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June 18, 2014
Creative Cloud and the New Adobe
Earlier today I went to Adobe’s Creative Cloud 2014 event, which they billed as their biggest single day of product announcements ever. I was invited based on my friendliness with the Behance team, who are now a part of Adobe. (Full disclosure: for some months now I’ve been working with that team on some exploratory…
June 17, 2014
Choplin
German type designer René Bieder’s typeface Choplin is the latest release in Font Fabric’s continual string of free fonts. For the low, low price of no dollars you get two weights, but for the introductory price of US$35 (through 26 Jul), you get eighteen total weights as well as old style and tabular numerals, case…
Why Use Facebox?
One question my friend Matt and I get frequently with Facebox, the pack of fifty royalty-free user avatars that we made last year, is “Why would I buy Facebox when I can just grab pictures from the Internet for free?” Here is one reason, pointed out to me by Andy Baio: TaskRabbit posted a new…
The Five Dollar Logo
Designer Sacha Greif takes the five dollar-per-logo service Fiverr for a spin and writes about the experience. He created a fictional company and wrote a short brief that three designers on Fiverr responded to. The results are about what you’d expect. It’s obvious to me now that the $5 promise of Fiverr is more of…
June 16, 2014
Nomad Clip
Peripherals manufacturer Nomad is doing some unexpected things with USB cables. First came their Nomad Key, which combines USB and Lightning connections into a short, compact, resilient cable that you can clip onto your key ring. Now the company is releasing its Nomad Clip, which integrates a USB/Lightning cable into a carabiner. More info at…
June 15, 2014
Dad Hoc
Later this year, in August, my daughter will turn five years old, which also means that I’ll mark half a decade of being a father. I’ve learned a lot about parenthood in that time, about what it takes to be responsible for keeping someone else alive and happy and making sure all that all her…
June 13, 2014
IXS Enterprise
Fantastical but apparently plausible conceptual images of a faster-than-light speed spacecraft that NASA is planning, rendered by artist Mark Rademaker in collaboration with the space agency’s Dr. Harold White. There’s a nice write-up in this article at The Verge, and full-sized images are available at Rademaker’s Flickr. +
Don’t Text While Driving
This public service announcement from Volkswagen was run in a Hong Kong movie theater. It’s extremely clever in using two media channels to re-create the perils of texting while driving. It reminds me a bit of the famous reactions to “The Great Train Robbery” in 1903, when audiences flinched at a gunman shooting directly at…
June 12, 2014
Designing Products for Existing Behaviors
The alternate title for this post is “Lessons from Mixel That We Applied to Kidpost.” It’s longish. The best bit of feedback that we’ve gotten to our Kidpost public beta is the recognition that Kidpost aims to be extremely compatible with—even deferential to—existing user habits. When people express their delight with that fact, it makes…
The First Picture Show
Larry Fahey blogs about the movies that he watches with his children at The First Picture Show. Just because kids will sit through the same movie a dozen times doesn’t mean they should. And just because they’re excited to see the movies advertised on the sides of buses doesn’t mean that’s all they should watch.…
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