Jay Robinson

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  • UI/UX inspiration.

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  • Alex Clare, “Caroline” I found this song randomly on Hype Machine. Nice modern blues. Hit me up.

  • “The Art of Listening” by John Carey

    “The Art of Listening” by John Carey When was the last time you sat or laid down to listen to an album all the way through, start to finish? Just you, the music, the environment you are in, and maybe a significant other. … Many people seem to think it is unreasonable to do something…

  • Just take a shower. What topic do your thoughts keep returning to? If it’s not what you want to be thinking about, you may want to change something. Paul Graham, The Top Idea in Your Mind

  • Sencha tumblr: Thrilled to see VHX, a Flash web app for time-shifting online videos, uses Sencha Touch for their HTML5 mobile app. One of my favorite web apps now has a Sencha Touch app!

  • “Forever Bicycles” by Ai Weiwei.

  • Prefixr beta · Cross-Browser CSS in Seconds

    Prefixr beta · Cross-Browser CSS in SecondsNice little one-trick web app. Example: You write border-radius: 5px it outputs the same with -moz, -ms, -o, and -webkit prefixes. Even includes Microsoft CSS filters for opacity and background gradients in IE.

  • Get colored sidebar icons back in Mac OS X 10.7 Finder I’m not one to rail against every change in UI to the point that I revert Lion to look exactly like Snow Leopard, but the monochromatic sidebar was a major issue of usability to me. I am happy to make this change as I…

  • P.J. Onori proposes a new standard for gesture icons, emphasizing legibility at small sizes: I believe today’s gesture icons are not hitting the mark because they lack the qualities associated with good icons. I have designed an icon system in attempt to address this issue. Excellent set, well thought-out.

  • I saw a ton of awesome slide decks this week at SenchaCon. Nevertheless, GitHub dev Zach Holman’s Slide Design for Developers is a necessity: Make your text huge. And then get rid of half of the words and make it huger. Almost all of the presentations I’ve ever seen at every conference screws this up.…

  • In a nutshell, we can describe this process as such: technology eventually divorces content from a specific medium. Content becomes not formless but form agnostic, with the ability to live wherever a human might want it. Drewbot, “On Facebook Timeline: Teaching Data to Speak Humanely” Excellent writeup of Facebook’s most recent evolution of social networking.

  • Goin’ H.A.M. at SenchaCon