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Portfolio Up

santiago — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:13:27 +0000

After a couple of weeks of digging out old work archives, reinstalling 10-year old apps, and finding representative comps, the Portfolio is finally up for you review and ridicule. Yeah, this was uncomfortable for me. You can tell.

This isn’t quite my complete body of work. But I believe the collection is a reasonable enough representation of the kind of design work I’ve been doing for the last couple of decades or so.

I’m not all that happy with the pixelated text in some of the internal systems featured, but the differences in the initial design and the final product were so significant in most cases that putting on the initial comps just wouldn’t do. I may still take out those entries altogether. Yes, it’s a work in progress. You can tell that, too.

I’ll be putting up more of my print work in due course. My earlier web work, though, you couldn’t pay me enough to make me own up to.

Web Style Guide, 3rd Edition

santiago — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:08:21 +0000

The 2nd edition of this book has been one of my go-to references when working on big web projects. The elements incorporated in the 3rd edition make it a definite must-buy.

That the full text is freely available online for easy reference is a huge bonus.

Cal Henderson’s Keynote: Why I Hate Django

santiago — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:06:01 +0000

Seriously hilarious.

Steve Jobs Started the Popped Collar Trend

santiago — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 13:23:51 +0000

Now we know what he’s been trying to make up for with all those shiny Apple gadgets

Microsoft unMouse Pad Prototype

santiago — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:08:47 +0000

I totally want one. Now.

Ted Neely – Still Rockin’ The Blazes Out Of It

santiago — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:26:37 +0000

The Survey for People Who Make Websites

santiago — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:17:45 +0000

Yes, I took it. And if you also make websites, you really should too.

Speeding Up Them Syncs – Disabling iTunes Backup

santiago — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:43:43 +0000

» For Macs / » For Windows

The Apple fix for this better be more flexible. Then again, they’re trying to sell us on OTA syncing with mobile Me.

Disclosure: If the launch hadn’t been such a cluster-frak and the service been more stable, I’d have at least gone for the trial by now.

Cleaning Up After Finder

santiago — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:37:46 +0000

Helpful post about those annoying .DS_Store files: http://tinyurl.com/6ph7rx — my media server’s littered with them it’s hella-annoying.

Not Dummy Enough

santiago — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:00:42 +0000

One place where the industry standard dummy text just doesn’t work: an International Organization.

And law firms, probably.