BenjaminKeen.com
Very useful bookmarklet that renders the page you’re viewing in several device sizes. Great for testing responsive designs.
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2012 UX Bootcamps
I’m very excited to be running a Bootcamp again for UX Bootcamps in April next year. This year, it was great fun working alongside some talented UX-ers up their graphic design skills. And, considerable progress was made in just two days.
Alongside th… Continue reading
Feelings: The Technology Podcast About People
Joe Clark with a superb idea; a series of podcast interviews with the focus on the person, not their work, projects or how successful and wonderful they are. Joe: please make this happen. Continue reading
5by5: Me on Grids
I had the pleasure of speaking with Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) on her show on 5by5: A Web Ahead..
For a whole 100 minutes (!) I harped on about responsive design, grids, design process, news, advertising and a few other things. Despite my dodgy sore th… Continue reading
The New, Convoluted Life Cycle Of A Newspaper Story
Great piece from 10,000 Words on the natural growth of news.
Having done a ton of thinking about this over the last year, this resonates so much with my thoughts and conclusions. This particularly struck me:
Unlike a blog like TechCrunch, for exa… Continue reading
The making of FF Tundra | I love typography, the typography and fonts blog
A wonderful story about the creation of FF Tundra on I Love Typography. Such a great insight into the design decisions, and motivations behind them, when crafting a typeface design. Continue reading
Five & Ten
Jason Santa Maria – the talented bastard – goes and redesigns his site and serves up a masterclass in understated elegance. The subtleties here are sublime. Look, absorb, learn.
Interestingly, Jason states one of the reasons he redesigned this … Continue reading
An alternative to employee options/equity grants
Very interesting, simple solution to equity/share options which is similar to an annual profit share scheme. Except this example is when the company is sold or IPOs. A very elegant solution. Continue reading
How Much Design Is Too Much Design?
Khoi echoes some of my own thoughts about the value of design in digital products: is it pixel-perfection, or ‘good enough’ iteration. Continue reading
Explorations in Typography
A great looking book by Carolina de Bartolo and Erik Spiekermann out in April 2011:
Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting (A Visual Textbook for Intermediate to Advanced Typography) is a vast collection of beautiful types… Continue reading
The Ghosts of Old London
Wonderful imagery from 1800′s London. Some of the buildings shown look incredibly ramshackled. More Elizabethan than Victorian, I wish some of London looked like this now. Continue reading
