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 // 12.29.2010 // 11:13 AM // 2 Comments

    URL Design

    Good piece. Also, if your development platform doesnt let you have full control over the design of your URLs, get a new one.

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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 // 12.05.2008 // 8:04 AM // 1 Comment

    Bryan Zmijewski: User Experience Design Does Not Exist

    > Designers need to stop thinking that they’re creating experiences. They’re allowing them to unfold with sound design decisions.

    I’m not 100% sure I agree with this yet, but it’s certainly a fresh and interesting look at user experience. Give it a read.

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  • Link // 08.27.2008 // 8:37 AM // 0 Comments

    Ubiquity for Firefox

    The latest from the amazing Aza Raskin, Ubiquity for Firefox is sort of a Quicksilver for your browser. Definitely cool stuff.

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  • Link // 04.10.2008 // 11:53 AM // 1 Comment

    Sarah Harrison: things that confuse me

    My good friend Sarah Harrison (aka sourjayne) has started a blog about her UX research and thoughts. Good stuff so far. Check it out!

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