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kyleconrad

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About kyleconrad

Sarcastic. Sing in the car. Love chucks and Wayfarers. I design and build things. Senior interactive designer at nclud.

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    Comment #8364907

    Haha I know, I know - I tried to get a few different domain names before settling on this one. Fingers crossed that there's enough context around the link (and whatever metadata th…

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    Comment #8364904

    Oh man, thanks for the link! Super excited about that. I like the idea of individual characters, I could see having locations with different colored markers for their origins/birth…

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    Comment #8364894

    Ohhhh I love this idea. Days of Future Past, Age of Apocalypse... hmmm. Might have to look into those events to check out some locations.

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    Comment #8364749

    Agreed entirely - there's a set of Google Maps utility tools that Google put out that tie into the API and I'm actually using the markers with labels one to show the markers as it …

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    Comment #8364739

    Yeah, I actually just changed it to a simple zoom with no pan about an hour ago. I was using an interval to adjust the zoom function with the Google Maps API, but everyone said it …

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    Comment #8362528

    Cross-posted this to Designer News, but just wanted to share it here as well as I just finished building and deploying this morning. Ever since Marvel announced their API, I've bee…

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    Comment #7792270

    Because they're the ones hiring agencies, deciding mood and content based on presented ideas, and then approving and revising design throughout the process.

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    Comment #7791791

    Clients drive design 99.9% of the time. Clients like it because they think the cool kids are doing it. Clients also like gimmicky scroll effects and parallax.