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 // 01.13.2012 // 4:07 PM // 0 Comments

    Android Doubles Down on Design

    Khoi Vinh on Android’s recent efforts to not only embrace design, but engender a design culture where one doesn’t currently exist.

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  • Link // 10.12.2009 // 8:37 AM // 0 Comments

    Restoring Spring to iPhone Springboard

    Bruce Tognazzini has some ideas for improvements to Springboard (the app that runs what you probably call your iPhone’s “home screens”). Not exactly thrilled with his visual design, but from a usability perspective, most of these make sense. A good read.

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  • Link // 02.18.2009 // 10:28 AM // 0 Comments

    Nick Finck

    My good friend (and boss) Nick has launched a new version of his site, and it looks great. He worked with (other good friend) Matt Brown on the design.

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