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Some initial thoughts on the iOS 7 redesign
It’s been over a year since I’ve blogged, but today’s introduction of iOS 7 was enough to get me to do it. This isn;t a well-thought out piece, it’s just a bunch of observations and thoughts from the product’s announcement to my installation of the developer beta, and through about 30 minutes of toying around with it. For the most part, my comments are purely about the new design language, and not so much about new functionality (most of the new stuff from a functionality standpoint seems good, at a glance).
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This is mostly a test of some API integration I'm working on.
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Get yer back up off tha wall!
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Beautiful day in Seattle!
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Sharpee!
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RIP MCA
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Macklemore and Ryan Lewis!
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Not even a Thrift Shop has an excuse for selling these.
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I am here and you are not. Unless you are.
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View from my balcony, right now
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Ciroc with a twist. Vermouth is overrated.
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Because you can never really have too much crab.
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OMG GUYS I just got a photo of the Loch Ness Monster! And she's kind of hot!
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Now THAT is a roll.
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Soccer still sucks, but this stadium is incredible.
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Blue Angels from my balcony, 2012 and 2012…
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The now.
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West Seattle Water Taxi
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Boats lined up all over Lake Union, awaiting the Seattle fireworks show. We'll be watching from this angle (off our balcony).
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Sublime Text 2 Love
A bunch of nice tips and tricks for SB2
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Current status…
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Fluid Type, by Trent Walton
Lots of good tips from Trent on how to deal with type in responsive fluid layouts.
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HOLY SHIT. FROM THE GRAVE!
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Current status: FSM!
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How this site is built
I get a fair number of questions about how this site is built, especially with regard to the content filters and the location-based views. I just answered an e-mail along these lines and it got me thinking maybe I should just document it here, for posterity’s sake.
JeffCroft.com is built in Python, using Django. It runs on a typical stack, where Apache/mod_wsgi acts as the app server, nginx is the proxy serving static content, memcached makes things faster, and MySQL handles the database. But that’s not very interesting. What seems to be of interest is more how the content is managed conceptually. So, here goes:
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From our balcony right now.
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From our window right now.
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Discontent, by Jeffrey Zeldman
Jeffrey outlines many of the issues we face as web designers today. Much of Jeffrey’s work is focused around “content” and publishing — that is to say, sites which provide text passages for reading — and from that standpoint, i agree with everything he has to say, here. Really smart stuff. If you, like me, tend to be more focused on the application side of things than the publishing side, it may not apply as cleanly, but its still worth a read.
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The new Adobe CS6 branding
Facinating look at the branding and identiy work behind Adobe’s new Creative Suite.
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The Great Discontent: Dan Cederholm
Great interview with one of the people I respect most in this industry. Beautiful site, too.
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On Coda 2 and Diet Coda
Launching later this week are Panic’s new web development tools, Coda 2 and Diet Coda. I truly believe Panic makes the best software anywhere. Every Panic product is impeccably designed, works flawlessly, and is incredibly well-supported. They’re absolutely my favorite software shop, and they have been since I discovered Audion in 1999. That’s almost 15 years of making incredible stuff. Nothing to sneeze at.
You may know Coda, their Mac web development tool. It’s been around for a while. Much as I love Panic, I’ve never used Coda, because it never felt like it was aware of web developers who do something other than edit and deploy PHP files via FTP. I know over the years they’ve added syntax highlighting for other languages and they added SVN support, but it still always felt like it was designed for a previous generation of web developers, not those on the cutting edge today. For example, by the time they added SVN support, most modern developers weren’t using SVN anymore. I’ve always recognized it as being a good tool, but not one that I felt like I was the customer for.
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On The Verge, Episode 006: Damon Lindelof
Those of you who have been following me for a while will recall that I am and was a huge fan of the show Lost. I was mildly disappointed by its ending, but not to the degree many others seemed to be, and I’ve always felt like the fact that the ending wasn’t spectacular shouldn’t take away the six years of enjoyment that show brought to my life. Now, Damon Lindelof, one of the two main writers on the show and a ridiculously interesting guy to listen to talk, speaks to The Verge on their talk show and actually is somewhat specific about what really happened with the ending. Really good stuff. There’s also an extended version of the interview that I haven’t had a chance to watch yet.
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How To Choose The Right Face For A Beautiful Body
Nice piece from Smashing Magazine on typography in general, and specifically on choosing great text faces.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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