Personally tailored WordPress development.

HTML development for startups.

What’s a Readlist? A group of web pages—articles, recipes, course materials, anything—bundled into an e-book you can send to your Kindle, iPad, or iPhone.

"There are many great type foundries around the world. It has been really difficult to keep up with the activities of every single one of them... so why not collect their information and make an online compendium? This is how we started this project."

Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language and serves as documentation, automated tests and development-aid - all rolled into one format.

"Few people talk about pricing in our industry, and for good reason. There's hardly a straight answer for "What should I charge?" It depends on many factors: the value of the project to your client, the amount of inquiries you currently have, the type of project, who the client is, the services needed, the amount of time necessary to complete the project, the amount of time you have available, and many more."

A (personal) blog of data sketches from the New York Times Graphics Department. Maintained by @KevinQ.

Handy quick way to make an arrow with CSS.

A daily email that brings it all back to you

"I’ve been asked to explain my approach to managing product development. This topic applies to individual designers and programmers as much as managers. The goal is not to take what we already do and do it faster or more efficiently. The goal is to have more information and flexibility in our process so we can make better decisions and better products."

On how Instagram feels so fast. Awesome.

"PASSAIC, NJ—Gavin Werdlick, owner of a chain of Passaic-area sub shops, would prefer a different font, sources at Byrd Advertising learned Thursday. "Maybe one of those fonts where it's all swirly," Werdlick told his advertising representative. "Then it would be all fancy-looking." Fonts previously rejected by Werdlick for his ad include Bureau Grotesque, Futura Condensed Light, and Bodoni BE Extra-Bold."

"One interesting alternative to floats that people are turning to more and more lately is to set the display value of an element to inline-block. What does this do exactly? How is it like a float? How is it different? Let’s dive in and see what we can discover."

"Have you ever wished you could get rid of those flashy banner ads? Well, now you can. AdBlock For Safari prevents ads from being downloaded, letting you enjoy a more peaceful web browsing experience."

Gmelius is a cross-browser extension that proposes a better and cleaner Gmail™ inbox.

Real-world connection simulator and bandwidth limiter.

"It is a recurring phenomenon that we tend to sort what comes in large amounts to be able to grasp it, for quicker reference, and to find it back more easily. Once organized, you don’t have to look at everything all the time but only consult the parts of your current interest. The vast world of type is a prime case. Grouping typefaces also breaks down the process of identifying them into a less challenging task."

HAND-SELECTED OUTFITS SHIPPED TO YOUR DOOR

Cue is a public domain gestural icon system which focuses on legibility and symbolic representation.

WHAT IS A FONT REALLY WORTH?
Despite the design differences between various typefaces, our valuation process determines the true value of your font based on the difference in usage and application.

The easiest way to handle zip files on your iPhone

Talkative replaces that stapled printout or download of your slides with a simple site and a url. By sharing notes and links as well as your slides, your audience will got a lot more out of your talk.

It’s called Instarchive, sign into your Instagram account and we’ll send your photos down
to your computer in a convenient zip file. It's quick and easy, we hope you like it.

"A little while back, I mentioned I was doing some research for the book about how images are downloaded when media queries are involved. To help with that, I wrote up some automated tests where Javascript could determine whether or not the image was requested and the results could be collected by Browserscope for review. I posted some initial findings, but I think I’ve got enough data now to be able to go into a bit more detail."

shutup.css is a custom stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular websites.

Great annotated legal terms.

Great annotated legal terms.

"To some users, this looks like a sellout. And that’s because it is. You might think the people crabbing about how Instagram is going to suck now are just being naïve, but I don’t think that’s true. Small product companies put forth that the user is a sacred being, and that community is all-important. That the money to pay for the service comes from venture capital, which seeks a specific return on investment over a period of time, is between the company and the venture capitalists; the relationship between the user and the product is sacred, or is supposed to be."

"Nowadays, the passion of design educators seems to be technology; they fear that computer illiteracy will handicap their graduates. But it’s the broader kind of illiteracy that’s more profoundly troubling. Until educators find a way to expose their students to a meaningful range of culture, graduates will continue to speak in languages that only their classmates understand. And designers, more and more, will end up talking to themselves."

"It takes a certain mindset to be able to disengage your emotions long enough to self-critique or even listen to someone else tell you how they would improve your work, without taking it personally. Truth is: most people can’t."

"Now considered one of the pre-eminent experts in the field, Mr. Martinez took a few minutes to answer a few questions about his design roots, font licensing and the future of design law."

Great piece on the Readability/Instapaper kerfuffle and on learning from the past.

"When you open up your tracking, the text will always push out to the left as letter-spacing is applied from the right. As a result, if you’re centering or aligning your type to the right, it will be a few pixels further to the left than it should be. If you’re just leaving it in standard left-alignment, you don’t need to do anything—browsers handle this situation just fine."

Beautiful and mesmerizing.

stylus.

Paper app for sketching, drawing, on the iPad.

"From his native South Dakota to LA, Brian Cummings has always had the knack for voices and a love of performing. Along the way Brian was mentored by the legendary Daws Butler of Hanna-Barbera fame. From there, his career took off, landing him national commercials, major promo gigs, & animation series. And what do Brian's many clients say about him?"

Maybe the best marketing to ever come out of Microsoft.

iPad and laptop felt sleeves.

Style guide round-up.

Stamen has released some beautiful alternative takes on map tiles.

Felt iPad sleeves.

"TypeButter allows you to set optical kerning for any font on your website. If you’re longing for beautifully laid out text that today’s browsers just don’t provide, this is the plugin for you!"

Responsive design is the real deal. It is not a fad. It’s a legitimate attempt to address the massive challenge of delivering great experiences to this explosion of devices and browsers. But don’t feel like it’s the end-all be-all of website construction. This aint religion. This is web design.

"Well of course not. It turns out it was just advertising. There was no higher calling. No ultimate prize. Just a lot of faded, yellowing newsprint, and old video cassettes in an obsolete format I can’t even play any more even if I was interested. Oh yes, and a lot of framed certificates and little gold statuettes. A shit-load of empty Prozac boxes, wine bottles, a lot of grey hair and a tumor of indeterminate dimensions."

Adobe® Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices.

Pictures of People Scanning QR-codes

"“Man, give it five minutes.”
- Richard Saul Wurman

A quote taken from an excellent post by Jason Fried about our tendencies of pushing back, dismissing other people’s ideas too fast."

"Today marks the 75th anniversary of H.P. Lovecraft’s death. From Stephen King’s It to “The Call of Cthulhu,” a survey of the 20th century’s greatest horror writer’s afterlife of influence."

"Books are digital. This is not, strictly speaking, true; but it’s about to be, with a few honorable exceptions. Already today, pretty much all commercial books are produced digitally, although the end product is a physical one: ink printed on paper, then bound and marketed and sold. Already, the selling may be done as often online as in a bookstore. Already, the same books are being issued more and more in electronic form – even if, as yet, the e-books are mostly very shoddy in conception and execution."