September 2011
5 posts
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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...
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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...
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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...
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