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CSSDeck
CSSDeck is a handy resource that's bursting at its seams with some really nice CSS3 trickery.
css  css3  design  gallery  tutorials 
13 hours ago
Ubyu
Ubyu is a service aimed at those who want to create and publish their own high quality bespoke books.
books  design  publishing 
4 days ago
Could A Change In Business Model Win Designers A Place In The C-Suite?
Fast Co. look at the business model approach utilised by Yves Behar/Fuseproject in which they partner with start-ups, take equity as payment and provide design service 24/7—365.
article  startup  design  business. 
11 days ago
InstaCSS
Instant CSS Documentation.
css 
10 weeks ago
Rickshaw Bags
Rickshaw Bags make cool-as-fuck™ bags tailored to carry your Apple stuff in.
rickshaw  apple  bags  laptop  ipad. 
10 weeks ago
Video for Everybody!
Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many browsers and platforms.
HTML5  video  Flash 
10 weeks ago
Fuck Yeah Made in USA
A tumblog that celebrates American made products. It provides a fascinating look at the process and craftsmanship employed by USA-based manufactures of quality products.
products  american  video  design 
october 2011
Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Jack Dorsey, Square - The Power of Curiosity and Inspiration
Square and Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey describes his early background and inspirations, the current focuses he keeps as a CEO, and his desire to create memorable experiences and solve problems.
curiosity  inspiration  entrepreneurship  twitter  square  video 
august 2011
Northern Ireland Newspapers Stats
Slideshow of NI Newspaper stats. Circa: 2009.
NI  Stats  Newspaper  Publishing  MA 
april 2011
Timbuktu for iPad on the iTunes App Store
Timbuktu is the first iPad magazine for children. It combines imagination and technology to display news and stories through the most advanced methods of education.
Timbuktu  childrens  publishing  magazine 
april 2011
Lending e-books: Internet business 101 | The Economist
The Economist reports on Amazon's brief withdrawal of API access to Lendle: "The brief outage demonstrates a fundamental truth about the internet: if you don't own the data you need to run your business, you're dependent on the policies—and whims—of the parties that do. Jeff Croft, Lendle's founder, says he will not make that mistake again."
amazon  ledle  elending  publishing  MA  business  books 
march 2011
Twitter Was Act One
David Kirkpatrick, a contributing author at Vanity Fair, tells the tale of Jack Dorsey's rise from a kid fascinated with maps, traffic, art and maths, to the co-founder of interaction based world-changing systems: namely Twitter (communicative) and Square (payments).
Square  Twitter  Dorsey  Inspiration  Communication  Payments  Traffic  GoDo 
march 2011
The 10 hottest tablets coming in 2011
ZDNet's Dignan and Nusca on the tablets of 2011.
tablets 
march 2011
Tablets in 2011: what to expect.
TechRadar UK examines how the tablet landscape will lie in 2011.
tablets  mobile 
march 2011
Writing sensible email messages.
Merlin Mann writes for 43 Folders on writing sensible emails.
email  productivity  writing 
march 2011
Natalie Goldberg: Tips for writing.
Excerpt of Natalie Goldberg's 'Writing Down the Bones' and 'Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life'. As referenced in 5by5's Back to Work with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin.
writing  tips 
march 2011
Adam Engst on iPad and ereaders
Publisher Adam Engst is interviewed on eReaderJoy about the iPad and other eReaders. Feb 2011.
ipad  ebooks  amazon  publishing 
march 2011
Showcase: Pop-Up Book in HTML and CSS
Eleqtriq showcase an example that creates a children’s pop-up book like experience using HTML and CSS.
HTML5  CSS3  Pop-up  Book 
march 2011
Bondo’s Brand Guidelines Documents
Bondo’s collection of Brand Guidelines Documents [PDFs].
Brand  Guidelines  Documents  PDF 
february 2011
Content Strategy and UX: A Modern Love Story
UX Magazine’s Kristina Halvorson dissects the role of Content Strategy in UX Design today.
MA  Content  Strategy  UX 
february 2011
ASDA supports Britain's bookworms with the launch of the £52 mobile library - Your Asda
"ASDA supports Britain's bookworms with the launch of the £52 mobile library."
