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#TGIF (at Duke UX)
My first post on Medium is a short story about monkey bars and tight schedules.
Comic Sans was NOT designed as a typeface but as a solution to a problem with the often overlooked part of a computer program’s interface, the typeface used to communicate the message.
There was no intention to include the font in other applications other than those designed for children when I designed Comic Sans. The inspiration came at the shock of seeing Times New Roman used in an inappropriate way.
"Vincent Connare, the creator of Comic Sans, recounts the origins of what is probably the most frowned-upon typeface in the world (amongst designers, at least).
Go Big & Go Home
I wrote some thoughts on why I think it’s a bad idea to bite the hand that feeds you, what you should do instead and how we’ll all be better off for it,
Would love your thoughts in the comments or on twitter.
New office space. Yay (at Duke UX)
We’ve come so far.
Those Fisher-Price phones totally run Android.
I’d kill to have that Motorola in the top left
Long, long overdue addition to my shelves
This past weekend, I participated in the 2012 Rails Rumble.
We built Votes.io, a sleek app for creating quick opinion polls.
I wrote some thoughts about the design choices we made, and how a designer fits into a team of three programmers in a hackathon.
Refinement.
Stay tuned for more awesome. We’ll have a sweet results page to show in a little while! votes.io
Attics are typically dull, dreary andused for storage but what a transformation into an incredible workspace.
Sciencewerk designed this simple and classy identity system for an Indonesian company.
Type used is Adobe Caslon.
(via FPO)
Mid-Century desk with funky chair.
Discussion of No UI with readers and special guest Don Norman.
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It sounds dumb. Marketing hype like 3D cameras and saving money on your car insurance.
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But as needless, boring and...
Phillip Greenspun on his experience using Windows 8 on a regular PC (not a Surface):
Confused...
Last week, we hosted the first of what we hope will be many meetups at Dribbble HQ in Salem, MA. Dribbblers from all over...