In entrepreneurship, it’s call pivoting; in politics, it’s being realistic; in relationships, it’s compromise, but across the board there’s a difference of intent, that changes whether you’re going at it with everything you’ve got or hedging your bets with one eye on leaving.
Adobe Photoshop has become quite the central player is a wide variety of industries. From photographers to digital artists, graphic designers, web developers, even video production and CG, it really is a tool that crosses boundaries.
Best settings for iOS 7 in 10 easy steps You’ve done it! You mustered up enough courage to hit the Software Update button and your iPhone looks like a bowl of rainbow soup.
Oh no, it’s another article starting with an iPhone 5S reference! The iPhone 5S camera is finally doing what camera geeks have been yelling about over the last few years: improving the sensor and image signal processor without fussing about the final megapixel output.
There’s a lot of pride that comes with being the best at something. We love records so much, we even start making them super specific so they become harder to trump.
We often judge a fair price for something based on the lowest we could pay for it. Anything above that is premium and must come with justification.
Amidst a lot of inspirational discourse is a common backbone: that failure is a stepping stone to success. It’s been said tonnes of times and is an integral part of every ’successful’ story: the thousand’s of times that I failed is the reason that I succeed.
I started out on the web like most front-end devs: fiddling around. The web is beautiful because the front-end is open source by default–take any web page, and with a browser and notepad, you can take it apart and rebuild it.
Front end development has come a long way from the days of Photoshop comps that were sliced into little bits and sprite-sheeted for rounded corners, boxes that broke grids and drop-shadows.
There are essentially two types of products or services: those that scale easily, and those that don’t. India has a vast amount of people and a dire need for solutions to scale, however it most needs services that can’t effectively do that.
The attributes of a product on which it is marketed, are often not the best, but the most tangible and easiest to put into words.
We have expanded, and the newest member of our team is our writer: Mana. Mana has written ad copy and newspaper articles, and now jumps headfirst into the content creation for our clients on the web.
We just went through renovating our office space: cut our large table in half to make room, rewired to reduce stray cables, giant whiteboard, better lighting and cooling… the space you work in is important, and improvement is never complete.
I just watched an hour long Discovery show about small doughnut shops around America: the so-called ‘best’. They weren’t giant corporations of course, but small shops, run by brothers, or families, or friends… handed down through generations.
Personal computing has come a long way in our short lives: as kids we happily typed commands into consoles, complete with ordered optional arguments and were riveted to the resulting gloriousness of Moon Buggy, Space Invaders, and the absolute kingpin: prince.exe
When we were doing our first ‘creative’ endeavours in high school–essays, paintings, poems–there was a large focus from the very beginning on originality. We were told to try and be original, discouraged from copying, and rewarded for uniqueness, even in its most basic forms.
Media queries are doing a great job giving CSS feedback on the size of the browser window, allowing you to rearrange and organise for different screen sizes.
A lot has been written about “asking your web designer the right questions” before you hire him / her. But flip that around for a bit – Is your web designer asking you questions?
A couple of weeks back, Ashim and I chanced upon Take Charge, an initiative by HasGeek, as part of their Meta Refresh conference. And it was perfect, it was exactly what we were planning to do!
Don’t take that literally! Of course there is a Homepage – but are your ‘users’ really hitting your homepage as much as you thought they would?
The web is changing–it’s happening fast. And with that amount of change comes the need to keep abreast, learn about all the shiny new things it can do, the new words people use to describe it all, and quickly use it in your business whether you need it or not.
There has been a debate raging for quite a while now: Should designers know how to code? So far, I’ve stood on the side of: designers should know about the tech they are using to know its potential and use it well.
This buzzword has been doing the rounds quite a lot recently: user-centred design. It’s seems like a term created solely to allow some quote-padding, because if you’re not building for your user, who are you building for at all?
I browse around the web a lot, and more often than not, want to quickly jump between my desktop and my phone. Either I’ll be chatting, or over SMS, in the middle of composing an email or the lights cut out and I hadn’t finished reading.
I’ll always remember two small things I read as a child. I have no clue where I read them, but they’ve had immense impact on everything since then.
As a freelancer I’ve had to wear quite a few different hats: I’m a web designer to start with, I do a lot of Flash programming, I write content where required, I’ve had to learn basic HTML markup and server-side languages so I know what’s going on behind the scenes, I’m a client to my service providers, a service provider to my clients, a consultant to other studios and a team member to whoever I’m working with at the time.
Mince nothing: We’re turning into robots. It’s happening, and logically, it makes a lot of sense: better efficiency, less thinking and always someone else to blame.
I am at a computer most of my day; it’s been the norm for over a decade now. Three years ago, I bought a Mac and never looked back.
The Internet has come a long way, and with web 2.0 breaching our holiest of holies, the Internet isn’t shared anymore. Your Internet is very personally yours, and mine is mine.
Everywhere I go, everyone seems to be hunting a bargain. This is not unnatural; there is limited funding at your disposal and you seek to spend it wisely.
Hitting double digits feels like an achievement, and this is the 10th version of this site. Truthfully, I’m not sure whether that’s a good thing, but the reason it’s gone through so much change is because I use this site as a lab for experimentation.
In keeping with the tradition, and being the geeks that we are, we just had to put up a “Hello World” post as the first thing ever to go on our brand new blog!