Frontend Developer
My name is Kahlil. I used to be the recording artist "Ill Inspecta". Now I am a frontend developer, podcaster and in my spare time I support my wife's musical career.
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This Week in TWiST is the podcast that I am hosting with @wiseman. We cover the show This Week in Startups.
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Blog Post On The Importance Of Great Webdesign Over At @woothemes
Superb design work is admittedly quite expensive, but a mediocre design, user experience & marketing campaign just won’t cut it anymore. If you haven’t been giving this enough thought & energy until now, you need to implement a more design-focused approach in your thinking & strategizing.
via woothemes.com
Outstanding design is getting more and more important and that is a need that will never go away. Outstanding web designers will prosper greatly.
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Social Media Icons in Pure CSS
So beautiful. Definitely the future of these kind of icons. See the demo here.
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Simplicity Is So Satisfying
“Side effects of developing for yourself” is an interesting piece by Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper (a simple tool to save web pages for reading later).
In it, Marco talks about how features only get developed if he wants to use them. That means a big NO to the following: unread-count icon badge, tags, full-screen reading (where you tap to temporarily show the toolbars), comments, and Graphical Mode (“It’s one of those features that people say they want until they actually use it and realize that it’s not worthwhile at all.”)
Does this mean he’s not listening to customers? No, he’s just not letting them steer the product.
I try to minimize ways for my customers to shoot themselves in the foot…If I let users steer product decisions, the result would be a massive codebase producing a bloated, cluttered product full of features that hardly anyone used at the expense of everyday usability and polish on the features that matter. Like Microsoft Word. Or Firefox.
Great to hear about Marco’s strong point of view. And I can vouch personally for the results: Instapaper is the iPhone app I use the most.
On a related note, “Feature checklist dysfunction” is another post by Marco where he rails against checklist comparisons. Here he evaluates the iPhone to see whether it’s a good product:
“Sounds like a terrible product. I bet it will fail.”
via 37signals.com
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