Music and Design – a love story

Music and Design – a love story

I sat on the hotel room floor, surrounded by guitars, keyboards, and gadgets, doodling on a complimentary Holiday Inn notepad. Dad tinkered with a motherboard as his soldering iron glowed, delicately balanced on the edge of an ashtray. The smell of pork chops, rice and beans wafted through the air as mom worked her magic on our portable double burner stove. I sat on the floor, glued to the television. It was that very moment the iconic M came to life and made its beautiful debut.

App Review: InVision

App Review: InVision

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...
ZTreeWin

ZTreeWin

When people look over my shoulder, one of the comments I often get is, "What program is THAT?" Since about 1990 or so, I’d been using this file management utility called XTree. The last version for DOS was called XTreeGold. I used it for many years,...

A Visual Guide to Marionette.js Views

When I first began working on the front-end to this one interactive application, I decided to just write a few lines of JavaScript to handle some miscellaneous things behaviors on the front-end. However, that soon turned into a completely interactive front-end with...
Enter Foundation 4

Enter Foundation 4

My plan for this blog post was to introduce my preferred "front-end framework", Zurb Foundation. But then the folks over at Zurb saw fit to sabotage my effort by releasing a new version of Foundation. Can you believe the nerve? So instead I’ll just...