A More Aggressive Yellow Jacket →
The yellow jacket mascot from my alma mater has recently been updated, by designer Jeremy Slagle. Contrasted against the previous mascot, this one is quite the improvement.
Saturday, June 12th, 2010
Monday, May 3rd, 2010
The goal of this “state of web development” survey is to try and look behind the statistics, and get a sense of the philosophies and techniques, as well as the technologies, that web designers and developers are using today.—
The State of Web Development 2010 | Web Directions
Some of the results that I found noteworthy:
- Few respondents use any form of Internet Explorer for their day to day web use, but IE8 is the number one browser developers test their sites in.
- jQuery has become even more dominant, with nearly 80% of all respondents using the library, up from 63% last year.
- Use of CSS3 and experimental CSS, up dramatically from last year.
Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
iPad Start Experience: 4 Licenses, 21 Steps →
How’s this for user experience? 4 license agreements, 21 steps total. I wonder how much time this takes to complete, and how much variation there is in the level of frustration between standard Apple users and diehard Apple fans?
(via @lukewdesign)
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
PowerMate USB Multimedia Controller →
I’ve seen this device before, and never really given it much thought, but when Griffin put out a request for beta testers for updated software (optimized for Snow Lepoard), it got me thinking: “How could I use this awesome shiny aluminum programmable glorified volume knob for web development?” It says it can be easily programmed to execute any key command in any application! What could it do in say, Photoshop, Coda, or the browser? Now the gears are spinning…
Friday, April 16th, 2010
CS5: An evolution of the designer’s toolbox →
The folks at idsign recently talked with the brand design team at Adobe, and have put together a comprehensive overview of the CS5 branding. Overall, I like the updated look and new direction. Personally, I’m hoping that Photoshop performance has been improved with this release, but I won’t know for sure until I upgrade.
