Newscope Part 2: The Mini-Extreme Makeover
When I decided to go freelance, I could have chosen to sell my services from another domain, separating personal from work stuff. There are a couple of reasons why I chose to keep things here at Noscope, the first and foremost being that keeping things here was the quick and easy thing to do. Secondly, [...]
Newscope: Master Plan
Change is afoot! I have decided it is time to try something new. For me, that means focusing on my art. Thusly, I have quit my damn fine fulltime-job at Titoonic and decided to go freelance.
This is a big step for me. I have consciously quit a challenging, interesting job at an innovative company [...]
The New Noscope [Update]
And so, without much fanfare, here is the new design for Noscope. Lots and lots of things have changed, especially behind the scenes. Equally many are still broken or being upgraded. Lots of this to be fixed, updated or added soon.
Until that happens, here’s your chance to vent. Please, no bug reports yet, my own [...]
Wallpapers, Updated
The Noscope wallpaper section has been updated. It is now draped in a proper port of my Pangea design with a few tweaks here and there, and I have updated the sections to be simpler and fewer. Now, dive into wallpaper categories like “Lights”, “Illustrations”, “Photos” or the new “Generative”, which (currently) features a single [...]
Pangea: A Challenge
Pangea is the title of the upcoming design for Noscope. For this redesign, I will be needing a plain div box to place content in. In my mockups, the box looks like this:
It’s a fairly straight-forward box with four borders and an angled top-right corner. The markup looks like this:
<div class="box">
content
</div>
Now for the challenge: not [...]
Embarking on a Redesign
Sometimes, a restructuring is necessary. Throw out all the old, and bring in the new.
When To Redesign
There is no finite formulae that when used to crunch numbers while wearing white lab coats can tell you exactly when you need to redesign.
On one side there’s the hot-air department who says: “Redesign every sixth month! Next time [...]