CROWDCTRL

A non-comprehensive list of quality Utah blogs. Brian’s on there, northtemple too. World famous PlainSimple? CodeDump? CROWDCTRL? Come on! #

Cameron announces his move back to Utah and to the NorthTemple.com team at the LDS Church. Word! #

John Dilworth, in Make Your Small Type a Little Bit Bigger over at Northtemple: “10px type has potentially 38% less resolution than 12px type. Sure you can still make out the words, but you’ve eliminated all the subtleties of hundreds of years of typographic design elements that were put there to make things easier to read.” #

Ted Boren over at Northtemple summarizes the great lesson every interaction designer should learn: “Customers do not always know what they need, or even what they mean by what they say. It’s our job to take requirements, clarify them, push back to the simplest design that meets those requirements—not to play the Yes-Man to our client.” #

For those in Salt Lake City, come over to the LDS Tech Talks downtown on Thursday, January 18th at 6:30p. A few of us from Northtemple will be there to meet and greet and answer questions about working at the Church. #

Was wondering why my Feedburner stats jumped so much Friday and Saturday.. Turns out it was Google Reader finally reporting subscriber numbers. Crowd went up by over 50, and Northtemple’s count went up 150 to almost 400 subscribers.. #

Heading down to Austin for SXSW this year? Join me and the crew from Northtemple for our Northtemple Designer Meetup. Think about this: talk with some of the world’s best designers while you’re sober. Manage to give out business cards without getting beer spilled on you. Head over to nt for the details, and RSVP at Upcoming. See you there. #