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Design vs Development Part 1: Philosophy,Or how the design cog became a development sprocket

Written in Frisco, TX on March 7, 2010 and tagged with , and .

Recently at $work, where I am in charge of herding the cats in the engineering department, I took some time to hammer out my vision of where the company could go with its core product. This meant I was creating feature specs, design and UI mockups.

I had a blast doing so, and I think the result was fairly well thought out, beautiful and most importantly, compelling. After the presentation to those above my pay grade, which went well, the obvious question was asked:

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Secrets of WPMU,

Written in Richardson, TX on January 5, 2009 and tagged with , , and .

Right, time for a new series to make its debut on Sillyness, and look at that its WordPress!

I am not sure how long this series will be, but since I have worked with MU quite a bit over the last 2 years or so, I thought it was high time to share some of the crap I have learned with all of you out there in the intarwebs.

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Disegno come arte: Rhythm,

Written in Plano, TX on November 13, 2007 and tagged with , , , and .

So, after reflecting on my entry “Visual Harmony in Webdesign”, I got to thinking. It is all well and good to complain bitterly about the lack of artisitic principles that are found in some of todays design, but what does it really accomplish?

Nothing. So today I am starting a multi-part series covering some of the priciples found in the world of fine art, that can be applied to our web design. First up is Rhythm, or Art Rhythm.

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