Looks great, the interface seems very minimal and easy to use. Voices are well recorded. Overall design could be improved, but at least its not ugly.
Seems very usable. congrats
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Seems very usable. congrats
Although I'd stress not too use too many effects.
I read this recently...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2012/dec/28/2012-in...
and it's just way too disorienting.
Stay subtle :)
You'll feel much better about yourself - it's all about giving.
Good luck, I remember doing a 3 months internship at Agilent Tech yeeaaaarrss ago where at the end I was like - "No way am i ever working in this Dilbert socially backwards environment" Not to say it was a bad place, just not for me.
Since then, I've had 6 or 7 real jobs, in 4 or 5 different industries, travelled round the world, asked loads of questions, tried loads of things and still not satisfied.
It's a tough one, everybody's different and very few people figure 'it' out, hence why you most advice is stupidly simple, short and unhelpful like 'be yourself', 'do what you love', etc... the list goes on.
'Wear sunscreen' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTJ7AzBIJoI
there is a good line in there
"Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives, some of the most interesting 40 year olds I know still don't."
My 2 cents:
- try everything while still young and while your responsibilities are small, and monthly nut is small. It's much more difficult to have a mid life crisis when you need $4000 a month for mortgages, cars and kids.
- don't chase the $$$ - you'll never be as good as the guy who's doing it cause he loves it
- most people aren't satisfied with what they do, which is why books by Tim Ferris and Chris Guillebeau sell so well, they sell the 'dream'
- as far as happiness... others have already said this, purpose tends to help, as well as self expression, the ability to create something is pretty fulfilling too
- ignorance is bliss
when you said "enjoy playing with the latest Apple product, watching TV":
I'd suggest trying out UX Design / Front End Development
UX Design is becoming more and more important, and so is front end development as browsers are getting faster and faster.
Apple has amazing user design, maybe that's what you love about their products, how they feel.
- get good at javascript / html / css
- build a few things in backbone.js
- dig into user design
- redesign some current applications into what you'd like them to look and feel like
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/concept-design-facelift-notable...
- build a UX / front end portfolio
- watch these talks
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/12/22/talks-to-help-you...
http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_experience_design
GOOD LUCK :D
Growing up I remember being obsessed with this: DK The Way Things Work. it was an amazing mac CD ROM with illustrations of everyday things broken down, with moving parts and all...
Probably one of the reason i became an engineer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_Things_Work
http://www.amazon.com/Things-Work-CD-ROM-Version-1-0-mac/dp/...
Horrible Youtube video ( best i could find... ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4MIVU5i_xE
Cannot recommend it enough for kids. They don't make em like they used to :D
is the book on animation, takes you through all the basics and breaks down why disney's animators were just better than everyone else... applicable to css3 / front end development.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Animators-Survival-Richard-William...
If you sell out, at the beginning you might make loads of $$$, it'll be amazing, maybe you'll make more than your dad ever made, maybe you'll buy yourself a 70" TV but trust me... 3 to 5 years in. You'll be that annoying guy that tells all his friends he sold out and really wished to have been an actor, a sportsman, an artist, a musician, an animator.
- Save enough $$$ for 6months of living without work, all of a sudden you'll be a lot pickier on what you work on.
Now for the negatives:
those gradients in your main navigation ( ABOUT, DOWNLOADS, etc... ) is horrible. I see this a lot in bad Wordpress themes. It's dated, looks bad now, and will look worse in 6months.
The blue SEARCH font color on the blue background is a poor contrast choice.
Those Python 2.x, 3.x buttons look terrible too. It's the gradients, remove those inner grey gradients, it doesn't add anything to the buttons, doesn't even make them stand out.
Your code formatting screen looks great.
The responsive layout also needs work. The double navigation bar on ipad doesnt look nice. The search bar on the iphone is WAY too small. that should either be stacked / above / below the nav, not side by side on a 320px screen.
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web design is going flat, with big font types, and big images, everything is square, clean.
http://www.hulu.com/ http://www.uniqlo.com/us/ http://www.ebay.com/new http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/05/the-walking-dead-kill...
Personally i would keep it simple like backbone documentation
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Good job though :)
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Indie_Game_The_Movie/70229...
about indie games
http://blog.jetstrap.com/sample-page/
it's accessible from the footer - SAMPLE PAGE link.
and some more people with similar stories:
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/online/justfab.html
http://www.scambook.com/company/view/146/JustFabcom
http://forum.purseblog.com/the-glass-slipper/justfab-com-sca...
You don't have permission to access /blog/javascript-frameworks-tools-and-techniques-to-create-killer-applications on this server.
Personally, all that positivity, whether from randoms or your mum never really helped me. Weirdly I found articles like this to bring me up for a couple of days.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405311190480030457647... How Depression affected people like Lincoln, Churchill and Ghandi.
I guess the thought that even the greats battled great adversity and resistance helps. How's that for a Nietzchian thought.