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“But what is ‘design’ actually? Is it a logo? A WordPress theme? An innovative UI? It’s so much more than that. It’s a state of mind. It’s an approach to a problem. It’s how you’re going to kick your competitor’s ass. This handy guide will help you understand design and provide resources to help you find awesome design talent.”

April 5, 2012

business / design / startup / user experience

“Snapguide and Paper have two things in common. Both appeal to the creative side of mobile users, and both are themselves beautifully made and deceptively simple to use. I think it’s these qualities that are going to provide a roadmap for more iOS apps to come that will appeal to the artsy, creative side of people, rather than the traditional consumption-oriented theme of what have so far been the most popular types of apps on Apple’s platform.”

April 5, 2012

apple / creativity / design / ios

“But I do know that I must continue to infuse myself and my children with bold confidence. I must check in, ask questions, take the time. I must build and undo. I must be open and genuine. I must but willing to dance naked in the mirror, resist the urge to see all the ways five babies have changed me, and stare straight into my reflection with love. Then together, with a twinkle in our eyes, we only see radiance shining back.”

April 3, 2012

“This Off Canvas layout demo has 3 panels that display differently depending on the viewport width. The idea here is to have the two supporting panels of navigation and sidebar content hidden just off-screen to the left and right for easy access on small/medium viewports.”

March 31, 2012

design / responsive design

“Websites are so much more than just usable interfaces: they tell a story. The style tile is a design deliverable that references website interface elements through font, color, and style collections delivered alongside a site map, wireframes, and other user experience artifacts. Style tiles are based on visual preference discussions with the client. They’re sample options that spur discussion with stakeholders on a common visual language.”

March 30, 2012

a list apart / design

This reminds me of one of the best things about art school: objective critiques of each other’s work. I haven’t really had that in some time. Further, it gives specific ways to create “artistic distance” between oneself and the work, regardless of whether other folks are involved. Necessary.

March 30, 2012

a list apart / art / design

“I have talked to several friends who have felt tricked by religion into believing that things are black and white when they are often various shades of gray. They still love Jesus but they don’t want to do that to their children. A very noble goal. But in their attempt to protect their children from the deceit of the religious system, they often swing the pendulum the other way by ‘not indoctrinating’ their children – which really means either allowing someone or something else to indoctrinate them (peers, family, or culture in the form of television and advertising) or indoctrinating them with a doctrine of ‘no doctrine.’”

March 30, 2012

parenting / theology

On using Adobe’s contribution of CSS Regions to make more organized responsive layouts.

March 25, 2012

adobe / css / css3 / design / responsive design

“The statement I was after was not a description of what an organisation does, or the story it’s telling its customers, or how it talks about itself, but rather a description of what we must do on the project. A Statement of Design Intent. A new Make Mantra for the Maker, not for the organisation.”

March 24, 2012

“The web as we know and build it has primarily been accessed from the desktop. That is about to change. The ITU predicts that in the next 18–24 months, mobile devices will overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the web. If these predictions come true, very soon the web—and its users—will be mostly mobile.”

March 21, 2012

a list apart / design / mobile / user experience