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By: .carlo d.j. - If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not...

.carlo d.j. - If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not... — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 09:51:51 +0000

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Soup | Anthony De Rosa - If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not... — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 03:31:59 +0000

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By: Gaurav M

Gaurav M — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:02:06 +0000

If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not growing.

Growth is the essence of life.
To grow ourselves and to grab our share of pride n respect from the hostile world..its necessary. For one survival too.

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Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:47:21 +0000

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O' Bedlam!!! - If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not... — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 17:14:55 +0000

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TMBLG — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:29:50 +0000

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By: Evan Skuthorpe

Evan Skuthorpe — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:17:27 +0000

So true, my old work (and some quite recent!) shames me but drives me on to be a better designer!

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By: Matthew Mesker | Web Design & Development | Progress!

Matthew Mesker | Web Design & Development | Progress! — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:42:42 +0000

[...] Posted on Friday, August 7th, 2009 at 8:42pm by Matt. “If your old work doesn’t shame you, you’re not growing. It’s nice to look back and feel that you’ve made progress. When you look at old work, it should suck glaringly and you should cringe painfully. But there should also be some germ within it that you’re not ashamed of—some spark of talent or inspiration that connects to what you do now.” — Zeldman [...]

By: Skythe

Skythe — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:02:59 +0000

Microsoft should turn the fancy features on by default in its last three operating systems. But, no.

Amen, Jeff. But until then…
And, talking about Helvetica (Neue), your footer copy is not really readable either even with ClearType enabled, Jeff. ;)

So caring about typography, usability, and design makes you a Mac “fanboy-designer?” That’s a clearly reasoned attitude.

No, let me put it this way: Mac designers a) dont suffer from this MS problem and/or b) dont know about it. That’s why so many “cutting-edge” design projects are unreadable on windows PCs (used by a vast majority of our visitors). They’re online nevertheless and noone seems to care.

By: Jeffrey Zeldman

Jeffrey Zeldman — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:53:12 +0000

nor does any Windows PC with default settings.

Despite designers’ pleas to Microsoft over the past six years.

Windows default settings are optimized for low-end PCs with low-end monitors, low-end graphics cards, and barebones RAM.

This, even though hardware, monitors, and RAM pricing have plummeted over the past decade, so that nearly every PC in America, at least, is more than capable of displaying millions of colors, ClearType, and so on.

Based on the bells and whistles that ship with today’s relatively low-cost HPs and Dells, etc., Microsoft should turn the fancy features on by default in its last three operating systems. But, no.

Sad.

And hardly any of your average Mac-fanboy-designers

So caring about typography, usability, and design makes you a Mac “fanboy-designer?” That’s a clearly reasoned attitude.

By: Skythe

Skythe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:06:48 +0000

And hardly any of your average Mac-fanboy-designers will ever notice, I might add. ;) Poor visitors.

By: Skythe

Skythe — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:05:08 +0000

If it’s any consolation, the computer terminals at my university’s library don’t have ClearType/font-smoothing turned on [...]

…nor does any Windows PC with default settings. That’s why using Helvetica for copy is maybe the most stupid thing web 2.0 has brought us.