When I first moved to the heart of the web world in SOMA a year ago today I wasn't really thinking too much about the boom and the bust that had gone on out a few years ago. I was fresh from freelancing in New York, and as an independent had not suffered the bust. I had several contracts with bigger firms and the work just kept coming.
AJAX Slideshow
It resizes, it transitions, it fades in and out and it's not flash! The new AJAX slideshow on the homepage of my site comes to you courtesy of Scott Upton at Uptonic. This smooth, easy to use delight, is a great toolbox addition, for anyone who considers themselves part of the new breed of AJAX designers and developers.
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Saturday, August 13, 2005
Personas
Bapu, Peaches, Onyx - these are the names of the employees we met today at an organic grocery my girlfriend and I frequent. In fact, all of the people that work there seem to have an interesting names. Recently my girlfriend asked Onyx if that was his real name. Onyx responded, "it's not my official name, but I'm REALLY Onyx".
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Friday, August 12, 2005
Max’s Photo Tips
As a web designer I sometimes work with bad photographs (from clients) every day. After doing this for nine years I've come up with three simple suggestions that someone who wants to shoot photographs can try.
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Thursday, August 11, 2005
The Fade Anything Technique
Remember the page curl? How about graphical rounded corners, and of course the current omni-present background gradient? Well, here comes the fade. While this is not a new subject since Basecamp came out but, the The Fade Anything Technique (FAT) will make this very interesting technique accessible to everyone who designs websites.
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
San Francisco Cab Drivers
Whether your cabbie has a shaved head and is playing loud smooth jazz, or he just came back from Greece and is giving you a diatribe on the Iranian nuclear issue from the European perspective, you must love SF cabbies.
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Max Kiesler is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder
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