Tag: worky worky
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responsive design and client pitches
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in WorkRight now, I’m testing out waters with a potential client who is requiring me to submit PSDs of 4 different resolutions (mobile phone, tablet, “medium” desktop, wide-screen desktop) and I’m taking around four hours just trying to design for 1 resolution of 1 specific screen. How I would do it, personally: Design wireframes for the…
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on insecurities and growth
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in PonderI was sharing with C how I felt very insecure about “not being popular enough” last year, and feeling unappreciated in the more seemingly “designer / artist circles.” That, perhaps, feeling overshadowed by other designers/artists made me feel pretty useless. In comparison, I feel like my own set of skills could be appreciated more in…
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Building Save 22: design: constantly changing, slowly improving
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in LiveBuilding Save 22: design: constantly changing, slowly improving build22: above: a rough draft of the Save22 portal, back in October 2012 above: the Save22 portal today Today we released a small update to Save22.com.ph / Save22.com.sg — the headers. There are a lot of other things that we’re still working on, thinking about, discussing, experimenting…
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It’s too early for work and coffee hasn’t kicked in
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in Live*lobby calls* Ron: are we expecting a guy named J? Everyone: huh? No. Ron: *on the phone* no, we’re not expecting anybody. Lope: do you want me to go and check? Ron: ok. Three minutes later — Ron: Oh. My bad. It’s the SEO guy
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wordpress codes: advanced custom fields and grouping select repeater fields
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in WorkHere’s an example of a repeater field on WordPress: Basically, I wanted the page to render the service names under the similarly-labeled service labels. My brain isn’t very good with the whole PHP logic thing, so I got the internet to help me out. I adapted this original response on StackOverflow and edited it to…
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video portfolio on wordpress (from semi-scratch)
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in LiveI’ll be making a longer blog post about this eventually, but I’m just listing down some significant resources I’ve been using these past few days: WordPress – I don’t have time to learn a different CMS right now, and my client is comfortable and familiar enough with this. Time saved is currently worth it. Foundation…
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Better, better, better
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in LiveTying up some lose ends in work. Stay firm in saying ‘no’ to projects for a while, until I get my shit together. Have a little faith in myself. Relax and enjoy Taipei. My sessions have been very helpful, I’d like to believe. I’m told I will continue to struggle with some things but I…
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Love/hate relationship with Pixelmator and Sketch (where is Retina support for Adobe!?)
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in LiveBecause designing with Adobe on my retina MBP is a pain in the eyes (all those pixels, gahh!) I’m trying to replace my workflow with Pixelmator and Sketch. Unfortunately, it’s not too easy because: (1) Designing for, say, 1144px on Pixelmator makes the canvas look as small as this: I’m not sure if I’m being…
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in DesignKeith Robinsons reframes UX: In essence, if you’re building a product for use, everyone involved is a UX person. I do think it’s good to have someone who “owns” UX, and as you grow, someone who’s focused on bringing it all together. What you don’t want is a “specialist” that defines their work by the deliverables…