06/03/10
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World renowned designer and friend Carlos Segura from Segura Inc. talks about design for the March issue of Indonesia’s Versus design magazine.
Most of Segura’s comments are applicable to many areas other than design if not to life itself. I particularly love the one I used for this post’s title.
Excerpts taken from segura-inc.com
A good design is nice to look at, but an idea makes you look at good design.
Design is not just a “visual” medium. It is a complete experience, one which draws emotion from intelligence and makes the experience a memorable one, which in turn drives you to act.
Clients tend to ask for what they want, not for what they need
(about pitching) I do not, have never and will never do free work. Period. It is ridiculous to ask someone to do this. No client that asks you to do this will do it for you. It is disrespectful, devalues our industry and the talent in it. People only value things they pay for. So, if they want your work for free, then they don’t think very highly of you.
Don’t let things happen to you. Make things happen for you. If you’re going to dream, dream big, it’s free.
Link: SEGURA INC :: News > Segura in Versus
12/02/10
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Seen this sign on a public parking in Barcelona today. I still wonder what the meaning is. 50% off without keys? 50% off with keys?
BTW I’ve always wanted to title a post Semiotic oxymoron.
11/02/10
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The guys over at IA just released a beautiful stencil for OmniGraffle for all your iPad wireframing and prototyping pleasure.
This is the first version of an OmniGraffle template for folks designing iPad apps. It’s not complete; we plan to update it as we’re working on our own designs.
link: iA » iPad Stencil for Omnigraffle
11/04/09
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Finally it’s gone live! The fourth design iteration in my blog.
Basically the highlights are:
- Readability: dark text over white background. Graphics and color gone.
- Helvetica, helvetica, helvetica: as much as I love Lucida Grande I found Helvetica to render pages on IE closer to the original than Lucida (blame the usual MSuspects).
- Large fonts: let’s face it, we don’t read blogs. We read feeds and if by chance we land on a blog we skim over the headlines. So I decided to make them really big to make your life easier
- Twitter and Facebook killed the blogging star? No problem. I integrated both of them in the blog. Twitter on the homepage and both in the lifestream section.
- Tweet this: as a Twitter lover (aren’t we all) I usually tweet blog posts I like. Here it can’t get any easier with the Tweet this post link in the header of each post. Look for the birdie.
- My Web 2.0 persona in my blog: Last.fm, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, my shared items on Google and del.icio.us are all shared in the lifestream section.
- Related posts: under each post you’ll find a list of 3 posts related to the one you’re reading. It’s impressive how the automated selection algorithm gets it right (courtesy of Yet Another Related Posts Plugin).
- Categories and tags navigation: at the bottom of each page you’ll find the blog categories. Not 2.0 enough? Click on tags and a nice tagclould will appear to satisfy the folksonomist in you.
Hope you like it.
20/02/09
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Most people make the mistake of thinking design is what it looks like. People think it’s this veneer — that the designers are handed this box and told, ‘Make it look good!’ That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
16/07/08
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Business Week, with the help of Don Norman, John Maeda, Khoi Vinh and Jeffrey Zeldman among others, just published an excellent article with the 10 commandments of web design.
Most of them will sound too familiar to you (content is king, flash abuse anyone?), but when Norman, Maeda and peers write something you’d better read it. Here are the 10 commandments with more examples and comments of my own.
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09/06/08
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Apple got so carried away with the launching of the new iPhone 2.0 that didn’t take into account the lenght of the headers in some languages. Bad CSS.
Snapshot taken with Safari on Mac OS Leopard.
31/01/08
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Here’s the error Twitter spits out right now.
Cool design as long as you don’t see it too often.
22/01/08
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Iconspedia.com is a wiki where you can upload/download icons in PNG and icon format. There’s not a huge collection yet but they’re all top quality. Here’s a sample of the Animals->Creatures category.
PNG Icons & Icon Packs Download | IconsPedia
02/01/08
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Take a vinyl sleve with a face on it, pose to match it, take a picture and send it to Yadogg.
More pictures at Yadogg » Vinyl Sleeve Heads
World renowned designer and friend Carlos Segura from Segura Inc. talks about design for the March issue of Indonesia’s Versus design magazine. 
