April 2010
11 posts
“The idea that humans, for all their technological might, could be put in their...”
– After the volcano: Earthly powers (via marco)
“Websites are looking like web applications that look like websites that look...”
– Naz Hamid, Stuck Between an App and a Website (via davidkaneda)
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Icebird for iPhone
Clearly inspired by Tweetie while winking at the heritage left by Birdfeed, Icebird is a smooth-looking Twitter client that you won’t be able to use without thinking “Oh, this looks like _______” about most UI details or UX options. But is that a bad thing? Here’s my take.
The Icon
Let’s start with the application’s icon. There’s no easy way to say it:...
"Premature Optimization Is The Root Of All Evil"...
Clearly one should therefore design a system with an eye to where the bottlenecks may be, and try to ensure the design has enough flexiblity to capture the optimizations that will be required.
This makes total sense. It’s not a BRUF (Big Requirements Up Front) approach, it’s just a design issue. You should invest sometime designing your software before you start building it. Just...
March 2010
6 posts
“Sass 3 introduces a new syntax known as SCSS which is fully compatible with the...”
– File: SCSS_FOR_SASS_USERS
I guess I’ll finally give Sass a try. I just couldn’t take all the syntax differences (and thus lack of productivity) for the few added bonus I was looking after… :)
PS: Nop, not an April’s Fools! You’ll never get that from this man right here…...