Category Archives: Design

Cabel Sasser – Coda Confidential

This is a great presentation if you’re keen on doing UI elements and screen-based design for applications, the web, etc. For the record I bought and now use Coda and love it for the hand-coding portions of my site work.
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Living The Opaque Dream v7.5

It’s on – sort of. Welcome to the beginning of yet another redesign of this web site, only this time it’s more like starting over and rebuilding on a freshly laid foundation. Anyone really paying attention will wonder how I went from version 6 to version 7.5. Where’s version 7? Version 7 in all it’s iterations [...]
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IT Still Doesn’t Understand Apple

Over the past few days the whole Duke/iPhone controversy has basically reminded me that the Windows-centric IT world is basically afraid of Apple. Those unfamiliar with the story should scan the following articles: Duke Uni Eyes Apple iPhone As Source Of Wireless Network Woes (CNN Money) iPhone may not be cause of Duke wireless woes [...]
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Web Teams

Jeffrey Zeldman reveals the first constant from the Web Designers Survey – little did I know that it was regarding web workers not actually working in a web division. I wish every manager I had would read this and understand what it means for them. Let There Be Web Divisions
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Apple Human Interface Guidelines Still Controversial

With the recent Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard announcments at WWDC we all now know what sort of UI changes to expect from Apple this fall. The speculated and rumored scalable UI doesn’t seem to be a reality except for maybe the iPhone. Instead we have a more consistent implementation of the gray theme from [...]
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After Effects CS3 Ships

Hey – I just realized that After Effects CS3 is shipping! Nifty. Looks like I’ll have my copy on Friday. 
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Hi-Def Disc Producers Fail to Learn From Standard DVD

High Def Digest has a list of the most annoying traits on both Blu-Ray and HD-DVD discs. Other than the newer format-specific quibbles most of the annoyances are problems that have existed with standard DVDs. When DVDs first came out they were pretty much bare-bones, then discs starting getting excessive with the menus and transitions. [...]
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Great write-up of new Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 Features

About Camera Raw 4.1, by Jeff Schewe Looks great, and just in time for all the raw-based photo shoots I just did.
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