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I'm a 24 year old Scottish freelance designer (UX-heavy), developer(HTML/CSS/jQuery) and programmer(Ruby on Rails) from London, United Kingdom.
See more information about me, or see my Central London based Web Design and Development Company.-
If you want to make a business succesfull, it’s better to have a small piece of something large than a large piece of nothing.
Chris Elsworthy, Dragons Den
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Link reblogged from Maniacal Rage
Here’s the thing about Facebook that really gets under my skin: They are slowly incorporating the features from every other independent web application on the internet. This is not inherently a problem—companies get bigger and they begin to have the resources to widen their feature set—the issue is that Facebook doesn’t do these features any better. They win simply due to how many users they have. It feels like mass-produced mediocrity.
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We needed to build i18n for our latest client and this is a post about how we solved the search side of things.
Much thanks to Pat Allan for his help.
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The jQuery mobile design team is actively working on designing a unified UI system for mobile-optimized widgets and layouts, and architecting a new version of the ThemeRoller tool to support the new theme system. Follow our progress and join the conversation on the jQuery Mobile planning wiki (via Designs | jQuery Mobile)
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I’m really looking forward to this. Joey is probably my favourite photographer out there at the moment.
I don’t really know the proper way to word this, but I’ve got a documentary TV series coming out. Don’t worry, it’s not a reality show and I haven’t turned Jersey Shore on you. It’s a documentary about my life as a photographer.
The pilot will be airing on Ovation TV on September 27th, 2010 at 10pm. The show will also be syndicated later (no set date yet) by National Geographic worldwide, Access and I Channel. There are still networks that are yet to be confirmed. You can check out the Ovation press release here. Right now I am working on the official release, so if you don’t get Ovation, don’t panic. We will be releasing a digital download and DVD and a blog travel story that is causing me to decipher my messy journal writing and transform it on the computer
We’ve been working on getting the pilot finished for nearly 2 years, and now we finally have the air date. After some initial hype in the industry on the 1 hour pilot we shot, we just got commissioned 4 more episodes at the same length that will feature my shoots and trips in different places around the world. The good news about that is since it’s a documentary I don’t really have to do anything that I normally wouldn’t do, (except get mic’d up which is really annoying.)
(via Joey L : The Blog)
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I’ve quickly redesigned ZachInglis.com. It’s part of my “3 hour, redesign in the browser” jobs, as I did with London Made.
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I can finally announce that I will not be doing London Made alone and that I will be running it with the talented Jonathan Conway.
Although I will still program, I will be able to focus more heavily on designing while Jonathan will fulfil the programming side of the business.
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What with the recent dribbble drama1, I wanted to tell people how I appreciate criticism on my design work.
When I am asking people for opinion on my design work, I want full honesty. While I appreciate niceties, I want to know everything that is wrong with it, no matter how trivial it is. The moment someone can not tell me what’s wrong with my design, it’s perfect.
Another point to note though is that everyone’s tastes will differ and you will never be able to please everyone. One person may love a flourish, while another critic may hate it. Ultimately, you have to work out who your demographic is and what you believe.
Appreciate the time people take to give you criticism. Most importantly, take everything on board but follow your gut. You’re the designer. Do what you think is right and don’t be apologetic for it.
- I won’t link to it. I do not want to encourage hits to the offender.
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I am currently doing a lot of team based work lately; running the design and development on projects start to finish. I wanted to put up a site to reflect that. So I spent a few hours of a lazy Sunday making a quick something.
