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This is one of those things that I read through and go "yep. yep. yep. and yep." But I would have never seen those things if not for a before and after or havin
by aarondf 13y ago
This is one of those things that I read through and go "yep. yep. yep. and yep." But I would have never seen those things if not for a before and after or having a trained designer point them out to me.
There's a big difference between understanding something and being able to generate it ex nihilo. Years ago, I would look at code samples and think "ah! how clever! why couldn't I think of that?" Now, having had much more practice I can come up with all those once-clever solutions on my own. It's fun to move from looking at other's people work and thinking you could never do it, to realizing they've done it a good way, but you might do it a bit differently.
Now I just look at my code and say, quit being so damn "clever", but that's a different topic.
- joeblau 13y agoYou know what's funny? I had the same feeling when I was working with Jason Long who designed the git-scm.com logo [1]. I asked if he could help me design a logo for http://gitignore.io http://gitignore.io and he came up with an awesome design [2]. It took elements from the original git-scm.com and used them in a creative way to emulate a dot file. I showed it to my friend and he was like "That's so easy to do" and my response was "yeah, but you would have never come up with it 100 designs." My friend didn't refute that. [1] - http://git-scm.com/images/logo@2x.png http://git-scm.com/images/logo@2x.png [2] - https://raw.github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/master/public/gi/img/gitignore-logo-dark.png https://raw.github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io/master/public/gi...
- ansimionescu 13y agoI started watching the Github repo [1], I love your website! 1: https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io https://github.com/joeblau/gitignore.io
- joeblau 13y agoThanks :)
- sontek 13y agoI find the final p Mail Chimp extremely hard to distinguish, especially at smaller sizes. The p looks like its saying Chimyo instead of chimp.