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antoniopratas

1 karma · joined November 1, 2012

Designer living in London. www.antoniopratas.com
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antoniopratas··on Started a stupid company. Failed.
Use all the know how you gathered while creating and working on your company. Understand how you fit in a company and what that know-how can make you a valuable asset to the company. Look for a full-time position, leverage your know-how to get a higher position and a bigger salary. Get a job, get everything running, start thinking about a new idea and jump to it again when it's time.
antoniopratas··on Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
that's the most realistic post of them all. And basically what he says here, is what everyone should be doing. Design for your objective, your message, not for a trend. Use flat elements if they are an advantage to your project, use realism if it benefits your message. Basically, use whatever you want that may help you accomplish your objective.
antoniopratas··on Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
but now I see, that most people that like the flat design "trend", probably have no notion of design history and never even heard about the international typographic style. And that worries me, a lot.
antoniopratas··on Flat UI: Free Web User Interface Kit
too bad web design wasn't around already in those days :) it would be akzidenz grotesk in every screen.
antoniopratas··on Is Facebook down?
down in Portugal.
antoniopratas··on Anatomy of a Native Feeling HTML5 iOS App
I don't mean to bust your balls here, because I really like HTML5 and believe that there's some potential there for making apps, but I just installed it, and when offline, the app does nothing besides showing me interface and a loading spinner. Forms will even work, but the view isn't updated and nothing really works.

When I have a connection on it works, but the app asked me for my location, I thought it would give me my currency based on my location, but instead it gave me nothing at all. So I tell you my exact location and get nothing back? Why did I allowed it then?

Overall it's not a really good experience, the modals are cool and the buttons are usable by the fingers, but can't ever mistake it for a native one.

PS: I tried to comment on the blog this exact comment here and the comments were already closed. Maybe too bad comments?

antoniopratas··on The Startup’s Guide to Budget Design
It's really too similar to say that it isn't coming from there, but you can see that he made some work on the logo itself, it's not just a part. And can't we argue that he inspired just on the style of the socket?

In this situation I guess he'll have to contact the designer, confront him with the shutterstock image and hope for an explanation, but what will be the outcome of all this? And isn't it there an extended license to allow full rights of the image?