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Building a Custom HTML5 Audio Player with jQuery -
Ben Bodien, who also masterminds a lot of the jQuery, HTML5, and CSS3 material for Authentic Jobs, explains what it took to make Tim Van Damme’s audio player design for The Box a reality.
Via Cameron Moll
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I first spotted the experimental CSS3 buttons on Dribbble last week, and now the interactive designer, simurai, posted a demo of the buttons on his site. Overall the implementation is well done and all it needs is a few hacks to get it working on older browsers and IE. The buttons also feature Drew Wilson’s font-face icon set Pictos.
“Online video creators, advertisers and producers have an unhealthy fascination with viral videos, and that obsession is dragging down the entire industry. Why? Because viral videos are, at their core, no better than a fluffernutter white-bread sandwich, delivering little or no value to anyone.” — Screw Viral Videos. You Heard Me. Pass It On via Wired
The 26 year-old serial entrepreneurs Spencer Fry—creator of Carbonmade—shares his thoughts on focusing on one idea at a time and fighting off entrepreneur A.D.D.
Thankfully, there is a cure for “Entrepreneur’s A.D.D.” and that’s to fall in love with a single idea, what I like to call an “I’m in Love Idea”. You’ll know it when it happens.
Over the summer I have been actively turning down client work in an effort to focus on my “I’m in Love Idea”. During this shift from running a consulting and service based digital studio to creating and selling digital goods I will be sharing my ideas and thoughts about the process—tag: shift.
PATTERNS - Design Insights Emerging and Coverging -
Before concepts or ideas become trends patterns begin to emerge.
PATTERNS are how we capture and share some of the common insights we see bubbling up across projects, as well as out and about in the world. They are a foundation for intuition. A way to elevate insights to the level of cultural impact. And a way to tap into IDEO’s collective intelligence to do better work for our clients—even faster.
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Collection of 100+ 1970s Vintage desktop and pocket calculators.
Via Cool Hunting