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Food for Thought 16 Feb 2013 | 09:27 pm
This is my favorite website. I visit it almost every day. It’s not responsive. It’s not optimized for iPhone. It looks blurry on a Retina display. It doesn’t use the latest HTML5/CSS3 framework. It do...
A Typographic Refresh 3 Apr 2012 | 02:14 am
A little over five years ago, Greg Storey suggested Whitney for the SimpleBits logotype that went along with a previous brand update. I’m thankful he did, because since then it’s become a favorite typ...
Pears 8 Feb 2012 | 12:40 pm
Yesterday, on stage at An Event Apart Atlanta, I announced Pears: an open source WordPress theme for creating your own markup & style pattern library. I wanted to create my own database repository of...
Bulletproof Web Design, Third Edition 21 Dec 2011 | 06:07 am
Yesterday, a copy of my latest book arrived in the mail, the Third Edition of Bulletproof Web Design. The first edition came out back in 2005, and I’ve been revising it every few years. This latest ed...
My New Ride 26 Oct 2011 | 12:57 pm
A month ago I made one of the best purchases I’ve made in a long time. I bought a kick scooter. Not one of those aluminum things with rollerblade wheels where the handle is so short you have to hunch ...
New Work: Instapaper 4 Icon 18 Oct 2011 | 05:08 am
I had the honor of creating the new Instapaper icon thanks to Jason Santa Maria and his art direction. The new app is superb, and it’s out today! Read all about it from creator Marco Arment and Jason.
Adapted 20 Aug 2011 | 06:09 am
There’s no doubt that employing a mobile first, responsive design approach to a new project is a wonderful way forward for many sites. I think the most exciting thing about seeing these best practices...
New in the Shop: Amp Tee 24 Jun 2011 | 06:36 am
I’m happy to announce the release of the latest shirt to hit the SimpleBits Shop… the Amp Tee is available for purchase, like right now. The creative brief for this shirt would’ve gone something like...
Responsive Web Design: The Book 8 Jun 2011 | 02:39 am
Today! Ethan Marcotte‘s brilliant book for A Book Apart is available for purchase. You need to go buy it. Responsive Web Design is not just an assembly of technologies, but rather a new way of approac...
Imitation, Repetition, Innovation 3 Jun 2011 | 06:05 am
So I’ve been learning the banjo. At the beginning of 2011, I set out to learn something new—something that had nothing to do with pixels, browser bugs, typing, or angle brackets. I’m not calling it a ...
