May 2012
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“Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly...”
– Julia Cameron
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“When launching a new [digital] product, let’s focus more on discussing its...”
– Fictive Cameron
Via swissmiss
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The Facebook Fallacy →
For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site. Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.
I still believe that Facebook will find their way and innovate in ways we can’t imagine, but they have an uphill battle to fight on the advertising front. The challenge is equally their advertising model as well as educating advertisers on...
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“Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.”
– Voltaire
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“Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for miseries and yet it is itself...”
– Blaise Pascal
From Zen Focus’ article Three Little Habits to Find Focus
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“Paying attention in a distracted world: it’s like bringing a gun to a knife...”
– James Shelley
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Getting Share Counts →
Until we can get Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and Pinterest to sign a peace treaty and standardize on a common size for share buttons, their mismatched and unaligned buttons will continue to be a thorn in every designer’s side.
For now our best bet is to simply roll your own button with a share count for each service. Today I did a bit of digging and put together a quick Gist to get...
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“The quality of your UX shows how much your respect or disrespect your customers”
– Alexis Ohanian - co-founder of Reddit, Hipmunk and Breadpig
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April 2012
14 posts
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Anonymous asked: In the theme "Origin West" you just released, how on earth did you extract a user's most recent Instagram shots and display them? I've been trying to figure it out but I just can't! (It looks beautiful, by the way.)
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“If there’s something you want to build, but the tech isn’t there yet, just find...”
– Dennis Crowley (via collaborativefund)
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“Don’t ignore your dreams; don’t work too much; say what you think;...”
– Paul Graham, The Top of My Todo List
Based on the top five regrets of the dying, Paul Graham added these five items to the top of his ongoing todo list.
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“The trick about writing is to write. There is no trick.”
– Glenn Fleishman
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Story Centered Design →
Once you’re dealing with an app that has a dozen screens and hundreds of states, you can’t hold the whole product in your head like a poster. I noticed that our team was emailing around individual screens, talking about individual screens, and naming all the screens just to keep track. But we weren’t paying any attention to how the screens and features fit together.
We were thinking of the...
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Theme Updates - Spotify & Pinterest →
As soon as we got the details on the new Spotify player on Tumblr, Jess and I put in some long hours over the last two days (and nights) to pulled off major updates to all 15 of our Style Hatch Tumblr themes.
In addition to support for the Spotify player, we added Pinterest’s ‘pin it’ button to the share options. We will be publishing a full list of changes soon since some of...
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“With disappointment comes clarity, conviction and true originality.”
– Conan O’Brien
March 2012
11 posts
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WatchDay Dreaming
Ry Craike captured at home over Summer by Rick Rifici on his latest High Speed Camera the RED EPIC from the water at 300 frames per second.
I’m convinced that you could film just about anything in the ocean at 300 frames per second and it would look pretty amazing. The track in the video is The Suburbs by Mr Little Jeans.
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“In 2112, creativity will be the most valued form of work because creativity is...”
– John Maeda, on the future and creativity
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“Oh that’s really cool! I’ve never heard of ppl using fb to do...”
– - Cher C., in reply to Style Hatch’s support on Facebook that we just rolled out
If you or the brand you work with has “Facebook eCommerce page” anywhere our your social media strategy, you should fire your team. Ok, that might be a bit harsh, but the truth is people interact...
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How to Hustle SXSW for Fun & Profit →
Heading to SXSW Interactive this year? Danielle Morrill put together a great article on how to get the most out of SXSW including prepping your calendar (don’t do it) and prepare like a soccer mom on crack.
This year our entire Style Hatch team—all three of us @Moore, @iJess and @krisnicolemoore—are packing and heading to Austin for the week. We’re putting together the details for a...
February 2012
23 posts
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“Among idealists and visionaries, there is no shortage of good intent, but...”
– Scott Belsky, Behance
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“Burnout is not caused by working hard. Burnout is caused by not shipping.”
– Mike Lee
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Why We Speak Freely on Social Networks →
Social networking sites give us portals into another person’s (user’s) mind, so far as that person (user) makes public their thoughts, ideas, feelings and desires. At times, we are perhaps more honest online, and especially on social networks, than we are in real life.
I am pretty certain that we can all think of a few people where there seems to be a contradiction from their...
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