I’ve been wanting to get my kids’ names tattooed on me for a while. After having a bad experience with an artist, I decided to use 99designs.com for one of them and the results are incredible. Can’t wait to show it off, once it’s tattooed on me.
Tag: design
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Frank Chimero has a nice, OCD write-up on how he manages music. I’ve been using Spotify more than Apple Music lately and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to run across today.
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Frank Chimero has a nice, OCD write-up on how he manages music. I’ve been using Spotify more than Apple Music lately and this is exactly the kind of thing I needed to run across today.
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I’m a massive fan of the music and culture of Ghostly. They have an awesome new site. Really loving the design. They even have a blog post with the team that did the redesign that was super interesting. I particularly love the catalog numbers and archive feel of everything.
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AMA: Jason Fried, CEO and Co-Founder of Basecamp (formerly 37signals)
I’m a big fan of Jason and pretty much everything 37signals did and Basecamp continues to do. There are some great answers in this AMA.
AMA: Jason Fried, CEO and Co-Founder of Basecamp (formerly 37signals) – Designer News
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Daring Fireball: Steve Jobs at WWDC 1997
The way to build a great anything — a product, a company, a book, a blog, an app, a service, a movie, anything — is not to obsess over not making mistakes. That leads to paralysis. Try to avoid mistakes, sure. But recognize that you’ll inevitably make some, and create a culture and work ethic where mistakes get identified and fixed.
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It’s unwise and futile to try to shove iPhone interfaces and paradigms into the Apple Watch. Instead, design for what the Watch really is.
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I find it odd that we still train students to think that they’re just going to make things, versus that they might make a few things, but maybe a lot of their career is going to be arguing why something shouldn’t be made but still get paid for.
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Designers who can go deep in technology like a computer scientist, and who can also understand people like a social scientist, are the designers who can think and create at the scale of millions of users. They are the ones who can manage the shifting standards and technologies that seemingly change every week. They are the ones the world needs right now.