Cheap  Ebook  EPUB  Tablet  ASDA 
february 2011
IT'S OFFICIAL: The Smartphone Market Is Now Bigger Than The PC Market
smartphone  mobile 
february 2011
New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015 [STATS]
In addition to forecasting more online shopping and showing the geographical distribution of Internet users, the study also shows a dramatic shift toward mobile web use.
statistics  mobile  web 
february 2011
Stephen Caver
An example of great responsive design.
responsive  design 
february 2011
What the iPad is Missing (No, it’s not a Camera)
Stephen Coles examines the state of typography on the iPad for The FontFeed.
ipad  typography  fonts  readability 
january 2011
Design Work Life » Spoonful of Sugar
Can design touch someone's heart? More on Leen Sadder's SVA Design as Author submission as previously mentioned on boruburns.com. Leen chose to dress up as Mary Poppins and escort umbrella-less New Yorkers across the street on a rainy day with an hand-lettered umbrella sporting lyrics to 'A Spoonful of Sugar'. She also provided her companions with spoons covered in chocolate. Damn smart idea.
Emotional  Design 
january 2011
Redu: Rethink / Reform / Rebuild Education
REDU stands for rethinking, reforming and rebuilding US education. Powered by people and technology, REDU is a movement designed to expand and encourage the national conversation around education reform by providing information and resources to learn, a community platform to connect, and tools and initiatives to act.
education  reform 
january 2011
Two spaces after a period
The Slate’s Farhad Manjoo on: Why you should never, ever use two spaces after a period.
typography  punctuation 
january 2011
Process: An Object of Beauty
Tamberhouse provide an insight into the design process they followed when designing the sleeve for An Object of Beauty, a book by Steve Martin.
Book  Design 
january 2011
Why You NEED To Get Up Earlier (And How To Do It!)
Peter Shankman on the benefits and practice of getting up early.
inspiration  routine  sleep  getting-up 
january 2011
Non Hover
How to build with a focus on touch-interaction.
css  ipad  ux  non-hover  tap  touch  interaction 
december 2010
Art Direction and Design
Dan Moll on the differences between Art Direction and Design, and how they compliment each other when combined in a strategic process.
design  art  direction 
november 2010
Type and Media 2010
This site is an archive of the work of the Type and Media 09/10 class.
typography 
october 2010
Econsultancy: The social media backlash
Danny Whatmough, a tech PR consultant at Wildfire, says "It’s time for social media marketing to grow up." Excellent article. Via / Standardistas.
social  media  marketing  business 
october 2010
iPhone Homescreen Wallpaper
Collection of Beautiful iPhone Homescreen wallpapers.
background  iphone  wallpapers 
october 2010
When it drops
When it drops helps to keep track of the latest movie, book, music and game releases. A handy web app by Ryan Sims and Nick Chapman.
books  games  music  movies 
october 2010
LiveView for iPhone & iPad
Mobile Application Design & Prototyping Tool.
app  design  ipad  iphone  prototyping 
september 2010
Blurb
Similar to MagCloud... only for books. "Make your own book. Make it great."
books  publishing 
september 2010
White Label CMS WordPress Plugin
A handy plugin to simplify and declutter what an Editor sees when they log on to the WordPress control panel.
WordPress  Plugin 
september 2010
Chevychase Design Projects
september 2010
Paul Lewis to head new Guardian special projects team
The award-winning Guardian reporter, Paul Lewis, is to head up a newly-created multimedia special projects team. Lewis will recruit a small team that will be charged with finding new angles on breaking news stories. This includes using multimedia and crowd-sourcing.
Guardian  Multimedia  Crowdsourcing  Journalism  Publishing 
august 2010
Seth Godin at Gel 2006 on Vimeo
Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them.
Broken  Simplicity 
august 2010
Seth's Blog: Moving on
Godin examines the cracks in the current corporate publishing model. Identifies avenues he wishes to explore when it comes to methods for spreading ideas and engaging with people. He wishes to figure out who his audience is and take them where they want and need to go.
2010  books  publishing 
august 2010
Staying Creative
A Keynote by Eoghan McCabe.
Keynote  Creativity 
august 2010
News Corp. plans national newspaper for tablet computers and cellphones
LA Times: "It's the latest bid by a major media company to build readership using new devices such as the iPad. The new publication would offer short, snappy stories"
iPad  Mobile-specific-content 
august 2010
HTML5 Boilerplate
Paul Irish and Divya Manian have developed a base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site — HTML5 Boilerplate.
