The only purpose for me in building a company is so that it can make products. Of course, building a very strong company and a foundation of talent and culture is essential over the long run to keep making great products.

– Steve Jobs

How Designers Built The World Of “The Grand Budapest Hotel” By Hand

February 26, 2015 maxbeattydesignLeave a comment

Anderson’s avoidance of CGI and freakish devotion to handmade, old-fashioned production design lends his latest epic its fantastical charm.

February 16, 2015 maxbeattyLeave a comment

The CTO must protect the technology team from becoming a pure execution arm for ideas without tending to its own needs and its own ideas.

http://whilefalse.blogspot.com/2015/02/cto.html?utm_source=digg&m=1

February 15, 2015June 6, 2016 maxbeattyLeave a comment

How do you choose the right colors for your designs?

January 16, 2015 maxbeattydesignLeave a comment

How do you choose the right colors for your designs?

Designing Adaptive Layouts for iPhone 6

January 9, 2015 maxbeattyLeave a comment

Learn how to design adaptive layouts for iOS using auto layout, constraints, size class traits, and storyboards.

XCode is starting to remind me of my days in Flash where you could get by with drag and drop, and when you need more control, you code.

Designing Adaptive Layouts for iPhone 6

Increasing Sass Build Performance or “When Every Second Counts”

January 6, 2015 maxbeattycssLeave a comment

I’ve been a long time user of Compass and really like it. As I have helped set up many other developers, designers, and other environments (e.g. CI), the ruby dependencies became harder and harder to manage. This is a very interesting proposal to go all node which is easier to set up (for me) and faster overall (a growing complaint from team members).

Increasing Sass Build Performance or “When Every Second Counts”