Golden Ratio Typography Calculator
Although a year old, I just discovered the great Golden Ratio Typography Calculator by Chris Pearson. With a few clicks, it helps you create perfectly balanced typography from a set of parameters. He...
View ArticleCaring for Your Users
Greg Mathews, on how Instagram fights possibly harmful user-generated content: As designers and developers we reach a lot of people in the work that we do everyday. With this reach we have a...
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5 Essential Design Books That Are Not About Design
There are a couple of design classics that, it seems, almost everyone have read. You’ve probably read at least one of them: Design of Everyday Things, Don’t Make Me Think or Elements of Typographic...
View ArticleFacebook Home Looks Great, In Theory
Ellis Hamburger for The Verge: When you install Facebook Home (or buy an HTC First), your homescreen will be whatever your friends are posting, no matter how good, bad, or downright terrible. When you...
View ArticleFailure Through Acquisition
Jake Lodwick writing for pandodaily: The party ended in 2006, when we sold our company to IAC, a conglomerate owned by media mogul Barry Diller. Bit by bit, the youthful energy that created so much...
View ArticleApp Design Tips from Luke Wroblewski
Some great advice from Luke. I’m somewhat concerned about hiding passwords, though, but from the looks of this Storify thread, it seems to work great—no security issues, and great conversion rates.
View ArticleAre They Good at a Minimum of Two Things?
Georg Petschnigg, co-Founder and CEO of FiftyThree, in an interview at 99u: There’s a simple question we ask when we’re thinking about bringing a new person onto our team: are they good at a minimum of...
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Say Hello to SpellRush
About a year ago I started studying Obj-C every morning before heading off to work. Last week I finally launched SpellRush, my first iOS app. It’s available for free on the App Store, so I urge you to...
View ArticleThe McDonald’s Theory
Jon ‘I Enjoy’ Bell: I use a trick with co-workers when we’re trying to decide where to eat for lunch and no one has any ideas. I recommend McDonald’s. An interesting thing happens. Everyone unanimously...
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Acorn 4
Flying Meat just released a major new version of Acorn, with a refreshed UI, speed improvements, non-destructive layer filters, and more.
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