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 // 03.20.2012 // 1:32 PM // 41 Comments

    CSS preprocessors and “view source”: is output readability important?

    Earlier today, I stumbled across a podcast interview with one of my early web design heroes, Dan Cederholm. You may know Dan as the founder of Dribbble, but it’s worth noting that he’s been on the cutting edge of CSS and web design since the early 2000s — Dribbble is just the latest in a long line of manifestations of his talents.

    Anyway, the entire interview is worth listening to, but I was particularly interested in their conversation about Sass (starts around 56:20). I hadn’t realized Dan was using Sass, but I was excited to hear his thoughts on it, as it seems to me a lot of the old guard of CSS gurus have not taken to CSS preprocessors the way the younger up-and-comers have. As I was listening, I was surprised to hear my name was mentioned in reference to a recent post I wrote called How I’m Implementing Responsive Web Design. Turns out, they’d discussed my techniques for RWD with Sass in a previous episode with Chris Coyier (starts around 13:30), so I ended up listening to that, as well (The Industry seems like a great show…definitely check it out).

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  • Photo // 02.10.2009 // 6:44 AM // flickr

    At the (mt) party

  • Photo // 02.10.2009 // 6:38 AM // flickr

    Cederholm

  • Photo // 02.10.2009 // 6:35 AM // flickr

    Jina and Dan, beer tasting

  • Photo // 03.13.2008 // 11:41 PM // flickr

    Jeremy (with Cederholm in the background)

  • Link // 03.25.2007 // 6:26 AM // 17 Comments

    SonSpring: LogoMaid Rip-offs

    So the web design community is all up in a huff over this company, LogoMaid, who has crafted logos that look a lot like those from Apple, GodBit, and SimpleBits. My take? People should relax.

    Yes, these guys are rip-off artists. Yes, it’s pathetic and lame. Yes, I would probably be irritated if they stole my work, too. But, if you stop and think about this logically instead of reacting so emotionally, you have to ask yourself: how does this hurt Apple? How does it hurt GodBit? How does it hurt Dan Cederholm? Answer: it doesn’t.

    The kind of thing can only hurt two groups of people. The first is LogoMaid themselves, who clearly are going to have their business ruined over this. But who cares? They brought it upon themselves. The second is companies or people who have purchased LogoMaid’s work. These people were manipulated and conned into paying for something that could get them sued. They have good reason to be very angry, as LogoMaid — at the very least — has cost them money, and at the worst could cost them a lawsuit from Apple.

    But Dan, GodBit, and Apple are not hurt by this. Not one bit. So while it’s perfectly understandable that they would be irritated, I’d suggest they shake it off and relax a bit. You’re not really going to let a third-rate rip-off artist get you down, are you?

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  • Photo // 03.12.2007 // 10:57 PM // flickr

    Dan Cederholm introduces Andy and Jason

  • Photo // 03.12.2007 // 10:57 PM // flickr

    Dan Cederholm introduces Andy and Jason

  • Link // 03.01.2007 // 8:14 PM // 1 Comment

    AIGA redesign

    Wow, Happy Cog has been getting it done the last few months, huh? Most recently, they’ve redesigned the site for the American Institute of Graphic Arts, which is about as prestigious a client as you can get, if you’re a designer. Jason Santa Maria is responsible for the graphic design, Dan Cederholm took care of the markup and CSS, and Zeldman was the creative director.

    I feel like this move could start to help AIGA have more cachet within the web design community. They’re a great body, but they’ve always come off as not particularly interested in the web — this move shows that view may be changing.

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  • Link // 01.03.2005 // 3:07 PM // 0 Comments

    SimpleBits, again.

    Dan Cederholm has once again reworked his site design. It’s very pretty and was done very quickly. Color me impressed.

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  • Link // 12.15.2004 // 4:19 PM // 0 Comments

    Liquid Faux Columns

    Pretty clever. I certainly never would have thought of it…

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  • Link // 06.21.2004 // 10:49 PM // 0 Comments

    Web Standards Link Bonanza!

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