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November 2011

1 post

What is Responsive Web Design?

Yesterday I tweeted this: My excitement for Responsive Web Design is fading a bit. It’s great for simple websites, but not enough for more complex web apps. On mobile you don’t just wanna shrink and hide some stuff.. you wanna change behaviour. It caused some discussion and confusion. What I meant was that next to using media-queries to adapt to different screen sizes, we should...

October 2011

3 posts

Another angle on skeuomorphs

There is a good post about skeuomorphs titled Skeuomorph, Pt III. Next to touch and smell, there is another problem with skeuomorphs on digital screens. Changing the angle you look at it. Moving your head doesn’t change the 3D perspective, holding your tablet in a different angle does change the shadows and highlights. It just feels not as real. Maybe one day we can add a bump map to...

August 2011

1 post

July 2011

1 post

Force Lion's scrollbar back

“Anyone figured how to force the scrollbar in Lion with css/html/javascript? i.e. without sys prefs“ @andyshaw85 As soon as we thought we settled the “above the fold” discussions, with Safari on Lion it’s back, more than ever..!!! ;-( Personally, I prefer the hidden scrollbar, but in case you bump into a more “conservative” client and he really demands...

May 2011

1 post

IMDb redesigned

Redesigned an IMDb page. It still feels a little like a half backed exercise, but wanted to post it before it gets forgotten somewhere on my hard drive. It’s less about the visual look and more about the process, content/IA, UX and business model. See the redesign. Update: Lukas Mathis has a great post about unsolicited redesigns. And yes, he’s right. It’s easy to just put a...

April 2011

1 post

March 2011

1 post

January 2011

3 posts

December 2010

1 post

Happy 2011 everyone.

That’s all. PS. Yes, no big new year’s resolution from me.

November 2010

2 posts

October 2010

2 posts

My flirts with CSS3

At my day job I mostly work with Flash, AfterEffects, Photoshop. About a year ago I wanted to try something new and created Shitty Day using HTML, jQuery and CSS. And a couple months later, after I discovered that CSS3 can do animations, I did a photo-only tumblr theme called Organ. Nobody really cared until Cameron Moll (thanks) posted it on his blog and I got asked to create an official theme....

May I invite you to dribbble?

For the first time I had some dribbble invites to give away. YAY! Here are the lucky ones: It was pretty crazy.. in just one day I got like 50 shots. I loved to look at all of them but hated to just pick 3. Didn’t get picked? Don’t worry, your stuff is still awesome. I might just have a different taste. Also, a funny thing is that the above samples are not the ones they submitted,...

September 2010

3 posts

August 2010

1 post

July 2010

2 posts

June 2010

4 posts

April 2010

3 posts

ReWork - After the reading

Over the Eastern Holidays I had some time to read a new book called ReWork. I loved it. It reads trough like butter. Easy to understand, tons of good points. There are so many “yes, that’s it” moments, it fills you up with inspiration and motivation, but what happens after the reading? The last chapter in the book suggests: “If it grabs you, grab it right back and put it...

March 2010

1 post

January 2010

2 posts

Playing around with After Effects. It kinda looks like Darth Vader.

December 2009

2 posts

The Future Post

Sometimes when I write a new post I wish I could set the post date in the future. I don’t mean publish it on a later date. Publish now, but the blogging system is aware that the post is referenced into the future. The problem now is, that when I write about an upcoming event, visitors will see it too early and when the event get’s closer, that post is already buried with new ones. As...

Tumblr Mosaic Viewer →

This is pretty cool. Let’s you view all my content in a nice mosaic.

November 2009

5 posts

This is the new Design Process I’ve been trying to use lately. Skipping Wireframes and Photoshop comps! This video shows all the different design steps needed to create the Shitty Day site. As you can see, I tried to implement some principles I picked up during the years: Getting Real: Create a working prototype first, worry about Design later. Design from the inside-out (can’t...

Here a short video showing the making (actually cutting) of my new business cards.

October 2009

2 posts

September 2009

2 posts

“Meet the new CSS double dream team: border-radius + box-shadow.”

– Together they are unbeatable! It’s such a joy to use them for rounded corners with a drop shadow. The box above uses: border-radius: 8px; box-shadow: 0px 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,0.2); to do the magic. And it get’s better: They even work on embeded Flash! See the 4px rounded corners live in...

Why I’m switching to tumblr. This is already the 5th version of simurai.com. I’ve gone trough many phases.. highly graphical - minimalistic chic - fat blog - interactive 3D. But I’ve always struggled meeting all the following goals: Easy to update Easy to browse content Be able to integrate my portfolio with a blog and share other things I like all at the same place in a...

August 2009

1 post

May 2009

1 post

April 2009

1 post

October 2008

1 post

May 2008

1 post

August 2002

1 post