How to Approach a Design Responsively ⇾
Tito Bottitta gives one of the best overviews I’ve read on building a design responsively. He gives great insight into their team’s entire approach, from step one right to the end. Along with Trent Walton’s candid look at his own process, this piece resonated, identifying a few of the pain points I’ve come across on my own (on a much smaller scale).
Rhythm in Life ⇾
I quoted this piece in a recent contribution to the Read & Trust newsletter. In it, Seth Cain shares some great thoughts on work and rest.
League Archive ⇾
Launched a personal side project today, a little site for the gents in my football pool. I’ve been running the same league since 1995-ish and it got serious with the rise of the internet. We’ve got ten years of history in our CBS league and ten owners who have been pretty consistent in their involvement.
Building the site was fun and gave me the chance to use Dave Gamache’s Skeleton for the first time, as well as the jQuery Cycle plugin. But it was the trash talk I put in the team bios that brought me the most joy. Any and all feedback would be welcome and appreciated.
Go Pats!
Déjà Vu is your visual memory. Use the app by taking pictures of things you would like to remember. For example, products you see in a magazine, recipes you read in a cooking book, wine labels in a restaurant, Newspaper article, DVDs, CDs or event flyers. Each picture is a visual memo. A regular camera app doesn’t distinguish those photos of stuff from „regular“ photos. Déjà Vu helps people organize and structure their visual memos in an easy and effective way. It does this by a tailored interface for tagging and categorization and integration of image recognition technology.
Features
* Quick shot camera (allows faster picture taking)
* Image recognition integrated
* Syncs with cloud account
* Easy search (find your visual memos by keywords and tags)
* Map location (locate your visual memos on a map)
* Available on iPhone and Web
Free for up to 30 visual memos/month. Learn more at Kooaba. 
A big thank you to Déjà Vu for sponsoring the feed this week.
Jon Hicks on Creatiplicity ⇾
As I mentioned in the intro of the show, Jon was the first real designer I started to follow online, through RSS or Twitter. He got me hooked into the online life and so it was such a pleasure to talk with him one on one.
Starting this week, my site will be included on The Syndicate, otherwise known as The Web’s Most Influential Blog Sponsorship Network. This network has some of my favourite tech, design, and business writers including Shawn Blanc, Marco Arment, and David Sparks (just to name three — they’re all good). It’s an honour to have my name alongside these talented folks.
In regards to enabling writers to earn an income for their efforts, I really like RSS Sponsorships. They’re more personal. And with The Syndicate, it’s clear that the reader’s interests are given the same kind of consideration we did when launching Fusion Ads. The ads — and the products and services they point to — are relevant and of quality.
If you’re interested in promoting your product, service or company, visit The Syndicate.
I own xScope 2.5, but made the decision to update to xScope 3 immediately. This is an app that is so helpful, it’s one those things I notice is missing when I work on someone else’s Mac. I’m especially excited about the new iOS mirror feature.
The app is on sale for $19.99 for a limited time.
Disclosure: The nice folks at Jet Pens sent me some free stuff right before Christmas.
Full Disclosure: I’m already a repeat customer with Jet Pens, so my opinion is not influenced by free swag. I like the products I get at Jet Pens — I shop there because they offer items my local businesses don’t provide and I can get all the brands I enjoy in one place.
Short point of this post: The Kuru Toga is the best mechanical pencil I’ve ever used. I’ve seen others praise this device, but never picked one up as I had plenty of nice pencils already. But I was happy when Brad from Jet Pens sent one over.
There aren’t a lot of activities I enjoy more at work than sketching the basic building blocks of a new design. The Kuru Toga has taken over as my go to sketching tool. Lovely weight and a quality build make it a pleasure to use.
Episode 26 of Creatiplicity ⇾
I had the opportunity to talk with Shawn Blanc yesterday and discuss what 2012 has in store for him. No matter the topic, it’s always a pleasure to talk with Shawn. I doubt this will be the last time I ask him to be a guest on the show.
Wonderful, wonderful print that Andrew Austin shared this morning. He’s a swell chap and sent me over a handful of larger shots — thanks Andrew!
