Adam, Drew and Jared are joined by special guest Sacha Greif, a UI Designer living in Kyoto, Japan and Founder of Folyo. We catch up on tons of topics from The Industry, Facebook IPO’d, we debate the merits of learning to code, realistic drop shadows, font and icon design – plus so much more!

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Show Notes:

• Sacha Greif is originally from Paris, but recently relocated to Kyoto, Japan.
• Sacha is mainly a user interface (UI) designer doing freelancing and originally studied computer science.
• Has been working with several startups, but lately focusing on personal projects such as Folyo.
• Also working on his blog and releasing things like The Toolbox.
• Released an eBook called ‘Step by Step UI Design’ that you should check out if you haven’t already. It’s very good.
• Giving back to the community is important and we support that.
• We’ve got a new writer for The Industry. His name is Jordan Koschei and you can follow him on Twitter @jordankoschei.
• Jordan has already published three articles: ‘The Medium is the Message’, ‘Organized Wonder – discover great content’, and ‘New Rdio’.
• Organized Wonder sorts through the crap.
• The Industry was featured on Flud. Natural succession considering we were also on Pulse.
• Check out the TEDx Talk: ‘The Lollipop Moment’ and subscribe to Coworking Weekly
• Twitter and Github teamed up to work on TwUI open source project.
• Adobe Creative Cloud finally released.
• Helvetica superheroes are out there fighting crime or bad fonts.
• Jared likes Daredevil, Adam likes Captain America, and Drew likes Green Lantern. Sacha says using type with superheroes is the most viral thing to do.
• Facebook acquired Lightbox
• Check out Gradient App
• ‘Buy This Book Before You Buy Facebook: A PandoDaily Expert Guide To The Internet’s Biggest IPO’
• Some big companies pulling their advertising accounts with Facebook such as GM.
• Pinterest is valued at $1.5 billion and the third largest site.
• Pinterest looks to be more directed to an advertising purpose with higher rewards, but their copyrights currently inhibit that desire.
• Sacha points out that Facebook isn’t currently in China.
• Drew says then Facebook will control the world through a Facebook unlock badge.
• Sacha says that Twitter is more popular than Facebook in Japan.
• Sacha really likes CS6, more specifically the changes in Photoshop. Glad Adobe has listened to feedback with more focus on pixel perfection.
• It would be awesome to have Typekit font built into Photoshop and not just an included subscription.
• Check out the making of Octicons
• Want to get into fonts? Glyphs might suit you.
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• Sacha enjoyed the ‘CSS arrow, please!’ project so much that he was inspired to create ‘The Toolbox’ and told the world how he did it too!
• Sacha wanted to see how quick he could go from the state of an idea to actual launch. Took 10 hours. He used a WordPress theme.
• On launch day: 11,000 visitors. 7,000 daily visitors.
• Upcoming network by Jared coming soon, but he is quiet right now.
• Sacha wrote a post called, ‘Please Learn to Code’ in response to ‘Please Don’t Learn to Code’ by Jeff Atwood which is a response to the hype of all these coders saying everyone should learn to code.
• What’s your take on this?
• Stop Using Curved Drop Shadows, but Mikael Eidenberg proved it.
• Drew uses some “realistic” CSS techniques in Dialog.gs
• Design can be realistic or abstract.
• Sacha believes that if you decide one way or the either you need to go ALL IN.
• SPONSOR LOVE!! Teehan+Lax has these free (with option to donate), awesome GUI PSD downloads. See and download them here. They also have a blog worth checking out.
• Fictive Kin, people behind Brooklyn Beta, Gimme Bar, and TeuxDeux have partnered up with Betaworks. Big day for them and read their special announcement here.
• Check out CSS Hat, which translates Photoshop layer styles to CSS3
• Drew would like to design in a Photoshop type program with a web-kit canvas. Execute this, please!
• Layer Cake is also something worth checking out.
• Drew is so ‘disorganized’. He doesn’t label his layers and doesn’t use guides. Whatever works.
• “With great power comes great responsibility.” – Sacha, in reference to the design debate over CSS Hat and Layer Cake.
• Check out CSS3 Clouds if you haven’t already.
• Did you see the slight update to Dribbble? Removal of sidebar on the homepage along with symbols for activity and upload.
• For a limited time (ends June 7th) there is a new Dribbble t-shirt on United Pixelworkers designed by Jon Contino.
• Need a powerful and scalable backed to kickstart/bootstrap mobile apps? Drew highly recommends Parse for iOS and Android.
• SPONSOR LOVE!! Folyo by Sacha is helping startups find great designers. Use The Industry as a reference to get 20% off.
• Check out LocomotiveCMS, which is an open source CMS for Rails that integrates with Heroku and Amazon S3. Also on GitHub.
• If you haven’t already, check out The Noun Project, which are use on Svbtle.
• Drew thinks The Noun Project is great. The more people see this kind of icons the more they buy them.
• Sacha likes Pictos because they all have the same style for UI purposes.
• Drew thinks that if The Noun Project is trying to standardize the visual language (icons) they are going about it the wrong way. What’s your take?