It claims to be “A search engine with taste.” It’s a lot like Pinterest for only design, but it should be used for more than general viewing. The search function is, well, nice. Search for elephant or script or a color.
I’m always a sucker for classic wayfinding–the design that you don’t notice.
Q: Where do you get your inspiration from?
It is always the streets of Beirut. Not the way my city is now, but how I wish it to be. When I studied graphic design in Beirut, I was always frustrated by the low quality of available Arabic fonts. It felt as if this is a reflection of a much larger state of being, of everything that is not OK in our part of the world. And that was a state of affairs that was intolerable, and so I set about trying to make my environment look better, one letter at a time.
Somedays I wish designing and coding websites was just Photoshop/Illustrator and a code editor (I like Coda at this time), but it’s not. Once you understand how the whole system works (Best Practices are changing everyday in this industry…) and you work at a place that has clients based on relationships (therefore valuing quality over shipping bad product), it’s a varied list of technologies to provide optimal performance, social sharing, error checking, compiling, and general quality assurance. There are many of these lists out on the web. Mine is targeting the WordPress CMS, but should be applicable to most content management systems and probably most websites. Remember, it’s sometimes about removing a feature instead of adding one.
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“Truncation is not a content strategy…”
-Karen McGrane
Approximately 1% of visitors click on a carousel feature.
“If a Front-End Development team reports to Engineering, the team gets rewarded for solving back-end technology challenges. But front-end development is not about solving back-end technology problems. It should be about making sure a product’s user experience differentiates the product in its marketplace.”
Forget about consistency, focus on coherence.
The current limits of CSS and canvas are eerily similar to 1980/90s desktop publishing tools and games as the fashion and color palette arrive. Coincidence?
This is a showcase of what you can do with HTML5′s Canvas using the JavaScript library Processing.js. There are many examples of abstract patterns for you to view.
“Because if your audience does do one activity with their smart phone, it’s probably to check their mail.”
