Comments for Jack Osborne

Comment on Building The Bookcase by Mark McCorkell

Mark McCorkell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:43:48 +0000

There are almost too many good books I want at the minute! If I extended the average day to 48 hours I might just get a chance to read some of them.

I find some books hard work, so I always lean towards the books I know will have a gorgeous design making my experience that bit better.

Comment on Building The Bookcase by Jack Osborne

Jack Osborne — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:24 +0000

SGD is pretty good filled with a lot of good information, broken down into nice digestable chunks. The design itself it's brilliant and I love the layout, with the pages being split into two columns. Full to the bring of great info and graphics. I actually prefer Grid Systems as it's basically the book that started everything off and also because it proved quite hard to track down. Both books are worthy additions to any bookshelf.

Comment on Building The Bookcase by Mark McCorkell

Mark McCorkell — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:45:19 +0000

Loving the site, Jack! I took a dander over to your bookshelf and some nice books on there.

What is that Swiss Graphic Design book like? Looks like it could be VERY good reading for a Helvetica enthusiast like myself.

So many books I want and so little time to read them! Eeeek! :-0

Comment on Building The Bookcase by Jack Osborne

Jack Osborne — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:34:59 +0000

I've only just started reading Crush it! Ms. Baxter will be pleased as she's been telling me to get it for months now. So far it seems pretty good, as I initially thought it was going to be all hype. However, a word of warning, do not read this book if you are not in the profession you wish to be in. It'll make you unhappy and wonder what's the point of continuing. The theme of the book seems to be "if you're not passionate about something, don't do it." Luckily I don't think you fall into this camp. UX Design, was the last book I read and my first on UX. I throughly enjoyed it but that might be down partly to the fact that this is in area I really want to get in to and understand. I'll probably read it again to make sure I've understood everything. With regards to Designing for the Web, everything about it is great. I love the size, the material, the layout and all of the other little personal touches. The information isn't bad either, haha! Out of all three this would probably be my pick of the bunch. The fact that this is going to become part of a three book series makes it all the more appealing.

Comment on Building The Bookcase by Lee Munroe

Lee Munroe — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:37:34 +0000

Nice bookshelf Jack, looks very cool. Few books in there I need to get. Between Crush It, Designing For The Web and UX Design, which should I go for next?

Comment on Delete Wordpress Post Revisions by Robbie

Robbie — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:12:13 +0000

The fact that this feature will inevitably fill the database with (in my case, mostly redundant) content hadn’t even occurred to me, so cheers. I’m still paranoid enough about browser crashes to usually draft posts quickly in Things before going near WP!

Comment on Tweet in the Park by Pol McKinney

Pol McKinney — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:52:32 +0000

Interesting little web app mate, not being cool enough to have signed up for twitter but still very impressive framework.

Comment on Working for free by Natalia Ventre

Natalia Ventre — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:28:27 +0000

Working for free means that your work has no value, I think that working pro bono is a much better concept.

Comment on Text Shadow Hover States by Jack Osborne

Jack Osborne — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:57:40 +0000

@Andy That’s a pretty cool website, it’s full to the brim of lovely CSS3 transitions, I’ll be investigating his site more throughout the weekend.

Comment on Text Shadow Hover States by Andy

Andy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:47:24 +0000

Nice. Looks a lot like David Desandro's about page footer links.