Weekend Reading – Santa's Brand Refresh

Design Objective Mark Spitzer: Consider mobile first as an approach to lead with simplicity #LeanStartup Trevor Lohrbeer (just in case you were wondering what I'm working on right now): "Sustainable growth comes when new customers come from the actions of existing customers." - @EricRies #LeanStartup Personalized

Weekend Reading – Better versions

Design Objective Crapshaming. Related, The Value of Content is the story behind TC;DR: What we’re witnessing here is the first wave of the second world pop-up war. Those of us who lived through the first one can only describe the horrors to our disbelieving children. This time though,

Weekend Reading — Tab Closed; Didn't Read

Design Objective Iconic framework is "a beautiful front-end framework for developing hybrid mobile apps in HTML5." Based on SASS and AngularJS. Looks interesting. Helvetica the Perfume Lines of Code How Authy Built A Fault-Tolerant Two-Factor Authentication Service. Sinatra, MongoDB, EC2, stuff like that. But more interesting is what

Weekend Reading – GoldieBlox

Design objective “If your design comes back from testing as perfect, you did the testing wrong.” — Jakob Nielsen Typeface vs. Font: Terminology Smackdown. TL;DR: In traditional print, the distinction is easy: a font was a typeface set at a certain size, weight and style and cast in metal. [but

Weekend Reading - Batkid saves the day

Design Objective Don’t cut corners when coding UI shows by example(s) how paying attention to little details can make your UI more pleasant to use. If you read nothing else this week, make it this post. To Design A Bottle. This 3 minute video illustrates what design is

Weekend Reading – Binary trees

Design Objective Top Hacks from a PM Behind Two of Tech's Hottest Products. First Round Capital articles are always a great read, this one is no exception: Get decisions made: You may not be the decider at the table, but it’s your responsibility to make sure a

Weekend Reading — Avoid Polio with this one weird trick

Design Objective A Plea For iPhones To Have A Safer "Car Mode". Interesting concept. I'd use care mode far more often than airplane mode. Responsive HTML Emails: a Different Strategy. Using a single layout, so you don't have to handle reflows, just resizing; complete

Weekend Reading – Code review by Congress

Design Objective SketchMine is a wonderful collection of SketchApp files from the design community. Smart Transitions In User Experience Design – a few ways of using transitions to improve the user experience. Make My Design Flat, the simplest "flat design" tutorial on the web! Users = Zombies: By forcing ourselves

Uploading images with Uploadcare

We needed a way to allow customers to upload a banner image that we can use on their branded pages/emails. The requirements: * You might have that image on your computer, or your Web site, or maybe Facebook alubm, or Dropbox folder * It should be as easy to upload as