Isaac Keyet

There are three short films in the Bendito Machine series (so far, don’t know if more are planned). This one I discovered just now, and I’m amazed by the detail and perfection in the artwork. Check it out and fall in love.

A few days ago we went live with some new user menus for the IntenseDebate plugin. I’ve made the design of course, and while they’re meant to resemble the looks of the old menus in a lot of ways, there are some notable differences. The most striking change is of course the avatar being a part of the popup as this was not the case before. An enlarged avatar gives the reader a more personal and complete insight in a user profile.

The goal for the redesign was to remove non-vital elements from the menu, items that you’re probably not interested in until you know the other stuff anyway. It now shows the username in large letters, along with the reputation meter. If you have enabled your latest twitter messages, and have a description as well, now both will show – not one or the other like it was before. This is true for the IntenseDebate.com profile as well.

Of course I’m going for pixel-perfect, clean, and with fancy effects once you notice them. Hint: The “border” around the avatar is actually a semi-transparent sweet-looking box, and all buttons have fancy :hover and :active effects. All in a single CSS sprite of course. Hope you like it!

This blog is not all about YouTube, I promise.. But this video was just awesome.

If you’re reading this in a reader, you might want to click through to the actual web page (www.isaackeyet.com/blog) to see the beauty. It’s a minor update but still refreshing if you ask me. Will touch it up a bit again soon when I have the inspiration. A design update is coming to my personal swedish blog as well.

I was actually pleasantly surprised when I discovered this new advertisement type on YouTube the other day, it’s a large bar that goes across the bottom of the video that tells the name of the song, displays some artwork if available AND links to services where you can buy and download the song. How awesome is that? Go YouTube!