November 13, 2014 at 11:09 am
Here’s a fun distraction to kill a few minutes from design agency tothepoint. The first couple of levels were pretty easy, but once I got to Director I definitely needed a mouse over the trackpad. My first play through I scored 250 and then got better to 275. Watch out for the really thin serifs that start to disappear as the letters get smaller. Oh, and pay attention to the “Q“s.
October 16, 2014 at 11:41 am
The folks over at Typeform are making it easy to build beautiful, user-friendly forms and surveys. But what also caught my attention was their sense of humor. Form Invaders lets you shoot down radio buttons, check boxes, dropdowns, and the evil submit button overlord. It’s a great two minute time waster.
September 29, 2014 at 2:45 pm
Apparently I didn’t play the right Super Nintendo games because I don’t recognize any of the characters in this massive pixel collage of 16-bit sprites. I did find a pinball machine though.
(via Reddit)
September 19, 2014 at 1:53 pm
This article popped up in my RSS feed yesterday and it was too much. Something welled up inside me to fight the evil design in the world in what little way that I could. I gave myself 24 hours to code a new landing page from scratch. (I had to give myself a good buffer because I knew nothing was getting done last night while I watched the football game. War Damn Eagle!) Along the way, I cleaned up the information architecture and rewrote some copy.
There’s way more that could be done, but I wanted to give myself a hard deadline. By putting myself on the clock, I didn’t futz around. Nor am I holding on to it because it’s not perfect. It’s just an unsolicited redesign of a landing page — nothing more, nothing less.
The current site lives at warioworld.com while you can see my redesign live on my new playground space.
Warioworld.com Current Screenshot
Warioworld.com Landing Page Redesign
September 11, 2014 at 11:45 am
Reddit user need12648430 wrote a script to breakdown the colors used in making the colorful pocket monsters called Pokémon. Most of the color palettes are great inspiration as they show color theory concepts like complementary and analogous schemes. It’s also great to see how much variation and and complexity goes into something as simple as 8‑bit characters.
And yes, I know I’m showing off some of my geekness with this post. What would be even more geeky is if I were to disclose that I have a collection of Pokémon trading cards that I gathered in my teenage years safely tucked away. IF I were to disclose that. AND IF that were true…
*rummage* *rummage* “If I were a Pokémon were would I hide in this attic…” *rummage* *rummage*
(via Polygon)
August 20, 2014 at 2:47 pm
Yes, you read that correctly. Two fish are playing Super Street Fighter II Turbo on Twitch at the moment. And it is as awesome as it sounds.
June 29, 2010 at 10:26 am
I play some video games every now and then when I get a chance. My most recent game playing was Bioshock 2. It’s a great franchise that’s put together really well. Great gameplay, great story, great atmosphere, and great artwork. I’m not usually a limited edition package kind of guy, but I shelled out the extra $20 and got this one. I flipped through the art book when I opened the package, but hadn’t sat down and really looked at until the yesterday. There’s some great logo sketches in there for one of the game’s sections.
