Category Archives: Design

Realistic CSS3 Buttons Redux

May 11, 2010 – 5:14 pm

A cou­ple of weeks ago I posted Real­is­tic Look­ing CSS3 But­tons, in which I tried to make awesome-looking CSS3 but­tons that required no extra markup. For peo­ple who like more code and less talk, the end of the post has the link to the demo. As awe­some as they were, they required an explicit width. This […]

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Realistic Looking CSS3 Buttons

April 19, 2010 – 11:06 am

UPDATE: I pub­lished Real­is­tic CSS3 But­tons Redux to make even bet­ter but­tons. A while back Mike Run­dle posted the ter­rific arti­cle Craft­ing Sub­tle & Real­is­tic User Inter­faces. He clearly artic­u­lates design details which make but­tons look real­is­tic and there­fore push-able. If you haven’t read it, go there, spend lots of time look­ing at his excellent […]

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On the iPad and Web Design

January 29, 2010 – 10:33 am

As usual, Apple’s newest cre­ation has pro­duced opin­ions. The rhetoric of those for and against it is pre­dictably strong and, occa­sion­ally, ridicu­lous. I don’t care to add my voice to the din. My atten­tion is more fix­ated on the fact that if the iPad is suc­cess­ful, we’ll have to say good­bye to a whole host […]

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Subsetted Fallback Fonts

November 12, 2009 – 9:18 am

I recently launched thatwasnotok.com, a humourous take on how to han­dle social un-graces. One of the fun parts of design­ing and build­ing the site was the free­dom to work with a font like Chunk with­out resort­ing to embed­ding it in images or using sIFR or Cufon. I showed it to Tim Brown from Nice Web […]

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That Was Not OK

October 21, 2009 – 1:39 pm

The Idea Have you ever found your­self in a social set­ting where someone’s inad­e­quate social skills cause con­ster­na­tion to every­one around them? Of course you have. Have you ever wished there was a way to dis­creetly tell them that their behav­iour is not OK? Now you can. That Was Not OK is here to help. Print […]

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