Host: Joey Primiani, Daniel Brusilovsky and Brian Wong
Guest: Shahed Khan

Young entrepreneurs give their vision of the future of technology.
Topics: Kids in the valley, guess that business model & the latest bubbling trend.

I’m honored to be featured on the 25 under 25 list. Thank you to all and my amazing team for making it possible.

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I had so much fun redesigning Gawker that I had to do another one, they also really liked it. I love FratMusic, it has the latest songs and hottest remixes. The goal is simple – go to the website and start playing awesome party music. Thank god for FratMusic. Where else could you find Brohemian Dubsody and all the other beautiful synthetic designing music? Many of my designs are inspired directly by electronic dubstep.

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Noticeable changes:
* Revamped player
* Moving playhead to indicate place in song, can scrub left/right to rewind/forward
* Large controls for play/pause and volume
* Inverted color scheme; it is much harder for people to parse white on black than black on white
* Pushed secondary and tertiary actions and items to the footer below the fold
* Simplified logo/brand

It is no surprise that Gawker’s new design is driving people away. The reasons are simple: there is less content on the page and page load time is significantly slower. This is my attempt at redesigning the site to its optimal. Please note, I am designing with the ultimate goal of increased page views in mind. If there are other user happiness success metrics that Gawker has that I am not aware of, it is not addressed with this first stab design.

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Noticeable changes:
* Top navigation is clear and consistent between homepage and leaf pages
* The right side increases user stickiness and discovery to similar articles (like YouTube)
* More of the article above the fold
* Overall visual design is less heavy and bulky
* Simpler and added colors to add some fun – more appropriate for a gossip site
* Larger header fonts – using Helvetica
* Modern and simple logo & brand
* Simplified commenting system, using jpComments to increase community engagement
* Occam’s razor is your best friend

Love to hear your thoughts in the comments below.

I am super excited to launch Cortex (cortexapp.com) along with the Chrome web store today. Months of design details, development and usability testing went into this, and we are really happy with it. Our goal is to build beautiful products, specifically ones that people use on a daily basis.

Since I showed it off on TWiT with Leo Laporte back in August, we’ve had over 1,500 beta users sign up! Thank you to our beta testers for giving us great feedback and big congrats to our lead developer Eric Wolf for making it all possible too.

We want to do one thing really well and that is sharing fast while providing the absolute best user experience. Enjoy!

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iPhone 4 Halloween costume custom built by my friend John Savio. See all pictures on Facebook and more videos will be up soon. This was way too much fun to play with!

[UPDATE] Check out the full official version I shot here (cameo at 2:02) and news coverage. This was literally shot, edited and on the news in less than 24 hours.

iPhone 4 featured here at 10x to scale, complete with a 40″ LED LCD Panel, a Jailbroken iPhone 4, VGA out from the iPhone, LED Back Camera Light, Vinyl detailing to precision, uses a mini 12v Battery with 2+ hours of battery life (no plug).

Forrst is an amazing community of talented designers and developers. I’ll be posting some of my latest work there. If you are already on it, follow me here.

TWiT Live Specials 32: The Future Of The Web
Host: Abby Laporte
Young entrepreneurs give their vision of the future of technology.
Guests: Daniel Brusilovsky, Mark Bao, Joey Primiani and Brian Wong
Download or subscribe to this show at twit.tv/specials

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Live Video on Justin.tv (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4)

I’ve been watching Leo on TV since I was 12, it was an honor to be on his show and meeting him in person. I accredit much of my love for technology to this day because of him. Due to the success and interest, we are in talks of doing more of a recurring show – in which I am super excited. Stay tuned robots!