One needs a little something to look forward to, especially when the toils of the day might grind the slowest. Around our parts we exercise the right to the funk. Every day, at 5:00 sharp (who leaves before 5:00 anymore?), I throw on a few choice tracks to revive spirits and ignite the drive to finish strong.
Check out these crazy ass USB keys, conveniently offered in popular gang signs and other semi-inappropriate gestures.
They key with any website or application is emotion: the more your users get attached to your site, the more enjoyable their experience will be and the more likely they are to use it. Here are 5 ways to make your site or app more personal.
While putting together a few pieces of my own work, I spent some time today looking for solid examples of online web design portfolios. Unfortunately, most fall woefully short of any expectation of a usable, beautiful, simple look into the work of a designer.
I did find several solid examples, and as tempting as it’d [...]
This month’s Quick Look email newsletter from Hoefler & Frere-Jones is an excellent look at Four Techniques for Combining Fonts.
Neutron Interactive, a Salt Lake City web marketing agency, recently launched an inspiring take on finding talented people on the web. Faced with the dilemma of too many Microsoft Word template resumes — a pervasive and bewildering reality amongst designers, one I’ll surely address in future rant — CEO Dan Caffee and Lead Developer Zach Holmquist [...]
Fitzwilliam Darcy, of Pemberley:
I cannot boast of knowing more than half a dozen [women], in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished.
Jane Austen goes on to describe, in Pride and Prejudice, what makes an accomplished woman:
A woman must have a thorough knowledge of music, singing, drawing, dancing, and the modern languages, to deserve the word; [...]
Noticed today while adding a new Twitter account that Twitter has a great little model for solving the “where’s the actions” fold problem:
Their Next and Back buttons are placed on a little floating div at the footer. The content obviously scrolls, but no longer do you have to scroll down to Save. Nice. Filed in [...]
Adam Schefter is an ESPN reporter. One of the good ones. One of the ones you see in the ticker on TV saying “as reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter.” In journalism speak, that means something. Scooping, or being the first to report, a hot story can lead a reporter to being known as an inside [...]
Global Ignite week is now in full swing, and we get our turn at the firehose here in Salt Lake City this Thursday. Doors at the Stateroom open at 6pm, with 18 speakers and tons more on tap.
Ignite is best described as “geek culture” — an awesome mix of technology, nerd references, inside [...]