1. You smile that spanking-kind-of-smile when you use the CSS property: padding-bottom.
2. You know exactly what I’m referring to when I say “Make my logo bigger”.
3. Every now and then you go through a ‘herbal tea’ phase to try and reduce your dependence to coffee, but you always go back to the inky demon eventually.
4. You’ve caught yourself more than once hitting CTRL or CMD+N when you need a coffee refill…
5. Sleep and nighttime are no longer irrevocably linked.
6. You have woken up in the middle of the night your sleep and started recreating the dream you just had in Photoshop.
7. When getting up, you wish you had a healing brush/patch tool for those unsightly blemishes and undereye luggage.
8. Your keyboard could definitely be someone’s grocery list - you’re eating there constantly.
9. You know several Photoshop shortcuts that require 4 fingers
   (Shift+Ctrl+Alt+K anyone?).
10. Whenever you see fog on a forested hillside, you think, nature is making a gaussian blur.
11. You’re sitting in the movie theater watching the movie titles, shaking your head at how badly they’re kerned.
12. Your biggest fear is Papyrus becoming the new Comic Sans.
13. If you could go back in time you wouldn’t go back to see the rise and fall of civilizations, you’d go back in time to destroy Comic Sans and Papyrus.
14. Your most romantic date was when you went to see Helvetica by Gary Hustwit.
15. You’ve considered naming your children things like ‘Kern’, ‘Pica’, ‘Bézier’, ‘Nyala’, and ‘Serif’.
16. You are trying catch the post-it notes at your monitor with your cursor.
17. You know that, by default, if three designs are shown to a client, your least favorite will be chosen - or any combination of worst components of each.
18. You also know that if you ask for more copy it will be sent as a Jpeg; If you ask for images they will be sent as PowerPoint presentations; if you ask for a vector logo, it’ll come in the form of a Gif – from their website.
19. You have an uncanny ability to automatically see when something is lined up properly without the need for tools or devices, for instance if a shelf is straight, and where the center of the wall is to hang a picture.
20. And as a direct cause, get an almost uncontrollable urge to adjust a painting that’s tilted ever so slightly.
21. And when in doubt, you automatically think CTRL or CMD+;
22. When girls are picking up Vogue and Cosmopolitan drooling over the latest trend in eye makeup and trying to figure out how to accomplish the the same effect, you’re drooling over the most amazing 2 page advertising spread you’ve ever seen - trying to figure out how to accomplish the the same Photoshop effect…
23. You actually understand this post and pass it on to your fellow geeks friends.

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Iceland from Eva Sturm on Vimeo.

I spend my days working hard to keep things simple: gathering all the ideas that could go into a product (good and bad) and paring these down to the most effective and usable user experience possible. So, Mark Twain’s quote resonates:

I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

So whether it applies to a letter to your best friend, the model of an interaction with the world around you, the flow of a process, or the way you set up your living room, simplicity rules.

Thanks to the folks at Zen Habits for addressing the subject directly.

Here’s a great nugget from Pare It Down: Cut Away the Extraneous to Leave the Awesome on things to consider when paring down:

• Spend a few minutes thinking about what is really essential. What is it that you really want above all else? What is it about your product or service that the customer really wants? What is it you are really trying to communicate? If you had to pick one thing about whatever you’re doing, what would it be?
• Be bold. Don’t be afraid to throw stuff out. You can always add stuff back in later — remember that less is better as long as you’re leaving in the essentials.
• What is blocking the essentials? Sometimes the awesome in something is being blocked by other things — can you remove those things to show the awesome and let it shine? Remove the noise to let the music be heard.
• Come back to it. Sometimes you can’t see the extraneous the first time you start paring down. So do your best, and then come back later and try again. You might be able to pare down even more this time. Keep coming back as long as you can — the more you pare, the better in most cases.

Via Engaget

Content Aware Scaling in Photoshop CS4 from arturogoga on Vimeo.

I’ve been biding my time. Waiting… You know when someone tells you that your cell phone looks like it belongs to a construction worker, something is wrong. Not that I have anything against construction workers, but I do fancy myself a bit of a geek. It’s difficult to walk around with a bulky, grungy, big hunk of plastic that I speak into from time to time. I operate methodically, though. I don’t jump on the bandwagon and buy into the next big thing. I wait.

I’ve been very tempted to purchase an iPhone. Must wait to see and touch the Android and the Storm first.

Luckily Gizmodo has broken down the Smartphones OSes for us.  I’m a step closer to making the decision.