Design
Bag of Tricks
Professor Peter Elsea completely changed my view of what a person can do when he taught me that skill is nothing but a bag of tricks.
The thing is, just about anyone can express music to some degree. Anyone can make a picture, or cook a meal. It might not taste very good, but perhaps that’s simply due to a dearth of tricks in the cuisine bag.
Informal Contract
So it just dawned on me, after having spent yet another weekend on this project, that maybe there should be a cap on the time or the number of revisions allowed within the scope of the bid.
Oh wait, we do have a cap in our contract. So (scratching my head), why am I now working on revision #4,536,136? Oh, that’s right, because this is for the one client that we have for whom we did not prepare a formal contract for.
This brings to light a fundamental concept… Contracts are for people who think they don’t need contracts.
Photoshop Broke My Color
I’m on a Mac Powerbook. For months, I’ve been having trouble saving images for the web in Adobe Photoshop. What would happen is I would File > Save For Web and Devices… and find that many of the colors are de-saturated in the preview window.
What happened to my colors???
Design Resources: Icons, Maps, & Photography
We use icons, images & photography all over the place within user interface, web and software design. Since we seem to spend a fair amount of time searching for them, I decided to put up a blog that keeps track of what we find. Any of the crew is welcome to add to this – in fact please do.
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