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Found Friday Vol 77

January 6, 2012

Number 77 of Found Fridays checking in here. You know what else was #77? Ray Bourque. There, maybe you learned something today. Feel free to learn more (perhaps related to your profession, i.e. design) with the following finds: an awesome “day in the life of a designer” parody video from the holidays; a super-simple WordPress plugin for front-end uploads; an interesting year-end update from Process Type Foundry; a site with a great collection of design & dev tools; and finally some beautiful new monitors from Samsung.

Viewpoint Creative – Holiday Card

So I’m a little late on this one, but if you missed it, check out this short (and hilarious) video. If you’re a designer of any ilk, you’ll relate.

Front End Upload WordPress Plugin

This is a simple, open-source solution to adding front-end uploading capabilities to your WordPress site. Looks pretty handy, although I haven’t tried it myself.

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Found Friday Vol 76

December 9, 2011

Found Friday Vol 76 is upon us, and this week we have: a dead simple article on responsive design; a gorgeous letterpress poster for sale based on a Steve Jobs quote; a great tutorial on numbering ordered lists; a must-read article on judging business practices; and a solid tool for validating your site markup (as opposed to page-by-page validation).

Responsive Design in 3 Steps

Responsive design – website design that adapts to the device window – is all the rage these days. Like Skrillex (or so I hear, I don’t know). Anyway, it can be a little intimidating, but this article is very simple & straightforward. It’s a great way to get your feet wet with responsive (albeit not fluid) design.

Here’s to the Crazy Ones Letterpress Poster

There’s been a few different designs based on quotes floating around since Steve Jobs passed – here’s another, printed and designed beautifully. This letterpress poster is available printed with or without a frame.

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Found Friday Vol 75

December 2, 2011

Ahoy hoy, and welcome to Found Friday Vol 75. This week we have some great finds: a gift guide for tech heads/designers, a great look behind the scenes at Atlassian’s rebrand, an interesting article on BrandStack, a free online course for learning jQuery, and an easy way for you Instagram-loving hipsters to print your photos directly to canvas.

Core77 GiftGuide

I love gift guides that are focused on interesting & well-designed goods. That’s what this one is – check it out!

Behind the Scenes of the Atlassian Logo Redesign

Atlassian, a software company focusing on issue tracking and similar products, underwent a great redesign. Read all about the process in this article. Fascinating stuff for brand nerds like myself.

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Found Friday Vol 74

November 18, 2011

After a brief hiatus last week, we’re back with Vol 74 of Found Fridays. This week’s web finds include: GridBooks for sketching out your wireframes; the A List Apart Web Design survey; a great plugin that will auto-load plugins when you set up WordPress; a dead-simple way to make HTML5 video & audio work cross-browser; and a secret passageway switch (it was too cool to not share).

GridBooks

Wireframing makes projects more efficient and makes me focus on content & usability. These GridBooks look to be a great tool for sketching out web design wireframes.

A List Apart – Web Design Survey 2011

Every year A List Apart has a survey with the intent to get a good look into the state of professional web design across the globe. If you consider yourself a professional web designer or developer, head on over and fill out the survey!

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Found Friday Vol 73

November 4, 2011

73 seems like an absurd number. I don’t know what else in my life I have done 73 times. Anyway, this week’s Found Friday includes some great finds, as always: a great article/tutorial on designing a responsive site; a sweet combo charger for us Apple nerds; a site that shows a bunch of logos created strictly in CSS (with code); some touchscreen-compatible winter gloves; and a “fish hotel” so even your fish can be stylin’.

How to Design a Mobile Responsive Website

A lengthy but easy-to-grasp article on mobile responsive website design. If you have any questions about responsive design, read this article. It’ll help immensely.

PlugBug

Yes. Yes, I am tired of carrying a MacBook and iPhone/iPad charger every time I leave the house. What’s that, you say? You’ve combined the two into some sort of magical dual charging device?

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