometimes, even as a designer, you’re going to have to play with the CSS to get the alignment right, because if not you, who will? Still, it’s…
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Happy CSS Naked Day!
I’m celebrating by taking down the old stylesheets, and letting it all hang out. Happy CSS Naked Day everybody. Here’s to accessibility and an open web for everyone!
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CSS Testing
The last few weeks I’ve been doing a lot of CSS writing. While this doesn’t necessarily fall under my job role, on many projects I end up doing it because I’m the “designer”…therefore I am put in charge of implementing style. Whatever. Turns out I kind of like it, so I let it pass, but…
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Banana = Design = Innovation = Vision
Banana = Vision Love it or hate it, Bruce Nussbaum makes some great points in Are Designers the Enemy of Design? I think I buy most of it. Is Design a specialist activity? If it’s done well, generally yes. Is that likely to change? For the most part, I don’t think so. Will ‘the everyman’…
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Better Blog Search: Implemented
Inspired by the most recent Creating Passionate Users article, I decided to try out a new search widget for my blog. It’s still a Google tool, but this new version takes you to a results page, rather than having a limited set of results spew out in gratuitous Ajaxy fashion. Hopefully this new version is…
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The Design of CruiseControl.rb
If you’ve heard me talk about work lately, you have probably heard me talk about an Open Source project I’ve been working on with a handful of other folks at ThoughtWorks. Previous to now, it’s been “privately public,” existing on servers where people could get to it, but not so public that we were letting…
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Songbird is sweet
I’ve been playing with Songbird, the music player made by Mozilla. For those of you who don’t know, Mozilla is the brains behind Firefox & Thunderbird, for browsing and email, respectively. My experience so far with Songbird is that it is awesome, especially given the fact that it’s still in early beta. It already does…