Engineers are the magicians of the crew, who, with a few taps of their fingers, take the plans and the pixels and Voila! A working implementation. As a designer, how do you best keep up with their meme-savvy, self-deprecating, script-loving ways? Keep reading. And remember: Want to make stuff happen? All you need to do …
Category Archives: Elsewhere
Responsive Elements
FlowType.JS
Ideally, the most legible typography contains between 45 and 75 characters per line. This is difficult to accomplish for all screen widths with only CSS media-queries. FlowType.JS eases this difficulty by changing the font-size—and subsequently the line-height—based on a specific element’s width. This allows for a perfect character count per line at any screen width. …
Import Photoshop CC Assets into Edge Reflow
Formstone
The making of Grand Theft Auto
Rockstar Games is about to unleash GTA V, the latest installment in its multimillion-selling Grand Theft Auto series. But before the hype, Hollywood voice actors and three dimensions was the game that started it all in 1997. Unloved, hugely delayed and plagued by bugs, GTA almost didn’t see the light of day. This is the …
FireShell, fiercely quick front-end boilerplate and workflows
The Scarecrow
Wonderful animation to promote the game “The Scarecrow”. In a dystopian fantasy world, all food production is controlled by fictional industrial giant Crow Foods. Scarecrows have been displaced from their traditional role of protecting food, and are now servants to the crows and their evil plans to dominate the food system. Dreaming of something better, …
HelloRun
Phonebloks
A phone only lasts a couple of years before it breaks or becomes obsolete. Although it’s often just one part which killed it, we throw everything away since it’s almost impossible to repair or upgrade. Phonebloks is made of detachable bloks. The bloks are connected to the base which locks everything together into a solid …