Blog archive: Design
I've just ordered some new business cards from moo.com and as always, its a joy to use such a well-designed and thoughtful interface.
There's too many things about this website that I love to list here, but the thing that really struck me this time was in the automated emails. The confirmation email you get when you place an order begins with:
Hello
I'm Little MOO - the bit of software that will be managing your order with us. It will shortly be sent to Big MOO, our print machine who will print it for you in the next few days. I'll let you know when it's done and on its way to you.
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18 December 2009
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It's amazing the little details your mind sometimes fixates upon when you're deeply into an intense coding phase. I'm currently building a news aggregator interface, and just can't make a seemingly trivial decision regarding headline typography.
The issue is all about widows - single words that appear on their own when text wraps onto multiple lines. Design-wise, these are bad. So I've been using the rather nifty typogrify extension to Django that makes it very simple to replace the final space in a block of dynamic text with a " " so you don't need to worry about the final word wrapping onto its own line.
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13 February 2009
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It took a few months, but I finally got freshly-minted versions to complete the jigsaw. I really quite like the new "tails" designs.
17 December 2008
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Design
24ways is back again this year, and already has some varied and useful tips and tricks for developer/designers.
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08 December 2008
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Design
The Design Museum is generally a good way to spend an hour or two, and will often provide a little bit of inspiration or extra motivation. Their current exhibition about Richard Rogers Architects is one the of the best they've had for a few years - full of incredible architectural models and renderings of some of the world's most impressive structures.
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08 August 2008
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I've just bought myself some new pencils and quite like these little twisty things on the barrel. It lets you indicate what type of lead you have loaded the pencil up with. I'm a standard HB kinda guy nowadays, but these would have been very useful in my engineering days, when I'd switch to a 2H for particularly difficult tasks.
15 January 2008
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