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Interaction Design, UX and general nerdery – straight from the Rossi's mouth.
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Hagin is a free web-font which is svelt and has cool hair, but also wears a tweed jacket with elbow patches and smells a bit funny. Just look at that “K”!
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Instacast releases v2.0, totally muddles up the UX
The many football fans where I come from, say you don’t change a winning team. Then why screw with one of the interfaces most full of win on iOS? Yesterday I updated to the newest version of Instacast, and although I there are some neat improvements, I gotta say I’m at a loss about a few of the choices.
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Felix's Node.js Convincing the boss guide »
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve been nerding out a lot lately, and was introduced to Node.JS by the old McRoberts. Here’s a handy guide for those of you trying to convince a client to switch, or even whether it’s for you. (via Hackernews)
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Maybe some anti-gravity will help you get inspired today.
- Mobile First, or why you should design your website for mobile and only then Desktop »
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LiveReload magically updates the browser every time you save a file. SAVE YOUR MOUSE! »
My pal David recommended this awesome app, which speeds up your coding process by updating elements as you edit them, without the need to update the browser every time you hit “save.” It’s $9.99 but well-worth it if you’re a professional.
Great for dual-monitor editing, plus you could add up all the time you waste switching and reloading, and waste that time on Facebook instead!
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Mozilla Sandstone is a framework for building Mozilla pages. Lately, all my teams have been applying the same kind of idea to every project – create a styleguide page containing all styles, grids and combination, Bootstrap-style.
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It’s always great to see a touch interface being used the way it was meant to, and not just point-and-click minus the mouse (cough, cough… iCal… cough, cough).
iThoughts HD is one those apps. With it, you can create “Thought Maps” – a great habit for brainstorms – as well as wireframes. I was introduced to it by a client last week (my clients know their shit :)), and bought it immediately – worth every penny of the $9.99 price tag.
The way you create branches, manipulate, colorize, move, add, delete, etc. is not only fast and effective, but makes the whole process delightful. When you tap on something and move it around, the lines animate and follow you around, like tentacles.
This would be a very basic tool as far as wireframing goes (although it does have shapes and colors), but it’s just what I need when I’m playing IA.
- Apple makes Siri ads with celebs. Attempt to make it look less silly to talk to a robot when not alone in car? »
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Google+ Redesign: a compliment and a criticism.
If you have a Google account, or if you read the interwebs today, by now you know they’ve released a nice, full redesign of G+. Good call! I won’t do a full analysis of it because I don’t have time, but I do have two comments, a compliment and a criticism.
