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140 Characters Just Isn’t Enough

Critiques are a core component of working and participating in a design community. Thoughtful analysis of the design of any product or service can be incredibly helpful for both the creator and as a result, the end user. Critiques, however, cannot be accomplished in 140 characters for the most part. I’m already feeling myself sliding down the “rant” rabbit ho...
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Sublime Text 3 Beta Released

This morning brought some good, and fairly unexpected, news regarding the Sublime Text editor. A new major release has now entered beta and is available for registered users to try out. Yes, that’s right Sublime Text 3 is ready for you to try out. Version 2 gained significant popularity amongst all sorts of different folks that utilize text editors, and even som...
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Show Your Code: Use Github to Maintain Your Code Portfolio

Designers are used to maintaining some sort of portfolio to showcase the work they’ve done in the past. In fact, classes taken as part of a higher education degree program in this area will even have at least some focus on helping its students build some sort of portfolio. It’s a tool used to prove competency when the designer is ready to find work. It’s just pa...
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Marvin: An Intelligent eReader That Will Transform Your iPad Experience

I think we can all agree by now that the iPad has proven itself useful in all sorts of different situations. In fact, it seems that new uses pop up quite regularly as the hardware improves and app developers explore new and interesting ways to use the device. One of the original uses, that I’ll argue is still one of the most popular ones, is reading. The iPad is ...
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Font Custom: Make Your Own Icon Fonts

Icons speak a language. It’s one of the most ancient forms of communicating ideas and telling stories. A thing or two has changed since those early days of cave wall etching, but the strategy is still the same in our digital world today. Icons have been used to varying degrees of usefulness from the beginning of the web. Up until fairly recently, the best way to ...
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Mixture: The Web Developer’s Life Just Got Easier

At The Industry, we try to view the digital world with an eye critical to design. While others were covering the actual release of iTunes 11, we were talking about how iTunes and iOS are converging from a user interface perspective. There are times when we’re able to talk about a seemingly utilitarian application or service can be looked at from a similar perspec...
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Front-End Learning and Exploration with CodePen

Front-end designers and developers learn from each other. The community is essentially built around this attitude. The more experienced folks in the field help to teach the next crop coming up through the ranks, and so on. It’s an incredibly open and engaging field. However, looking at source code and reading blog posts only goes so far into explaining web design an...
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37signals Invests in The Starter League

This week brought some interesting news to the Chicago tech community. 37signals made their first investment in another company. Yes, that’s right. Their first. The Starter League, a Chicago web development education start-up that has been in existence for less than a year, reached an agreement to sell a non-voting share of their company to the web app development c...
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My Code Editor: A Workflow Realization

As designers and developers, we use many different applications and tools in our everyday lives. This group is a constantly changing, continuously morphing toolbox that enables us to get to the desired end product of any project as efficiently and easily as possible. The center piece of this group, for this crowd, is undoubtedly the code editor. I had a conversatio...
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Sublime Text 2 Available

Developers of all kinds spend hours and hours working in text editors and it’s safe to say that everyone has their favorite. Today one of the latest additions to many favorite lists has been released out into the wild. That’s right, Sublime Text 2 is out of beta and now officially at version 2.0. Sublime Text 2 has been in beta for some time. The alpha...
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