Jake Grimley

"Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the..."

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:19:48 +0100

“Every recent consumer electronics product from Apple—definitely the iPad, but all iterations of the iPhone including the initial one—has been greeted with rounds of articles crowing about what an arrogant, foolhardy mistake it is and how this will finally, finally, be the moment the emperor is revealed to have no clothes. And ultimately this is what’s so infuriating about Apple: that’s not what happens. Ever. The critics are eternally playing the part of Charlie Brown trying to kick the football, and Steve Jobs always yanks it away at the last second. Nobody talks about making a “Nexus One killer” or an “HP Slate killer” or a “Zune killer”; Apple’s consumer electronics products become the reference points for their fields.”

- The Emperor’s New Antenna

stick of rock acquired for Jana. brumward bound.

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 20:15:25 +0100

stick of rock acquired for Jana. brumward bound.

In Blackpool. a lovely sunny day. calm sea. eating fish and chips with mushy peas. no gravy though....

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:28:31 +0100

In Blackpool. a lovely sunny day. calm sea. eating fish and chips with mushy peas. no gravy though. that would be taking it too far.

Aargh - am in the quiet zone again sitting next to a quiet zone Nazi. No wonder the queue for this...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 19:24:50 +0100

Aargh - am in the quiet zone again sitting next to a quiet zone Nazi. No wonder the queue for this carriage was shorter.

Srsly this new phone is so much better for bombing around London with. speedy, compass, battery...

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:08:23 +0100

Srsly this new phone is so much better for bombing around London with. speedy, compass, battery barely touched. Can even phone people.

5 Reasons Why You Can Use HTML5 Today

Thu, 22 Jul 2010 04:26:38 +0100

5 Reasons Why You Can Use HTML5 Today

Our new site for “London’s coolest theatre” is now live:...

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:58:45 +0100

Our new site for “London’s coolest theatre” is now live: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com Props to @primeobjectives for the texture shots.

Royal Court Theatre

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:52:50 +0100

Royal Court Theatre:

If things have been a bit quiet around here recently, it’s because we’ve been flat out working on a new clutch of websites. Made’s been working on the new Royal Court Theatre for a…

Required Reading

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:16:16 +0100

Don’t usually go for this sort of thing, but a lot of these are right on the money.

"I wasn’t familiar with the code when I opened it, so I assumed the interior white space came from..."

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 09:37:04 +0100

“I wasn’t familiar with the code when I opened it, so I assumed the interior white space came from padding on the container. I wanted to add an “admin” checkbox below the user info on the right, and I expected it to align flush left with the name and email. But that’s not what happened.”

- Styling for change with rules and exceptions - (37signals)

This sort of thing used to do my head in constantly. Back in the days when I still did code, and a certain someone seemed to pad every element individually as some kind of depraved box-model workaround.

A particularly laboured labour of love has just left the Made stable. We’ll announce shortly;...

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:13:10 +0100

A particularly laboured labour of love has just left the Made stable. We’ll announce shortly; meantime a few drinks may be drunk tonight.

Fake

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:58:22 +0100

Fake

In Cardiff. Quite nice.

Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:04:51 +0100

In Cardiff. Quite nice.

Still at work. Eating Pizza. Drinking Beer. This is what happens when my better half goes away. On...

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:08:35 +0100

Still at work. Eating Pizza. Drinking Beer. This is what happens when my better half goes away. On the bright side: issue list shrinking…

Just been invaded by a load of local yoot, for our latest usability study. Very well mannered....

Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:06:55 +0100

Just been invaded by a load of local yoot, for our latest usability study. Very well mannered. Declined my offer to go on a Sunny D run.

Geeking out in Paris.

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 12:19:22 +0100

Geeking out in Paris.

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:51:02 +0100

Home | Yahoo! Style Guide

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:55:25 +0100

Home | Yahoo! Style Guide

"The beauty of responsive web design becomes obvious when you see your site in smart phones, tablets,..."

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:21:00 +0100

“The beauty of responsive web design becomes obvious when you see your site in smart phones, tablets, and widescreen desktop browsers. It’s as if your site was redesigned to perfectly fit that specific environment. And yet there is but one actual design—a somewhat plastic design, if you will. An extensible design, if you prefer. It’s what some of us were going for with “liquid” web design back in the 1990s, only it doesn’t suck.”

- Responsive design is the new black – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report

Some lovely stuff here, and perhaps the way Web design should be. Unfortunately there’s a small voice nagging at me that because this approach relies on ‘craft’ as opposed to ‘product’ or ‘marketing’, it will ultimately go the way of liquid web design or ‘mobile style sheets’ (remember them?).

Got my life back.

Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:33:06 +0100

Got my life back.