I'm Brad Cooper, Web Theorist and Social Media Conspirator with a passion for realizing ideas both visually and technically.
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Please stop putting the “Android” in your application icons. I know you really like the OS and all, but seriously there is nothing gained by having that little guy all over the place. How about you do a real icon in case you might, you know, create your app for a different platform.
Here’s some things you might have happened upon this past week (That I subsequently shared on twitter) in case you missed it the first time.
I find myself avoiding JavaScript libraries and sticking to old school JavaScript as much as I can – there are just some times that it weighs more than it needs to relative to the type of site. But Modernizr is the one piece of code that I’ll always use on a site!
Even in the early stages of Chrome OS development, Google’s newest addition to the Operating System landscape is shaping up to be an interesting venture into the future of digital consumption and production. With the continued growth of the web application landscape, designers, coders, and bloggers just might soon be working in the cloud.
This is our Christmas tree this year. It’s much less psychedelic in person.
A long time client, Ed Ruggero, a public speaker and leadership consultant, approached me some time back to do some minor updates to his website. So I imagined it was my own site and offered up a complete overhaul of the code and design, so it could continue to serve him for several more years to come.
I’ve seen a lot of people quoting tweets in their blogs by simply including a screenshot of the posted page from Twitter. That’s just wrong for so many reasons.
Today I attempted to register an account with Copyright.gov. I’m thinking the form is really a near-impossible code that no one has been able to break and there’s a job offer on the other side of it for the secret service to the first person that can crack it.
Or maybe they just don’t know what user experience design is. Yeah, that’s probably it.
In the mountains, it is the flowers that overcome. organic breaking volcanic. would you rather be killed by falling rocks or falling flowers? I’m pretty sure you’d choose the flowers too. And if my math is correct, a ton of flowers weighs less than a ton of rocks so it has to be a more pleasant way to go.
Just minutes later, after devouring the dark, they threw up the light. Not sure if that was a good thing or not – it was tough to clean up, but hey, it wasn’t dark.
They gather stones to be thrown in a time of visual silence. Muted outcomes encourage the rest when history disappears in the present. Daze without breaks, night without daybreaks, here’s to pieces and peace.
Smashing Magazine just put up an article I wrote – “The gradual disappearance of Flash websites”, an insight into why I believe it makes little sense to still be using Flash on websites.