tedkimble

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by tedkimble 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Most recent work: http://kimble.co/web I am a design generalist with a undergraduate degree in mathematics and physics and graduate design degree in architecture. My ability to design and program -- and perhaps more
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by tedkimble 15y ago
I enjoy the discussion between engineering and design. I used to think of myself as an engineering-type person. I engineered solutions. Indeed, my undergraduate education was in math and physics. But then I began a lengthy graduate design
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by tedkimble 15y ago
You haven't provided enough information to be sure, but $3k might just be what's required for the scope of your project. If you put your email in your profile I'd be happy to contact you and discuss more (or feel free to email me).
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by tedkimble 15y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote I'm a bit of unicorn: a designer and a developer[0]. I practice responsive front-end design and implementation and enjoy using Sass, Coffeescript, and Mustache. I have a graduate design degree in architecture. I have o
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by tedkimble 15y ago
A question to web-designers: What are the metrics with which you test your design experimentations? Does it pass the test if it aligns to a grid, contains a pleasant color palette, has enough whitespace, hierarchy, and contrast? Or is there
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Thanks for the nice counter-argument. I think you're probably right in practice. My opinion stems from two things. First, HMTL and CSS are trivially easy for me and consume only a small fraction of time I spend on the design process. I imag
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by tedkimble 15y ago
I think we're likely on the same page. But your original post made me think differently, particularly this line: >> I don't hire designers who write code. I liked your article "Put Down Your Crayons". We should all be "design thinke
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by tedkimble 15y ago
>> There is essentially no other medium for which this demand is made. I beg to differ. Clothing designers know their fabrics. Blacksmiths know their metals. Leather makers know their leathers. Architects know their building
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by tedkimble 15y ago
But that's the problem. There's a disconnect between the term "web designer" and the skills of the trade. Architects know about building materials. Blacksmiths know about iron and steel. Furniture designers know about furniture materials. E
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by tedkimble 15y ago
>> I hire designers, developers, and strategists who work well together. I think the biggest problem in these conversations is misaligned terminology in our conversations. Based on the rest of your post (and only this post), I would
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by tedkimble 15y ago
But why must designers be able to code markup and css; surely a PSD mockup will suffice, correct? It's because to design for any medium you must understand its capabilities and its tendencies . Those too exist on the web, even if they
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Manuel DeLanda - Intensive Science & Virtual Philosophy http://www.amazon.com/Intensive-Science-Virtual-Philosophy-C...
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Your first principles are the constituents of your worldview. Put in reverse: You worldview is the sum of your first principles. Unfortunately, understanding your world view is a daunting task. This is why most people don't start with first
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by tedkimble 15y ago
I'll go farther and say that designing in a physical medium will make you a better digital designer. Physical mediums often have more explicit capabilities and limitations. These are gold in the hands of a talented designer. Learning how to
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by tedkimble 15y ago
What's your point? The author is talking about the top 0.5%, or even just the top 0.1%. The Forbes 400 represents the top 0.0000132%. Sure, maybe entrepreneurs are the majority in that group, but don't trick yourself into thinking the other
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by tedkimble 15y ago
You're right. They look beautiful at >100px on a typical display, but many look quite cramped if you try to match their dimensions to the height of your standard paragraph font.
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by tedkimble 15y ago
I've been using a few of them lately; they're great. However, I wish they would expand their wonderful noun project to include verbs and adjectives and more. (Yes, it looks like they take the noun part rather serious.) Sure, there are nouns
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Perhaps because there's multiple 'markdown-ruby's and they all want to be distributed as RubyGems. More importantly, I rather like many of the names!
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Having a dedicated search box is my big beef with every other browser.
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Can we flag this already? The last place I want to hear commenters praise supply-side economics is HN.
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by tedkimble 15y ago
So at $750 million a pop, that's a little over $550 billion to power US homes. Or, roughly 50% of the annual budget of the military to power all US homes for 80 years! Clearly back of the envelope numbers, but definitely something to be exc
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by tedkimble 15y ago
No. I'd be ecstatic that the pencil is now free.
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Give it a few days and you'll think going back to the old way will take a lot of getting used to.
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Everyone in the comments seems to be quickly attributing consciousness directly to a sufficiently connected deterministic system. This seems to guarantee a deterministic view of life, which I find troubling. Have any of you thought of the r
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by tedkimble 15y ago
Have you looked into a Deleuzian materialist philosophy? I like DeLanda's article on the open-ended nature of the world: http://www.diss.sense.uni-konstanz.de/virtualitaet/delanda.h...
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by tedkimble 15y ago
I'm not sure of the technical details of how they are doing it, but I believe the difficulty of mining a bitcoin is proportional to the speed with which they are being mined (and thus the amount of mining going on). So throwing a lot of r
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by tedkimble 15y ago
My biggest complaint of the recent changes is that it appears to have broken the hckr news Chrome extension, which added new comment highlighting. For me this is one of those features that I never knew I wanted, but now that it is gone I ca
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by tedkimble 16y ago
What grid are you talking about? Are your eyes decoding 12 columns of information? Or is it just nice to have two things aligned with each other? I suspect it's the latter. And again, that has absolutely nothing to do with a 12 or 16 or xx
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by tedkimble 16y ago
I understand the flexibility argument, and it's a valid one. If you often have grids of 2, 3, 4, or 6 columns, a 12 column grid is surely useful. I abhor grids for two reasons. One, they are often used as justification, which I find complet
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by tedkimble 16y ago
If your web design includes a grid of 100 elements. By all means, yes, the grid is important. But your design consists of three columns. Do you really need a 12 column grid to understand that relationship?

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