HTML5  CSS3  web 
august 2010
Designing the new Campaign Monitor iOS icons
Jesse Dodds blogs about the his process and shares some helpful illustration tips regarding iOS iconography.
iconography  icons  iPad 
august 2010
Quixly
"Whether you need to store your digital products for customers or design and video comps for clients, Quixly's File Manager has you covered. With multiple file uploads, bulk editing and deleting, download tracking and more, File Management in Quixly is a breeze. Plus you files are stored on our servers forever."
digital  file  storage  management  ecommerce 
august 2010
Service design
The Design Council's guide to service design.
Service  Design  Council 
august 2010
Press the Magic Button
Derek Powazek writes about his usage of the 'block' functionality on social web sites such as Tumblr and Flickr.
Block  Social  Web 
june 2010
Launchlist
"Your one stop website checklist! Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large."
Design  Checklist  Launch  Pre-Launch  Testing  Usability 
june 2010
iPad On Commercial Set
Vimeo: "A quick video that shows how the iPad is becoming a viable tool to bring on set - as we know, scripts, storyboards, shot lists and schedules are always changing until the very last second. Being able to download this new material while on location - and being able to reference them (and other videos/reference photographs) on set is a great to have at your fingertips. It sure beats having a stack of papers or folders of images - that are somehow never around at the critical moment that you need them."
iPad  Commercial  Set  Mobile  3G  video 
june 2010
Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
Mr Zeldman highlights the ways in which the Stanza ebook app (on iPad and iPhone) currently pwns iBooks digital ass when it comes to readability.
Readability  Ebook  iBook  Stanza  Zeldman 
june 2010
MediaPost Publications Gartner: Mobile To Outpace Desktop Web By 2013 01/14/2010
"Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013, according to a new forecast by research firm Gartner."
Mobile  Web 
may 2010
Brain Traffic
"Content strategy plans for the creation, delivery, and governance of content. Better content. Content people care about. Content that supports your business objectives and meets your users' goals. It's a long-term fix for content problems of all sizes."
content  design  strategy  ux  ia 
may 2010
Danzico’s Text playlist
Build Conference 2010 speaker Liz Danzico, has followed in the footsteps of another speaker (Frank Chimero) by outlining her own Text playlist. I'll definitely be sampling the best of both lists and creating a text playlist of my own.
Danzico  inspiration  creativity 
may 2010
How Facebook And Twitter Are Changing Business Models, Shaping Brand Identity
Now that many corporations have mastered the tricky art of signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account, the next step is leveraging social media tools in a meaningful way that impacts your brand and your bottom line. Jeremiah Owyang, offers four laws of social business: don’t fondle the hammer, live the 80% rule, customers don’t care what department you’re in, and real time is not fast enough.
Twitter  Facebook  Business  Models  Brand  Identity  Leveraging  Social  Media 
may 2010
HTML5 Readiness
HTML5 Readiness, from the asylum run by Paul Irish and Divya Manian, shows how HTML5 support has evolved since 2008.
browser  readiness  html5  css3  visualization 
may 2010
The Newsonomics of copyediting value.
Ken Doctor on Copyediting in Newsonomics: "What’s copyediting worth these days? Of course, it used to be something we took for granted — like writing and design — just part of the journalistic process. You know, a second set of eyes, at least, on any story that would be published. There’s been a fair amount of craft skirmishing about copyediting, its role and its decline, over the last decade. I’ve been confronted this week by several recent “editing” experiences and data points, which have renewed my own thinking about editing, its value and how news people can harvest that value."
Newsonomics  Copyediting  Harvesting  Content 
may 2010
Text Playlist
"A lot of designers and creative folk that I know keep a morgue file, a folder of random elements that they find from old jobs that got killed, inspirational bits, torn images from magazines, and other scraps. I do a bit of that myself, but I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best writing on the web I come across."
creativity  inspiration  writing  mixtape 
may 2010
Sentences, paragraphs and chapters
"Four people may tell you that there was a typo on the third slide in your presentation. A generous and useful editor (hard to call them a consultant), though, points out that you shouldn't be doing presentations at all, and your time would be better spent meeting in small groups with your best clients." — Seth Godin
Seth  Godin  Strategic  Thinking  Advice  Editors  Mentors 
may 2010
Sleepover
Modern web sites for: magazines, writers, publishers. A San Francisco based studio specialising in providing content providers with fan-dabby-dosey websites and other related shizzle.
