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 // 08.12.2008 // 5:25 PM // 3 Comments

    New: Podcast “conversations”

    This is just a brief post to let jeffcroft.com RSS readers know about something you may have missed: I’ve started a podcast, of sorts. Not so much a “show,” these are simple audio conversations between myself and other web designers and developers.

    Last week, I participated in a “callcast” on Kevin Fricovsky’s blog, How I Work Daily. A callcast, as Kevin calls them, is a relatively short, laid back, “call,” (performed over Skype) between him and someone else in the web industry that he records and posts. I really enjoyed doing it — Kevin was a great host and had great questions. For a long time, I’ve thought hosting a podcast could be fun, but I was unwilling to make the time commitment required to put together a smooth, well-produced show like This Week in Django or Boagworld. Kevin’s simple idea got me excited enough that I flat out stole it (sorry, Kevin!).

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  • Blog entry // 04.14.2008 // 8:57 AM // 27 Comments

    A brief word on my blog posts and links

    In the past couple weeks, I’ve received a few e-mails from folks wondering why my blog has been less active than in the past. The answer is pretty simple: I’ve been busy, and I haven’t had much time to write.

    However, I wanted to take a moment to point out that I post links almost every single day, and my “links” are different than most folks’ in that I write — sometimes at length — my thoughts, reactions, and opinions to the link in question. Also, I allow comments on my links, which is a bit unusual. In that sense, they’re basically mini-blog posts.

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  • Blog entry // 02.16.2008 // 6:28 PM // 99 Comments

    More details on the redesign

    Last night, when I finished up the latest redesign of JeffCroft.com, I was tired of being on the computer and didn’t feel like writing much more than a somewhat-flippant “here it is” message. Today, after a good night’s sleep and reading 50+ comments in response to the new design, I’m prepared to talk a little more in detail about what I’ve done. I’d like to tell you a bit about the design, the color scheme, why I didn’t use tumblr for my tumblelog, and the CMS behind it all.

    Let’s get started, shall we?

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  • Link // 02.16.2008 // 1:19 PM // 1 Comment

    Dan Rubin on Virb.com

    Woah. My good friend and Pro CSS Techniques co-author Dan Rubin beat me to a lot of the styles you see here on the new JeffCroft.com. I swear, I’d never seen his Virb before (I can’t remember the last time I logged into Virb)! I say it’s more proof that Dan and I are peas in a pod. :)

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  • Blog entry // 02.15.2008 // 11:12 PM // 74 Comments

    It’s brown, yo.

    Yes, it’s a pretty drastic change for me. Yes, it only really works correcty in Safari (get over it). Yes, I did it pretty quickly. Yes, this redesign also constitutes an entire rewrite of my Django-based CMS. Yes, it no longer starts with www2. Yes, there are parts that are still unfinished. Yes, it’s a bit of an answer to tumblr. Yes, I did hide the “powered by Google” logo on my maps (shhh, don’t tell). Yes, I’ll be talking about the new design direction more in the near future. Yes, it’s light on dark (get over it). Yes, the job listings you seen on the sides of blog entries are selected based on the content of the entry. Yes, the text is smaller (get over it). Yes, I’m anxious to hear what you think.

    Yes, I’m going to bed.

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  • Link // 03.04.2007 // 4:33 PM // 5 Comments

    Jeremy Helms

    Familiarish. To be clear, this sort of re-appropriation doesn’t bother me — I’m flattered to be an inspiration to someone, and Jeremy gives credit where credit is due. I just wanted to point it out.

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  • Link // 02.16.2007 // 7:51 AM // 5 Comments

    Frédéric de Villamil.com

    Familiarish.

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  • Link // 02.02.2007 // 6:02 AM // 0 Comments

    FeedBurner Awareness API Reference

    I’ve recently switched all my feeds over to FeedBurner. Turns out they have quite a nice-looking API for exposing the data they collect. I see more data mashups in my future.

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  • Link // 08.27.2006 // 3:12 PM // 3 Comments

    STOCK TEMPLE

    A very familiar live search on this site, which appears to be a “Web 2.0” stock market resource (beta!).

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  • Link // 06.14.2006 // 4:11 AM // 3 Comments

    Whalesalad

    I’ve been saying for a while that I am jealous of those guys who are constantly getting ripped. Well, whalesalad sort of makes me feel better. I definitely do not consider this to be a rip of this site — it’s quite well-done and definitely done by Michael himself — but it does bear a lot of resemblances. It’s nice to know I’m influencing someone. Check it out; it’s a nice-looking blog.

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  • Link // 06.23.2005 // 2:04 PM // 0 Comments

    jeffcroft.com on CSS Beauty

    CSS Beauty, the great inspiration site for CSS designers, had featured this site. Thanks so much to them!

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