Jeff Croft

I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.

Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, 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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  • Blog entry // 01.16.2012 // 2:51 PM // 17 Comments

    Forest, trees, and acko.net

    Few people can take the fun out of something quicker than an over-zealous user experience nerd.

    Over the weekend, I came across Steven Wittens’ blog acko.net. If you read Steven’s About Page, you’ll discover that he’s a programmer who likes to “build and design cool pieces of technology.” And that’s exactly what he’s done with the latest version of his personal site. The entire UI is done in 3D, using Javascript, CSS, and not a single image. In order to build it, he had to first build his own 3D scene editor for Three.js. The end result is a mind-bending UI that not only animates perspective changes on each individual page as you scroll, but also neatly uses the HTML5 pushState API to animate changes from page to page. The whole thing is responsive, and gracefully degrades for smaller screens and browsers without support for the 3D goodness.

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  • Link // 05.04.2009 // 11:28 AM // 0 Comments

    360° MP3 player UI demo (SoundManager 2)

    Really great Canvas + JS audio player.

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  • Link // 10.27.2008 // 8:10 AM // 1 Comment

    typeface.js

    sIFR-alike, written in JavaScript using canvas. Looks pretty nice at a glance, if not as developed as sIFR. It’s certainly unfortunate that we still have to use these kind of hacks, but as long as we do, I’ll keep noting them here.

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  • Link // 09.29.2008 // 8:05 PM // 0 Comments

    Raphaël: vector graphics JavaScript library

    I got to chat with Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of Raphaël, at Web Directions South, and I was impressed with both him and his work. This JavaScript library is Really Smart Stuff™. I don’t think there’s any doubt that SVG, Canvas, and VML are part of the future of web graphics, and Raphaël is making it possible to use them today. Awesome.

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