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December 19 2008

Everything else was grey

I'm brad cooper, a user experience designer and front-end programmer with a passion for realizing ideas both visually and technically.

You can find me all over the intertubes. I'm on , , , and — I'm all over the place. Hell, I'm even on if that's something your into.

It was really the only thing alive down by the creek except for some ants crawling across a fallen stone wall.

Recent Articles and Tutorials

So you're quoting a tweet? Please don't do it with a screenshot.

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.

The near-impossible user registration of Copyright.gov

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.

Let it be known that I'm a Flash hater (for the most part)

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.

It couldn't be spam (I'm about to be rich)

Gmail has done me right for years, and I can’t remember the last time that I received any spam. I have relinquished all control of what’s a hoax and what’s not to Google’s discretion. Since Google has deemed this correspondence worthy enough to make it’s way to my inbox, I’m going to consider this a legit request.

Designing in code, twenty-ten, and writing again (in no particular order)

I managed to “realign” the design and structure of this site. For this iteration, I made it a point not to open an image editing program and instead prototyped and built it strictly with code. I greatly enjoyed doing it this way and I think it helped keep the design simple.

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