The Lorax and Company
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My Scary Grinch Face
Cat in the Hat, Dr. Suess and My Girls
Think Critical: Layered Glass, The Nothing UI
Think Critical: Layered Glass, The Nothing UI
iOS 7 is not so much a blank canvas as it is an empty space waiting to be filled. The only thing the new design language says you can’t do is make UI’s the way developers have been making them for the last six years.
stratēchery by Ben Thompson | Friction
stratēchery by Ben Thompson | Friction
Change is guaranteed, but the type of change is not; never is that more true than today. See, friction makes everything harder, both the good we can do, but also the unimaginably terrible. In our zeal to reduce friction and our eagerness to celebrate the good, we ought not lose sight of the potential bad.
We are creating the future, and “better” does not win by default.
Progressive enhancement is still important – JakeArchibald.com
Progressive enhancement is still important – JakeArchibald.com
Jake Archibald provides plenty of reasons and rationales for progressive enhancement
Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web
Achieving good legibility and readability on the Web
Nice tips for well polished web typography
Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead. – That Emil
Progressive Enhancement: Still Not Dead. – That Emil
Emil Björklund explains why progressive enhancement is still important
NewNet-Soft – CSS Typography cheat sheet
NewNet-Soft – CSS Typography cheat sheet
Some advanced techniques for web fonts
Grounds Zero: A Starbucks-Free Italy
Grounds Zero: A Starbucks-Free Italy
A few days ago, upon noticing something while traveling, I posed a question on Twitter: Are there really no Starbucks in Italy?
Several folks responded that there are indeed no Starbucks in Italy — which still blows my mind. And a few sent the link above full of interesting details as to why not — at least not yet.
Worth noting: were it not for Howard Schultz sitting at a cafe in Milan while on a business trip in 1983, there would be no Starbucks as we know it today.