Source: Six Revisions | 29 Jul 2010 | 6:00 am
How to Navigate Design by Committee
Let's examine why design by committee exists and why it so often fails.Source: Ajaxian » Front Page | 29 Jul 2010 | 12:10 am
Canto.js: An Improved Canvas API
Javascript author extraordinaire David Flanagan released Canto.js recently, a lightweight wrapper API for canvas, introduced here and documented at the top of the source code. Example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: canto("canvas_id").moveTo(100,100).lineTo(200,200,100,200).closePath().stroke(); Notice three things: canto() returns an abstraction of the canvas - a "Canto" object. As with jQuery and similar libraries, there's method chaining; each method called on a Canto [...]Source: Noupe Design Blog | 28 Jul 2010 | 8:59 am
Awesome Examples of Bridges Photography
This post features some beautiful photos of bridges. A creative photographer has the ability to bring life into a lifeless object with his experience and expertise. Have you seen some of these bridges already? What other beautiful architectural masterpieces can you think of? Let us know what you think in the comments to this [...]Source: Smashing Magazine Feed | 28 Jul 2010 | 8:45 am
Passing The Holy Milestone: How To Meet Deadlines
For too many projects, there comes a time when every action taken, every decision and sacrifice made, is spurred on by pressure to finish. Tempers seem to shrink along with the available days, talk about “high standards” gives way to “good enough,” and people realize that deadlines are aptly named. During the last-minute crunch, someone may well wonder, how did it come to this? Could it have been prevented?
Every Web project has deadlines. But not every designer or developer deals with them the same way. Because a deadline marks the end of a project, everyone involved in the project must understand the deadline’s role. Most projects follow a schedule or have an estimated date by which they must be completed. The concept is simple then: when the work takes longer than expected, deadlines get missed.
