Jay Robinson

Tag: design

  • Good design is seldom accepted. It has to be sold. Julius Shulman

  • When you make a thing, a thing that is new, it is so complicated making it that it is bound to be ugly. But those that make it after you, they don’t have to worry about making it. And they can make it pretty, and so everybody can like it when the others make it…

  • Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm Taylor

    Design Tip: Never Use Black by Ian Storm TaylorThis was probably the best design tip I learned in 2012. If you haven’t read this yet, give it a read.

  • Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

    Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface DesignIt’s not often you can get very much out of a solitary deck of slides. Much of the magic is meant to be delivered by the (hopefully engaging) speaker. However, Aaron Walter’s slide deck, Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design, was so good it inspired me to buy…

  • If an error is possible, someone will make it. The designer must assume that all possible errors will occur and design so as to minimize the chance of the error in the first place, or it’s effects once it gets made. Errors should be easy to detect, they should have minimal consequences, and, if possible,…

  • If you’re not using Xscope 3’s new Golden Section feature to plan your designs, what kind of a designer are you?

  • Really nice graphic from Teixidó detailing their design and development process. Also, check out their new responsive website design.

  • Found type in Rome by Paul Soulellis. This sign simply reads “cheese,” yet it’s beautiful. See the rest of the set by clicking through.

  • Step 1: Helvetica. Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit! Chris Wanstrath

  • Scott Jackson: In 1989, Matt Groening worked on an Apple advertising pamphlet/booklet thing aimed at students. Read the whole thing.

  • Strake: Sebastiaan de With has started a Flickr group for high resolution versions of iPhone and iPad icons. And speaking of nice icons, check out this beauty for Wikipanion.

  • The upgraded truck icon that comes with an FTP client

    The Strake: Panic has released a fantastic upgrade to one of the coolest (and most copied) icons ever. As a bonus, the icon comes bundled with an FTP client that is supposed to be pretty damn good. Here is the “old” version: And the beautiful, updated version: Both the cab and the rear container are…

  • Selecting hair with Refine Edge in Adobe Photoshop CS5 is pretty amazing.

  • Via Jonathan Moore: The Last Advertising Agency On Earth This office is being preserved just as it was found after everyone vanished.  We can even see what they were doing when that moment came, filling in time sheets, getting another coffee, playing foosball.  They were carrying on as they always had.  Ignorant to the great…

  • iPad Wireframe .EPS

    iPad Wireframe .EPSThe beautiful & talented Sarah Parmenter: “To celebrate the launch of the iPad, and undoubtedly another fantastic platform to design for, I have designed an iPad Wireframe to help you with the design process for yourself and/or your clients.”