blogs  design  writing  inspiration  publishing 
may 2010
Apple Building Facebook Into iPhone OS
"Apple is building Facebook features into the latest version of its iPhone software, we're told by a plugged-in source in the mobile industry. These features could be announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7, when Apple is expected to unveil a new iPhone."
iPhone  Facebook  WWDC  Apple 
may 2010
Behind the Scenes at 48 Hour Magazine - San Francisco News - The Snitch
"This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours. The theme was "hustle," and they got 1,502 submissions from around the world. Their 60-page final product is now for sale online, and you can also preview the magazine's contents."
48HrMag  48  Hour  Magazine  Publishing 
may 2010
In Business: Press Under Pressure
30 Minute long BBC Radio 4 show looking at how … "Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day finds out why it matters... and how they are going about fighting for survival." Via Mr Murphy.
Publishing  Newspapers  Journalism  BBC  Radio  4  Business 
may 2010
This is You
"A piece that tells people about a great place to work, and reminds Herman Miller employees they've already found one." Fantastic animation. Just brilliant. I hope to establish a design studio with similar values one day.
Values  ThisIsYou  HermanMiller 
may 2010
Don’t Be Afraid of the S-Word
Uber fantastic post by Uzi Shmilovici on The 99 Percent blog. The subject: Embracing the importance of sales stratefy in your role as a designer. Brilliant resource/tips for establishing a sales process for my own practice.
Resource  Sales  Design 
may 2010
An Enchanted Alphabet
Hoefler & Frere-Jones Blog: "I have a special affection for decorated letters, especially the ornamented designs of the nineteenth century. You know the kind: they're chubby Regency typefaces, slab serifs or high-contrast ‘Fat Faces,’ mostly, whose surfaces are emblazoned with intricate patterns or pastoral scenes." Me too JH, Me too.
Typography  Fat  Slab  Regency  Type 
may 2010
Webkit CSS Properties
Comprehensive list of WebKit-specific CSS properties. Via Mr Gruber.
css3  webkit 
may 2010
Get Your eBook in the Apple iBookstore | Lulu Blog
Daniel Wideman of Lulu on how to use their service to get your eBook into the Apple iBookstore.
books  ebooks  epub  publishing 
may 2010
How to Make an eBook Anyone Can Read with ePub | Lulu Blog
Lulu’s AJ McDonald presents a how-to tutorial for the most universal eBook format: ePub.
ePub  Lulu 
may 2010
Andrey Ternovskiy’s Web site, Chatroulette.
The New Yorker profiles Andrey Ternovskiy, the 18-year-old founder of Chatroulette
Chatroulette 
may 2010
The real reason Apple is so innovative
Simon Sinek explains in 18 short minutes why Apple has an edge over its competitors.
Apple  Remarkability  Talkaboutability  Strategy 
may 2010
What iPads Did To My Family
"Tap, tap, tap"
ipad  family 
may 2010
The Death of Files
From Dustin Curtis, this passes the awesome test hands down: "Mere mortals don’t think of things on their computers as “files.” People think about digital representations of things the same way they think about real physical things: they think about photos, videos, text documents, articles, and people. A “file” on a computer is just a universal container for one of those things."
design  ipad  files 
may 2010
iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing
"iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems." — Jakob Nielsen
ipad  usability 
may 2010
Please Invite Me To Dribbble...
One man (Davy Kestens) goes to extreme lengths to get his hands on a Dribbble invite. It worked.
Dribbble  Begging  Pretty  Please  Invite 
may 2010
A good problem to have
Mike Davidson of Mike Industries examines the rise of Apple and fall of Microsoft. Their ability to provide awesome experiences and what their strategies mean for web developers in the mobile-web era.
Business  Mobile  Web  Apple  Microsoft  Developers 
may 2010
A Brief History of Markup
From A List Apart, the first chapter of A Book Apart's HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith of Clearleft. I've the whole book coming my way in June (pre-ordered). If the other chapters are as good as this I'm in for an enjoyable read!
HTML5  Jeremy  Keith  A  Book  Apart  List  History  Markup 
may 2010
Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web
"How traditional businesses who have moved to the web regularly undervalue their front-end web developers, and are worse off because of that." — Paul Carvill
career  front  end  developers  business 
may 2010
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