December 2010
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What are your top 5 pieces of advice for... →
Answered by Dennis Crowley co-founder of Foursquare
Here is a summary of the five pieces of advice, but make sure you click through to get all the nuggets of wisdom.
Stop sketching and start building.
Don’t let people tell you your ideas won’t work.
Build early and often.
Don’t let a lack of technology get in the way.
Hire the best people you can find.
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November 2010
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“Live out of your imagination, not your history.”
– Stephen R. Covey
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New Safari Features in iPhone & iPad 4.2 →
With the recent 4.2 update for the iPad and iPhone Apple quietly added a number of new features to mobile Safari. Mobile Safari now has direct support for the accelerometer, gyroscope, HTML5 web sockets, updated HTML5 form support, new Javascript data types, updated DOM events, and enhanced SVG and Canvas support.
Also it appears that mobile Safari now has far better support for @font-face...
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The 1-Step Plan for Super-Productivity →
Wake Up Early
Excellent article from 99 Percent on how rising early to start your day will lead to better productivity and a greater sense of control over your day.
When I interview creatives, I often ask them what advice they would give to the next generation, the up-and-comers. Curiously, there’s one incredibly important habit that nearly all of them possess that is almost never mentioned. So...
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“The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one’s self. And the...”
– Igor Stravinsky
This quote summarizes one of the many things I love about the Tumblr platform. When designing a theme for Tumblr the simplicity of the Tumblr feature set provides an excellent constraint that helps us (Style Hatch) focus on “precision of execution”.
Via Jonathan...
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Fluid 1140px CSS Grid System →
Great looking CSS grid framework by Andy Taylor that is designed for 1280px wide monitors, but scales all the way down to mobile resolutions. Don’t be surprised if this ends up in a future Style Hatch premium Tumblr theme.
Next week I’ll post more details about several of the upcoming themes that’ll be launching soon. Lots of exciting projects in the works!
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“The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.”
– George Bernard Shaw
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Good Design Is…
Good design is innovative
Good design is complex
Good design is simple
Good design is clever
Good design is full of emotion
Good design is fades into the experience
Good design is paying attention to every detail
What is good design to you?
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“So don’t let all the news of the day slow you down. Don’t let your competitors...”
– A VC: Your Worst Enemy Is Yourself (via heyamberrae)
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The Internet? Bah! →
A 1995 essay in Newsweek predicting that the Internet will end up being a big flop that will never take off.
Then there’s cyberbusiness. We’re promised instant catalog shopping—just point and click for great deals. We’ll order airline tickets over the network, make restaurant reservations and negotiate sales contracts. Stores will become obselete. So how come my local mall does...
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WatchHate/Love
Right now I hate/love this business. I hate/love this work. I hate/love this project. I hate/love these ideas.
It’s all up to your and your work.
Created for the 2010 Advertising and Design Club of Canada (ADCC) Awards. See the full opening credits.
Thanks Bran for showing me this one.
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“No is easier to do. Yes is easier to say.”
– Jason Fried
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DISUNION →
Yesterday NYTimes.com launched a new blog DISUNION covering the daily unfolding events of the Civil War—150 years after it happened.
DISUNION One-hundred-and-fifty years ago, Americans went to war with themselves. Disunion revisits and reconsiders America’s most perilous period — using contemporary accounts, diaries, images and historical assessments to follow the Civil War as it...
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Marco Arment's Journey From Bagel Jockey to... →
Co-Founder of Tumblr and the one-man-force behind Instapaper.
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“If you emerge from university today with a web design degree, chances are rather...”
– The UX Design Education Scam
A well written article by Andy Rutledge on the disservice universities and higher educations are doing to students going into user experience or web-related design. I would much rather hire someone self-taught and motivated to learn over someone who spent years... 