A dumping ground for quick snippets of interesting content that i (Brent Graham) find in my everyday online travels.
After writing about Progressive Reduction for the first time on Tuesday, much of the feedback centers around “it’s too complicated.” For many, Progressive Reduction doesn’t work if you didn’t start off by building a minimal interface in the first place. This post will talk about how we took the idea of PR and turned it into code.
Time to tone down those rounded corners and gradients?
When LayerVault 2 launched earlier this spring, we believed that we were taking a risk by pursuing an entirely flat interface.
Well-loved products on the web share a similar design aesthetic, with roughly the same kinds of bevels, inset shadows, and drop shadows. For designers, achieving this level of “lickable” interface is a point of pride. For us, and for a minority of UI designers out there, it feels wrong.
We certainly didn’t invent the flat style but arriving at it was a violent process. We tore through hundreds of revisions (we have the LayerVault timelines to prove it) to potential interfaces before arriving at the answer that now makes us say “of course.” The desk at LayerVault’s original headquarters (my Manhattan apartment) still has the battle scars from objects being slammed down in anger. At one point, while working on a mockup, a MacBook was slammed shut so hard it was nearly unhinged.
(via Khoi Vinh - on the grid)
Like many of us, I’ve been thinking a lot about Steve Jobs the last few days — thinking about the man and his legacy. I’ve been having some trouble even understanding the way I feel, let alone being able to put it into words. Lots of folks have asked me what I think, and have been surprised that I…
Pure CSS Share Buttons by @joshuanhibbert
New York City (via nastycop420)
I needed a way to write little programs on the iPhone and while C64 BASIC is neat, I forgot almost everything about it. I am actually pretty good at writing JavaScript code though. Executing javascript: URLs in safari is not a very comfortable solution. So I decided to write a little JavaScript…
