David Mauro - Designer: Archive

Jan 31st

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Jan 29th

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Things we like: Drawcast

canvas: Drawcast is a rambunctious fun bundle of writers and artists who collaborate on Ustream to create drawings and stories. You can see some of their efforts in this podcast, playing around with Canvas shortly after we launched the private beta. They’re back hanging out on Canvas today at 3PM EDT, drawing and remixing in the Drawcast group. Come by and say hello! This is happening in...

Oct 8th

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An impressive OS X Lion Bug

If you’re trying to log into OS X Lion and the login prompt doesn’t seem to be working, don’t keep trying to enter your password because you’re probably just posting it to the Skype chat that you’re in. Yeah this happened. Everything was hidden behind the login prompt, the password input even had the blue outline indicating that it was taking the input and it...

Oct 3rd

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Designing a better color picker

Recently I took on the challenging task of designing a color picker for the Canvas remix editor. The pre-fab color picker we had been using was clearly not working out (most users did not stray from the default #F00 red). The problem is that many of the people who are using the remix editor have never even touched a photo editing program before, while others are professional graphic designers. We...

Sep 30th

Anonymous asked: dmauro, I love you. You're one of my favorite canvians. Question mark.

Sep 27th

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Metrics and Design

The conversation around metrics and design seems a little silly. As a designer my job is to make something that people will use. If something can give me a yes/no answer to the question of “does this design work better?” then why would I not be psyched to have that answer? If we’re talking about a question as precise as “which shade of blue do users prefer,” then the...

Sep 27th

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Taking a quick look at CoffeeScript

I have been sort of skeptical of CoffeeScript based on my limited knowledge of it for a few simple reasons: I don’t particularly care for the indented block style; the “human readable” style, while easy to read, is not as easy to scan; and I don’t feel like I need a layer of abstraction on top of JavaScript. But there are enough CoffeeScript headlines popping up on...

Sep 25th

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Sep 6th

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Aug 30th

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Jun 1st

Feb 7th

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yourpalmal: “Cat Calls” aka my first live...

Feb 5th

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Jan 20th

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Nov 30th

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Nov 30th

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Clients From Hell: How Low Can Your Logo? →

clientsfromhell: An anonymous reader writes in to tell us about the How Low Can Your Logo contest. In true crowd source fashion, participants compete to design shitty logos for Excellencico, “a global leader in providing a focused, broad range of services to a world-class, international, region-centric…

Nov 21st

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Nov 15th

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Nov 15th

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Oct 25th

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Oct 23rd

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Oct 23rd

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Oct 19th

Anonymous asked: describe your dream beard

Oct 19th

Oct 11th

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Oct 11th

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Oct 8th

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Oct 8th

Updates galore

Sorry for inundating my few followers with tons of stuff. I’m putting a bunch of work on Tumblr because I’m going to finally start using this account both as a blog and as a CMS for the soon-to-be dmaurolizer.com. No more lurking for me.

Oct 4th

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