It's been a fun and exciting year for us. We worked with a lot of great people, released our first web app (Picofin.com) and Shawn moved to the Netherlands where he established a Dutch branch for Big.
We've learned a lot about running our own business over these past 12 months and we're looking forward to another year.
Thank you all for supporting us and helping us grow!
Photo Credit: mediamolecule
Here is Episode 1 of our Designer Hangout where we talked about Design Processes. We’ve noted discussion topic changes in the player if you want to skip around. If you weren’t able to join us for this one, don’t worry, we’ll be hosting more of them.
The first Big Name Designer Hangout will be Dec 16th from 2PM to 3PM Central (8PM to 9PM GMT).
We'd like to know what you want to chat about. Head on over to our Google+ post and check out some ideas and suggestions for topics.
Hope you can make it!
Here is Episode 1 of our Developer Hangout where we talked about Walking the Line Between Performance and Ease of Development. We've noted discussion topic changes in the player if you want to skip around. If you weren't able to join us for this one, don't worry, we'll be hosting more of them.
We'd like to give a special thanks to the talented designer and electronic music producer +Scott Weber (Line 47) for putting together some awesome intro/outro music for us.
We're excited to announce the release of Picofin. Picofin is a fast, simple tool for online proofing and sharing. We needed a little more and a little less from a design sharing app. We made our own and invite you to use it as well.
We're big fans of HTML5 Boilerplate. It's a great starter and the project is constantly being refined. The latest version now incorporates Normalize.css in the main style sheet. This refreshed file no longer includes the classic CSS reset or a myriad of default styles. What's left is a very lean and sexy style sheet.
What is Normalize.css? From the authors at the Normalize.css project:
Normalize.css is a customisable CSS file that makes browsers render all elements more consistently and in line with modern standards. We researched the differences between default browser styles in order to precisely target only the styles that need normalizing.
The new HTML5 Boilerplate style.css file is now much lighter and is documented very well. Currently, this updated version is only available via the GitHub repository and the developers are looking for feedback on the latest commit at their Google Group.
We're excited to try out the updated boilerplate. Anyone worked with the new files yet?
