Designing for iPad
A great read by Derek Powazek on the differences between designing websites and iPad interfaces, its experiences and interactions.
Latest Additions to the Notebook
Gusto for iPad: A text editor and FTP client
Finally a good looking and functional FTP / Text editor for your iPad. Just purchased it and played around for a few minutes. Initial thoughts: I like.
Free Fonts: Technical and artistic quality
A great, more technical, write up by @Fontshop which makes for great company along side my recent post, With beautiful type comes great responsibility. Includes a nice list of things to check when picking a free font.
Try Web FontFonts on any website
Now this is super cool! Try out quality fonts on any website. Replace all those web-safe fonts with the beautiful faces of FontFont’s offerings.
drwr.it: Design & Illustration inspiration by the people
A plethora of inspiration that will ease your typography, color, illustration and design addiction.
(via @drawar)
How to get page loads to under one second
Dave Rupert discusses the tools, tricks, and magic to optimize for page load speed. I can fully attest as Dave was the father of page load for this site’s redesign. He exasperated so much effort into load times, he ended up getting sick day of launch – no joke. He says it was because of bad food, but I’d argue it was because of his dedication the night before of page loading and development perfection.
