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#14: Retina all the things, Octicons, Pictos 4, Foundation 3 and the new Twitter logo

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Adam, Drew and Jared are joined by two special guests from GitHub, Jon Rohan and Cameron McEfee, to catch up on the latest topics from The Industry. We share our thoughts on the WWDC announcement of the Retina MacBook Pro, graphics going vector, building icon sets like Octicons, Pictos 4 and Symbolset, Off Canvas Layouts and Foundation 3 by ZURB (rebuilt with Sass), Valio Con, Cheddar, Twitter’s New Logo – plus so much more!

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  • http://twitter.com/warnerchad Chad Warner

    Where can I download an MP3? I don’t see it enclosed in the RSS feed, and I don’t see a download link here.

  • http://twitter.com/warnerchad Chad Warner

    I noticed there’s also http://radio.theindustry.cc/. I subscribed to the feed there (http://radio.theindustry.cc/5269.rss), and that one has the MP3s enclosed.

    My problem was that I had been subscribed to http://theindustry.cc/category/podcast/feed/.

  • http://twitter.com/dougoftheabaci Doug Stewart

    I just wanted to follow up on something mentioned in the podcast. The golden ratio (it’s a ratio, not an equation as both sides don’t equal each other) does actually have some benefit to your design. I don’t know why exactly, but when humans view things that are laid out by the golden ratio we find them more visually pleasing. When you take the most beautiful people in the world and measure their faces you often find that, apart from being highly symmetric, many of the distances from one part of their face to another conform to this golden ratio.

    The same holds true for design on a page. If you show a group of people two designs that are slightly different but one conforms to the golden ratio and the other does not a larger portion of the group will invariably prefer the one that does conform.

    It is, by no means, the only ratio people adhere to, either. We also are big fans of perfect symmetry (1:1 ratio) and the rule of thirds (three rows of three columns of equal size).

    So it doesn’t do nothing for a design for it to conform to 1:1.618 in some way. There is a tangible difference in how people view the site. And the argument I would make is that someone who likes the site, even if they can’t put their finger on why, is going to be more forgiving when you screw up and more open to CTAs when you don’t.

    I mean, this is why we use grids in the first place. Humans like neatness and patterns. We like like it to be interesting and not sterile while it’s there, but we like it as an underlaying framework.