CSS Zentangle

CSS Zentangle

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After returning from a three month journey through Southeast Asia, I’ve been doodling elephants. Lots and lots of zentangle elephants. I attribute this to the set of Micron pens I bought in Thailand, and wonder if these fine writing instruments are even capable of drawing patternless, non-tropical animals. Testing that theory hardly appeals to me since I’m still in elephant mode. So instead, I decided to challenge myself in other ways by creating the world’s first purely HTML/CSS “hachyderm”.

Filtering Grids with Isotope.js

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peaceful isolation listening to isochronic beats writing about isotope jQuery iso love this ♥ Dave DeSandro, over at Metafizzy, developed a super smooth isotope jQuery plugin which, I think, should exist in every designer’s playground. It filters, it sorts,...

My First Hackathon

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After working from “home” for the past dozen or so years, it just dawned on me. Other than what I see on my screen, I’m entirely out of touch with my fellow designers and developers! Suddenly, I had a craving for some human interaction in my professional life and...
Designing For An International Audience

Designing For An International Audience

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Reaching global audiences The more I travel, the more I realize there are few things in this world that can be universally translated. "Hello!" works everywhere, that’s a given. Smiles are safely accepted world wide, or at least, in the places on my...
App Review: InVision

App Review: InVision

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Design is not only how it looks, but also how it works. Wireframing is key to a successful user interface design. Wireframes are like blueprints, the foundation on which you plan to build your project. Not only do you get a chance to flesh out the overall structure of...