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Design for Convenience - A Pebble App Design
Pebble apps started off as fun and cheap tricks for a few minutes of amusement—now that the platform is evolving, it's time for those apps to start evolving and adding convenience for its users.
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Visual Design in the Browser
Wireframes and UI design seems to be making it's way to browser first, leaving the Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch work to the visual designers instead. However, a small trend is happening—moving visual design into the browser.
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Free Is Nice
There is a considerable amount of free stuff on the Internet— videos, pictures, apps, books, and tons of information. I've definitely viewed and downloaded my fair share of content, but I haven't really given much back in return. So I while procrastinating on a personal project, I came up with two things people might like to use. So now I'm putting them out on the web for free, along with a brief explanation of the process behind their creation.
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The Future of Tech is In and Near Our Hands
This is not a rant, but an imaginative rethinking of what the future of consumer of technology could look like.
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A Personal Site and Delicious New Blogging Service
I'm always looking for something new to work on in my spare time because I can't help just not being productive, even after hours of class or work. This new project started out as a way to test out an interesting new blogging platform I had stumbled across called Postachio and the process of creating a personal site/blog around it. But as the project began to take shape, it became more about working on a personal brand and creative site with a blog attached.
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The 3 L's of an Enthusiastic College Graduate
Location, location, location. There is work in the real world for fresh-faced college graduates, they just have to be willing to pack up their old dorm for the experience.
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Where are the Chief Creative Officers
In a world of CEOs, CFOs, and, even, CTOs, that does it take to accept the role of CCO for a startup or business? Is there even room on the top floor for another chief power?
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An Early Easter Egg Hunt
Just a quick post about something neat I pushed to the site.
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Summer Review & Plans for Fall
August has now reared it's ugly head, which means end of summer is near and time to prepare for a full class schedule once again. For this first of the August posts, I thought I would review some site stats from the summer and talk about the plans for Fall productivity.
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My Pixar Theory
There are many things to learn from the Pixar franchise, not just for filmmakers and animators but product designers as well.
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Stop Practicing, Start Performing
Practice makes perfect but what do you have to show for it at the end of the day. Why not put that work to good use and make something useful.
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Open Source for Everyone
The open source movement has been around since the Internet was a fledgling phenomenon and grown exponentially over the past few years as new tools were released, which made working with open source projects easier for the common computer user. As these tools progressed, the definition of an open source project has also changed to stand for so much more than code.
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The Conference Appeal
I attended my first, and certainly not last, conference about the web recently and it was one of the greatest looks at the industry I want to work in.
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Pure & Not-So-Simple
Learning how to develop with JavaScript can get muddled by the mass of libraries and plugins, so how does one go about learning plain-jane JS?
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Importance of Interaction
A brief summation of my experience with local meetups and my support for others to join in on the fun
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Driving Towards Success
A simple analogy I thought of recently while driving around to various meetup events
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Ignorance is Bliss
Just my thoughts about active learning.
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Hello World
My Hello World for Hipsterbrown.com