Coffee Blog Post on RPA’s blog
In July I traveled to Costa Rica to attend a friend’s wedding. During the trip I was able to visit a coffee plantation. Ever since then I have thought about the visit whenever I fill my coffee cup at RPA. I wrote a short blog post about my experience on RPA’s culture blog.
Robert Egger
It’s always encouraging to hear a designer talk about what inspires them. Regardless of the field, design attracts people who are dedicated to making everything that they touch better.
Design ideas do seem to come directly from the experience of working with your hands, even if it just means sketching before heading to the computer.
Who killed the inactive button state? – Blog Post on UX Booth
A few weeks ago I was designing a web application that included a form. When it came time to design and spec the submit button and I realized that including an inactive (or disabled) state for submit button was not only unnecessary, but it would detract from the usability of the application. Please check out the blog post I wrote about inactive states on UXBooth.
Digital Photography Cheat Sheet
An awesome digital photography cheat sheet by Miguel Yatco for keeping all the details straight.
Instapol – MobileHackDays 2011 Winner
Last weekend I had the pleasure to work with three brilliant Harvey Mudd students, Ozzie Gooen, Rahul Swaminathan and Paul Hobbs building this mobile web app Instapol for Mobile Hack Days. Instapol is a mobile web application that allows presenters to gain instant feedback from their audience. Instapol creates real-time graphs of audience responses to questions.
Stephen Powers Sign Painter
Quoted from Drawn. Hand-painted lettering is powerful and eclectic, but also unique and surprising. There’s nothing else quite like a hand-painted sign.
Awesome Watercolor Animation
Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (feat. Irfane) – HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo. Quoted/Stolen from: 72dpi
Adobe Edge Experiment
The animation above isn’t Flash, it’s a JavaScript animation created with Adobe Edge. Adobe Edge is a prototype application that allows designers to create iPhone/iPad friendly JavaScript and CSS3 animations. Edge is an HTML5 technology and designed for mobile devices, but it’s not sophisticated enough to be a Flash replacement. Right now it lacks bells and whistles like filters, drop shadows and layer styles. There’s also no coding panel to insert scripts. The application interface looks and feels more like AfterEffects than Flash, hopefully it will eventually evolve into a robust tool for creating cross-platform rich media content.
Important Statistics about Copywriters
This made the rounds about a month ago, but it’s funny.
Flip-book animation
Disney XD – Pair of Kings from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.
Two flip-book style animations. Both of these are about a year old but still very cool.