Everyone check out Sarah Lacy’s new site that I designed: PandoDaily.com! She is an incredible writer and wonderful inspiration! I am so happy that I was able to be involved in this epic project! This was truly an amazing experience. Keep going back to Pando for the best tech content! It is, after all, “the site-of-record for silicon valley”!
Category Archives: Design
WordCamp Birmingham is Jan14th and 15th!
WordCamp Birmingham is right around the corner! If you live in the south you have to come to this! Beginner or Dev, theres stuff for you at WordCamp Birmingham. We’re still looking for sponsors and please get the word out! Check out all the incredible speakers. Some are coming across the country just to talk to our community here and other are local legends! If that isn’t convincing enough, take a look at the ever-updating session page. There’s something for everyone! #WPYall

UI Design for Themes & Plugins: Presentation at WordCamp Vegas with Chelsea Otakan
Chelsea Otakan and I presented at WordCamp Vegas on UI Design for Themes & Plugins.
User interface design is both a science and an art. The developers and designers who volunteer to work on WordPress put a lot of thought into the approach. We’ll discuss how the WordPress UI can influence your theme and plugin UI designs.
Jonathan Hoefler – “type at the crossroads” AIGA Video

Love this video of Jonathan Hoefler speaking at the AIGA Pivot Conference. Epic talk from one of the most respected foundries in the industry. More info here: http://www.aiga.org/video-pivot-2011-hoefler/
Design Inspiration: Draw In Light – Package Design Blog
Terminal Refresh
Because I do a lot of work with WordPress Core, I find myself using terminal all the time for svn management and various other things. In order to make this mundane terminal window not make me depressed, I skinned it to make it fit my style better and make me happy when I use it. Here it is:

Bumbling around in WordPress. My pretty terminal theme makes it all better!
So, If you want to use this style for your terminal download it here.
Responsive Design Inspiration: the Boston Globe
The BostonGlobe.com recently launched a new responsive site! its beautiful thanks to the collaboration of the filament group and the globe.
Below is an awesome video they made about the design and development process and includes some technical talk about the use of media queries as well as starting big then simplifying rather than the reverse process of progressive enhancement. Interesting video for sure!
Good Read: “Adapted” by SimpleBits.
“Adapted”: a great article by SimpleBits about modifying an existing site (dribbble.com) to be mobile responsive.
Video: My Responsive Web Design talk at WordCamp San Francisco
Here’s the video recording of my talk at WordCamp San Francisco that I gave on Responsive Web Design. Lots of talk about Twenty Eleven, WordPress, and Media Queries. Enjoy!
Tokyo Wrap Up
Thank you to everyone who came to my talk at Jelly Jelly Cafe in Tokyo! I had the best time. It was great meeting everyone. Special thanks to Naoko for setting up the talk, Sho for hosting the talk in Jelly Jelly Cafe, and Toru for his awesome translating skills. More thanks to everyone else who came and helped in any way. I love Japan and it meant a lot to me to meet everyone. Below is the Ustream video from the talk :)
addition 12.17.12: The video is now on youtube!











