Grzegorz Świrski

Smarter way to design your content

Sun, 02 Jan 2011 15:19:00 +0100

Today’s evening I was mulling over alignment of content on friend’s portfolio. After some failed iterations he was near giving up. But, as you propably guessed, you wouldn’t read this if we hadn’t managed to success. It’s all thanks to the brilliant idea that came up by accident.

Write down every single line of text of your future site in one Word (or some more open text editor :) ) file. Start dividing it into blocks of semantically similar pages. Next, think of colligations between them, propose call to actions. Now, you should be comfortable with setting design goals.

Of course, it took a lot of time, but it’s worth it! You can easily hack your brain and destroy creativity block. Moreover, you’ll propably end up with much better copy, which means better conversion rates.

URL Design — Warpspire

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:15:51 +0100

URL Design — Warpspire:

For frontend and backend developers.

Final Eyes

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 16:24:58 +0200

Final Eyes:

Damn beautiful.

Selectivizr - CSS3 selectors for IE 6-8

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 19:02:38 +0200

Selectivizr - CSS3 selectors for IE 6-8:

Should be useful.

OS X pro tip: opening hidden folders in Finder

Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:45:40 +0200

open directory

Yes, it is that simple. I don’t really like showing all dot-files by “hacking” system’s defaults - it’s a mess. Then, this solution saves life if you need the GUI simplicity for basic operations.

TypeKit and Adobe

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:04:11 +0200

TypeKit and Adobe:

Hell yes!

Experimenting with Node.js - Jeff Kreeftmeijer

Mon, 26 Jul 2010 20:31:00 +0200

Experimenting with Node.js - Jeff Kreeftmeijer:

My mind is blown, REALLY.

You definitely should check Node.js’ possibilities out.

UsabilityPost - Guilty

Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:10:00 +0200

UsabilityPost - Guilty:

Feeling guilty seeing unread counter? Interesting approach and maybe a way to improve your conversion rates (sales or something).

Update: I can imagine some systems that could highly benefit from this solution. Think of commercial content management systems with loads of statistics, plugins, switches… Updates subsystem could monitor these things providing not only info about changes in used components, but also news from your sales department (such as a new plugin). Fighting with spam? We’ve just released special tool… Just one click!