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.

Filter content
Feed

Items tagged weather

  • Link // 01.19.2012 // 10:31 PM // 0 Comments

    Critics of Seattle in snow: Shut the hell up

    Alternate headline: “Stop making fun of us Northwesterners for being pussies.”

    Visit
  • Photo // 02.11.2009 // 7:23 AM // flickr

    Biggest. Snowflakes. Ever!

  • Link // 12.24.2008 // 9:44 AM // 3 Comments

    Seattle P-I: It’s time to get angry about city’s response to snow

    I agree completely with columnist Joel Connelly. I realize Seattle doesn’t get snow often, but the way eight inches of snow has paralyzed the city over the past week is, frankly, ridiculous. There was plenty of warning for the storm. There’s little excuse for the city not having been prepared, and there’s no excuse for roads like 34th street still not having been cleared, a week later. Seattle is the farthest-north major city in the United States, and despite what Seattlites will claim, it’s not coastal. It’s 100 miles inland. Is it really that unrealistic to imagine it could get eight inches of snow?

    Visit
  • Link // 08.26.2008 // 5:26 PM // 1 Comment

    Las Vegas Sun Weather

    Really nice design work on The Las Vegas Sun’s new weather page. And of course, I’d be remiss to not point out that it’s Ellington and Django-powered. ;)

    Visit
  • Link // 10.26.2007 // 10:04 AM // 3 Comments

    Cumul.us: The wisdom of clouds

    Ben Tesch, one of several great web designers and developers just across the lake at MSNBC.com, is about to launch Cumul.us, a site which will aggregate weather data and use crowdsourcing to try to make better weather predictions than the experts. Who knows if it’ll work, but it sounds like a killer idea to me, and I can’t wait to see it in action.

    Visit
  • Link // 09.04.2007 // 10:47 AM // 3 Comments

    KING5.com: Video of lightning in Seattle

    There was lightning in Seattle last night. Not impressive lightning, mind you. Just plain-jane, boring-ass lightning. And yet today, KING5 TV has a video of it on their site. It’s big news. That cracks me up. I seriously think most long-time Seattleites wouldn’t last through one Kansas storm without running for underground shelter.

    Visit
  • Link // 08.20.2007 // 3:29 PM // 0 Comments

    Seattle, WA, gets 36 inches of rain per year. The US average is 37.

    Also from BestPlaces.net’s Seattle page: “Snowfall is 11 inches. The average US city gets 25 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 155.

    On average, there are 152 sunny days per year in Seattle, WA. The July high is around 75 degrees. The January low is 37. Our comfort index, which is based on humidity during the hot months, is a 72 out of 100, where higher is more comfortable. The US average on the comfort index is 44.”

    Interesting.

    Visit
  • Link // 07.17.2007 // 8:02 AM // 0 Comments

    China hopes to use rockets to keep Olympics dry

    “The weathermen in Beijing (have) plans to fire rockets to disperse rain clouds, an experiment aimed at securing more sunshine during the 2008 Olympics.”

    As I’m moving to a rainier climate in a week and a half, I thought I’d bookmark this for future reference.

    Visit
  • Link // 12.19.2006 // 8:57 PM // 0 Comments

    Nintendo Wii’s Weather Channel

    I’m a bit surprised to see Nintendo play this so straight. I figured they’d do it in typical cutsey fashion, with your Mii acting as the talking head or something. But it’s clean, straight-forward, and looks well-done. Can’t wait to play with it when my Wii arrives at my house tomorrow.

    Visit
  • Photo // 02.13.2006 // 5:07 PM // flickr

    49 News weather homepage

  • Photo // 02.13.2006 // 5:07 PM // flickr

    49 News weather homepage

  • Link // 09.02.2005 // 6:56 PM // 0 Comments

    What if Hurricane Ivan Had Not Missed New Orleans?

    An astonishingly-accurate “what-if” scenario about a category 4/5 hurricane hitting New Orleans, written in November of 2004.

    Visit
  • Link // 01.14.2005 // 4:57 PM // 0 Comments

    Tsunami moves North Pole, shortens daytime

    I find this pretty facinating. Apparently the north pole moved about an inch with the tsunami. Wild stuff.

    Visit
  • Link // 01.12.2005 // 4:59 PM // 0 Comments

    Accidentially Kansas

    Very cool set of photos depicting our unpredictable weather.

    Visit
By content type
Feed
Other tags in these items