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It’s been over a week since I’ve had a working version of the picklet builder in my development environment. Getting antsy. I’ve been refactoring a bunch of the interface stuff to enable better manipulation of the picklet representation – adding, removing, reordering panels and layers.
In addition I’ve been significantly changing the layout of [...]
This week’s todo list looked like this;
mon: drafts popover, clarify response dispatch tue: pages, layers popovers wed: cache images on draft create thu: render panel images on draft create fri: in-picklet navigation (at least prev/next)Important wins for the week include reworking draft handling into a popover and dialog, and making local copies of [...]
While playing with icon design last week I came up with the idea of horizontally flipping that character that’s used to indicate end-of-paragraph in word processing software. Turning it into a ‘P’. And it’s got elements of ‘I’ and ‘T’ as well, and carries associations with print and page layout, and writing.
The OSX [...]
In which the author drinks a decaf flat white at Newtown Social Club, works a short day at the floating desk, and ends with a merry hour of coding on the train to the country for weekend.
Sometimes it’s not worth going to the Photoshop to make mockups. Case in point – picklet draft [...]
On Monday I started with a coffee at the Black Cat, and by sorting out a mess I’d made of PickletDraft forms on the weekend. Needed to get my ‘admin’ interface out of the way of making a good ‘author’ experience.
Back home I designed and implemented a basic draft review process in order [...]
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