January 2011
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When you’re working in a startup, there’s no such thing as “done.”
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“Christ is the Son of God Who dies for the redemption of sinners and was...”
– Watchman Nee, in the note left prior to his death in a Chinese prison.
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CSS3 Generator →
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Some Rules of Thumb for Digital Typography
A few things I’ve picked up along the way:
The line length for optimal reading is around one-and-a-half alphabets. So, to figure out how long a line of text should be, multiply your font size by 33.
What’s the best line-height? Probably between 1.5em and 1.75em.
Font sizes should be larger on screen than in print. 16px on screen approximates 12px in print, due to the distance at...
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manhattanmadness asked: Thank you for the follow!
I truly appreciate and though you've heard it a bit, your blog is brilliant! I've not yet been to NY or even out of Australia for that matter but I've really enjoyed reading your posts about the other New York spots other than the stereotypical areas and it looks like such an awesome community filled with never-ending exploration!
Thanks...
I truly appreciate and though you've heard it a bit, your blog is brilliant! I've not yet been to NY or even out of Australia for that matter but I've really enjoyed reading your posts about the other New York spots other than the stereotypical areas and it looks like such an awesome community filled with never-ending exploration!
Thanks...
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A vague aesthetic sense does not a designer make.
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Two New Yorks
I’ve had this conversation with several people recently, so I thought I’d codify it:
There are two New Yorks. There’s the one that visitors know, around Midtown - sanitized, disneyfied, sterilized, boring. It’s Rockefeller Center, Times Square, and the Statue of Liberty. It’s aggressive and masculine, but its character is superficial. It’s not illegitimate -...
If we keep referring to “e-commerce” as something separate from “commerce,” we’re missing the point.
A bookshelf in the shape of Manhattan. →
52 Weeks of UX: Is Facebook Temporary? →
I’ve been saying it for a while: the social bubble is going to burst.
Goldman Sachs is investing nearly $2 billion into Facebook, a company that is in no way first, best, or different. Companies like Foursquare and Gowalla are having money thrown at them, along with any company that describes themselves as “social,” whether they have a business plan or not.
This sounds an awful...
If your design isn't minimalist, you're doing...
Minimalism is the idea that a design should only incorporate its most essential features - it should not include any extraneous elements.
Design, meanwhile, is about creating well-thought-out solutions to problems. Every aspect of a design must be justifiable.
Therefore, legitimate design is always minimalist.
This doesn’t mean every website or poster or banner must be black Helvetica on...