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There’s a new kid on the block and I think it’s quite interesting. Its name is Instabuck and it aims to help you sell easily your digital product. “Easily” is the keyword.
Modern times imposed the use of modern products. Most of them are digital ones such as music, art, books, design themes, code and the list keeps on. Instabuck is a very simple website. However it engages a powerful mechanism which makes selling easy.
This is a project of the mighty Venture Geeks and it is developed around the Minimum Viable Product strategy. My involvement had to do with designing the main website and the available themes among others.
There are lots to be said about Instabuck, its philosophy and the design decisions, but I feel we need to give it some time to breath and evolve.
Until then I suggest you to take a look at Instabuck and become a member in case you want to sell a digital product. Registration takes seconds and the service remains free for the 7 first days. I hope you ‘ll like it.
When I saw the article I thought “What? I don’t consider my design to be minimalistic.” Then I slowed down and saw how ridiculous was my thought. Who cares what I believe? These good people on The Design Mag selected my design and put it among some exceptional ones, it’s an honour.
Many times I see my website being among “the X best ones”. When I was younger I took such mash-ups very seriously. Now I don’t. Also, never ignore them.
And then came one more thought: does it matter? What does this (tiny or important) recognition means for me? Nothing at all.
Which is of course wrong. Again. It means something, if not I wouldn’t bother sharing the news with the people I follow on the social networks. Such showcases add fuel to the machine. It may last long or it may not. But it is something.
Then I stopped thinking at all. And all I did was to accept the fact. It felt OK.
Kern Type is a beautifully designed, short, online game about kerning (If you have an iPad, you’ll enjoy the game even more). And what’s kerning?
According to Wikipedia:
Kerning is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.
We shouldn’t confuse kerning with tracking.
Kerning is the adjustment of the space between individual letter forms vs. tracking which is the uniform adjustment of spacing applied over a range of characters.
I enjoyed Kern Type so much that I decided to brag a bit. Here’s my score:
I think Erik Spiekermann is one of the most, if not the most, important person of our times when it comes to typography. Elliot Jay Stocks is a very talented, a very clever, an absolutely fantastic Web designer. But you already know that.
Here they are together, talking about typography. What’s more to ask for?
In the world of online advertising, I feel we’ve gone too far away from what everybody knows as “common sense”. I can’t undersrtand why we keep running a model that it is obviously sick.
I predict that in 2050, we’ll look back at the first 20 years of the web and shake our heads. The craptacular design! The hallucinogenic business models! The privacy nightmares! All because entrepreneurs convinced themselves that they couldn’t do what inventors have done for centuries: Charge people a fair price for things they want.
What’s new in this version? First of all more HTML5 love. Now the layout uses native HTML5 tags as the main containers of content. To do so I had to add some JavaScript in order not to break it in older browsers. Speaking of browsers, I left Internet Explorer 6 and 7 behind. For good.
This fresh design is better defined on the screen and it focuses on the projects which were stupidly neglected. Once again, this new approach takes readability very seriously. I think now there are more reasons to stay here, see more pages and enjoy them.
Regarding responsiveness, yes, this is a responsive design. I created 5 different layouts according to various screen resolutions. Responsive designs work better when you start from the content out.
The platform wich fuels this website is Expression Engine of course. It’s a very simple installation with only one add-on.
Last but not least, this new version, has more content, better written and edited.
