Weekend Reading — Simple but effective

_youhadonejob "Simple but effective." Design Objective Why you should share your dirty work by Jonas Downey of Basecamp When you look at most designers’ portfolios, you usually see beautiful, polished work … but the final product is only a small percentage of your total effort. It just represents your

Weekend Reading — Well, technically …

Well, technically … Design Objective Sounds like a Party The new Sonos logo is absolutely brilliant. Scroll to see the sound waves: Neven Mrgan on Why Skeuomorphism Is Like a Classic Car People wouldn't have fallen in love with cars in the 40's if cars had immediately

Weekend Reading — Modern ruins

History_Pics "Modern ruins" Design Objective Font Pair Helps you pair Google fonts. WhiteAlbum People are weird, witness this inconvenience photo app that sounds like it will be totally fun to use. Mobile First While the Internet hasn't been too kind to brick and mortar, mobile

Rounded Corners — The Yak Edition

MyBhutan "A white yak after a snowfall in Merak, one of the most remote villages in the world." Design Objective Deep Space - A Simulation Drama Fantastic presentation from Simon Swain, using JavaScript simulations of space exploration to show how simple rules give rise to complex behaviors. adunkman

Weekend Reading — WEEK_OF_YEAR

Design Objective 10 things that graphic designers get stuck with, and 10 books that can help Nice reading list. Tools of the Trade livedown Live Markdown previews for your favourite editor. Includes plugins for Vim, Emacs and Sublime. CSS: The Good Parts A simple style guide that makes a lot

Weekend Reading — Baby Jesus and miracle flights

Design Objective Flick Scrolling gesture Hopefully coming soon to the iPhone. Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps, and the uncanny valley… From which you'll learn how frames per second relates to our eyes constantly jiggling in our heads. Jiggle, jiggle. Tools of

Weekend Reading — SELECT * FROM customers WHERE

@withoutgorms nailed it Design Objective What colour is it? Tells the time in RGB. WTF Mobile Web Shaming sites with poor or non-existent mobile support. Elastic SVG Elements Cool SVG elements that wobble, squish and bounce when you interact with them. Love that this is possible with HTML. Today. Just

Weekend Reading — Comic Papyrus

trick mat Spacetime curvature placemats: Design Objective There is No Fold "The fold" on the Web, not a real thing. In fact, if the web has taught users anything, it's to "scroll before page fully loads". Everybody Scrolls Need more data points? "Almost

Weekend Reading — Slow programming

Design Objective What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans A perspective you don't see much of in the tech circles: Living on a low income translates into other forms of scarcity: of power, information, respect, opportunity, time, health, security, and even of sleep. Our job