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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October 2009

  • Link // 10.21.2009 // 10:33 AM // 1 Comment

    Web Dev App Reviews from the Pros – Part 1, Mac

    Fuel Your Apps asked me, and several other web pros including Dan Rubin and Tim Van Damme, what apps we code in on OS X.

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  • Blog entry // 10.19.2009 // 11:49 PM // 30 Comments

    Don’t tell me about your product

    Tonight, an interesting thing happened. A guy I don’t know contacted me via the contact form on this very site. I’m not going to the name the guy, his company, or his product, but this is more or less what he said:

    Hey Jeff! I just started following you on Twitter and I really like your site. I work at an interactive design and product company, myself. You tweeted tonight about something I haven’t heard of — what curious what that is. Thanks!

    Intrigued by this guy, who seemed genuinely interested in me, my work, and my social life, I did what any self-respecting web geek would do: I Googled him.

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  • Link // 10.18.2009 // 3:39 PM // 0 Comments

    MichaelMoore.com, now powered by Django

    Just a kinda cool big-name site that recently switched to Django.

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  • Link // 10.16.2009 // 6:07 PM // 0 Comments

    django-filter

    Alex’s django-filter looks pretty badass. Coulda used this while building 97 Bottles!

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  • Link // 10.16.2009 // 5:07 PM // 0 Comments

    django-sorting

    Not sure how I never saw this before, but it looks like something I can make great use of. It’s inspired by django-pagination, and works pretty much the same way, but for sorting, instead.

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  • Photo // 10.15.2009 // 10:17 PM // Seattle, WA // flickr

    Tech N9ne, Showbox SoDo

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    Restoring Spring to iPhone Springboard

    Bruce Tognazzini has some ideas for improvements to Springboard (the app that runs what you probably call your iPhone’s “home screens”). Not exactly thrilled with his visual design, but from a usability perspective, most of these make sense. A good read.

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  • Link // 10.12.2009 // 8:27 AM // 0 Comments

    QuirksBlog: There is no WebKit on Mobile

    PPK details the myth that is the idea that “WebKit on mobile is taking over.” His point, which is totally valid, is that while WebKit is indeed becoming the dominant rendering engine on mobile platforms, each of those platforms has distinctly different versions of WebKit, so the idea that if you build for WebKit, all of these devices will render your site the exact same way is a misconception. His point is well taken, if a bit dramatic. It’s true that there are subtle differences between each version, and it’s also true that most people don’t realize this. But, in the real-world, they’re “close enough” that targeting WebKit will generally get you a very similar experience on all these platforms.

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  • Link // 10.05.2009 // 10:51 AM // 0 Comments

    django-lean: A-B Testing for Django

    Very cool-looking A-B testing framework for Django. Would love to play with this, but it has some pretty ridiculous dependencies, such as South (which I don’t use). Would love to see something like this that was a bit more generic and didn’t require so much.

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