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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  • Link // 01.18.2012 // 9:33 AM // 0 Comments

    Designing The Well-Tempered Web

    I get a little bit hard for any article that compares web design to music theory, and this one from Rob Flaherty certainly fits the bill.

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  • Blog entry // 01.13.2012 // 2:02 PM // 6 Comments

    On Smashing Magazine’s super-responsive design

    This week, Smashing Magazine, a truly great resource for web designers and front-end developers, launched a comprehensive redesign of their site, headed up by the ultra-talented Elliot Jay Stocks. Predictably, the site is beautiful, thoughtfully laid out, well-executed, and responsive. Like, really responsive.

    In fact, the site has six — count ‘em, six — unique layouts, split by five breakpoints. It’s quite an impressive feat to have built a design that adapts in so many ways based on the size of the viewport it’s displayed in. But I can’t help but wonder if we’ve gone over the top, here.

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  • Link // 02.24.2009 // 7:24 AM // 0 Comments

    Smashing Magazine: 9 Common Usability Mistakes

    Good stuff here.

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  • Link // 08.11.2008 // 9:39 AM // 0 Comments

    Smashing Magazine: Top Ten Web Typography Sins

    Probably nothing you don’t already know here, but they’re good reminders, nonetheless.

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  • Link // 02.26.2008 // 9:46 PM // 0 Comments

    Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples

    Smashing Magazine has a nice selection of website navigation examples. Some clever stuff, here. Nathan’s awesome playgroundblues flyout tabs get a special mention.

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  • Link // 08.27.2007 // 1:46 PM // 2 Comments

    45 Excellent Blog Designs

    Smashing’s list of great blogs, organized by CMS/framework, is notable for a few reasons:

    1. It shows that — at lest when using the popular featured tools — design is almost completely independent of CMS. The idea that “all insert CMS here sites look the same” is simply untrue and an unfair criticism of a particular platform.
    2. It has several great designs I’d never seen before.
    3. It has a small, but nice, selection of Django-powered blogs.
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  • Link // 08.16.2007 // 9:56 AM // 2 Comments

    80 Beautiful Typefaces For Professional Design

    Several great selections here, which include both classics and less-known fonts. A little heavy on the sans serif side, but still…

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  • Link // 08.01.2007 // 2:46 PM // 0 Comments

    Data Visualization: Modern Approaches

    Smashing Magazine features several great data visualization techniques in use on the web. I love this stuff.

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  • Link // 07.17.2007 // 9:12 AM // 2 Comments

    Exploring Design: Outstanding Start Pages

    Kudos to Smashing Magazine for highlighting some more unusual designs. There was a time — back in the heyday of k10k — when people strove for unique, immersive, engaging experiences that didn’t always follow all the rules of accessibility and usability. For many types of sites, that approach is still very valid. It’s sad how frowned upon this sort of experimentation has become ever since the web standards movement blasted into full swing.

    Stop shunning unusual sites and sites built with technology you don’t like (i.e. Flash), and open your eyes. You just may learn something.

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  • Link // 04.13.2007 // 9:30 PM // 0 Comments

    Smashing Magazine: Designing With Grid-Based Approach

    Smashing Magazine is quickly becoming one an amazing resource for web designers. They’ve been putting together these massive lists of articles, tutorial, links, and so forth about a single topic (in this case, grid-based design). A lot of good stuff in here.

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  • Link // 12.20.2006 // 4:50 PM // 1 Comment

    Smashing Magazine: 50 Beautiful CSS-Based Web-Designs in 2006

    JeffCroft.com included. Thanks so much, guys — a lot of great inspiration here.

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