It’s nothing new. It’s everything fad. The parallax effect has been around for years in classic video games, but it recently came a trend in the web design world. Here’s my limited white list.

Boy Meets World, cassette decks in the mini-van, the mall, pogs, note-passing, mechanical pencils, dial-up. All the things that designed my tween years.

The title says it all, folks. Some people are like “eh” as others are like “WTF”. Will you still be using Instagram when this billion dollar sale is concluded? My thoughts as a user of both of applications.

More than seven miles will be liberated from cars for CicLAvia, an organization of bike riders and people who use alternative modes of transportation and organize events in Los Angeles.

I caught a glimpse of Amazon’s redesign. The default drop down menu on the left navigation is very similar to something Google tried late 2011.

GOOD is inviting creatives to a Design Hackathon, a challenge on the theme of 21st-century citizenship. Winners of the most innovative design will have a chance to work alongside GOOD’s product team.

To the metropolis that once was, Detroit is a loved paradise of fat whiskeys, strong local communities, and a well of hope.

A good bike is hard to come by. Standing at 5’0″, a desirable 45-47cm frame doesn’t appear in bike shops all too often without a high price. Here’s the story on how I found Ray – my first love in Los Angeles.

The pace in a way that technology has created has not taken into account the time needed for culture to change. What is the role of the designer today?

Came across this Reddit thread where I pulled out a lot of things that resonated with me. Original post called “I’m not as smart as I thought I was”.

Cyberspace is wearing black today. We’re not in mourning but we could be. Today’s stance against SOPA and PIPA is unique in that it’s a global protest making anyone with a browser open an involved participant.

No matter what the city has lost, there has always been some kind of entertainment happening. And entertainment is what could turn it all around.

Maybe because it’s winter that more people have or motivated to edit now. But there’s been a lot of great stuff appearing my Youtube and Vimeo homepage this week. Here are the favorites.

Rolling out over the next few weeks, Twitter’s new design aims to simplify things a bit with four prominent tabs—Home, Connect, Discover and Me.

The website that is empowering me right now be a healthier and better employee is The Work Cycle. It’s an on-going web-based celebration of the working cyclist and their commuter vehicle of choice, the bike.