R3-Launch

24 Feb

Today I’m both re-designing my site and re-joining a community that I’ve been absent from for awhile. It’s nice to be back, internet.

Release 3 of RobGoodlatte.com is about focus. Ditch the right column, the useless metadata, and the esoteric ways to browse my archive. Focus on content and (hopefully) discussion — no need to clutter the experience with widgets, feeds, and noise.

The new design carries forward and improves upon a few successful elements of the previous design. Focusing on fewer core elements makes this version of the site feel much more intentional to me.

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Facebook Design

The Facebook Design team just launched a public profile on Facebook. We’ll be sharing our design philosophy, processes, and content we find interesting.

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Jun 29, ‘09

Choosing Simple

An un-remarkable design noticeably boosted Facebook’s registration rate. Simple designs are often best, but can can be a difficult goal to reach.

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Jun 20, ‘09

Flow Theme for WordPress

Introducing Flow, a new WordPress theme that solves the liquid layout problem by dynamically scaling text based on window width.

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Feb 25, ‘09

Syncotype Your Baselines

I often have trouble aligning text and graphics horizontally on the Web. To help horizontally-challenged designers like myself, Wilson Miner wrote a fantastic guide for building pages on a baseline grid. If you do the math right it works beautifully — but I often find myself tweaking and nudging to get every last element snapped [...]

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Jul 31, ‘07