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Let the Fold Breathe

Shaza has been planning and designing websites for quite a while now and in recent years, the same notes keep creeping into our clients' revision request: "Reduce the header height, move sections upward, try to keep everything above the fold." Here's why you should stop worrying about the fold. Keep Reading

Process

Why Higher Education Is Overrated and Skills Aren’t

It is painfully clear to many employers [that there] are serious gaps between elite educational credentials and actual individual competence. College transcripts spackled with As and Bs — particularly from liberal arts and humanities programs — reveal less about a candidate’s capabilities than most serious employers need to know. Keep Reading

Projects

Launching Real Soon

Stampede v3 is the most ambitious project we have done for ourselves. But when it is finally launched, you may find it look way simpler than the actual effort - that is because the team members share the very same values that have prevailed ever since the early days of Stampede. Watch out for us. Keep Reading

Team

What I Like About Webcamp KL

Webcamp, to borrow the term, is a series of free events in the spirit of BarCamp with specific focus on topics related to "working" on the internet. It's a great place to catch up with the Malaysian web community and finally associate faces to names you often hear blogging and follow, maybe even stalk, on Twitter. Keep Reading

Process

In Absolute Awe of Irina Vinnik

Irina Vinnik is an illustrator and designer from St Petersburg, Russia. I can read a little of Russian but you don't have to speak the language to appreciate the painstaking details she perfected in each of her elaborate illustrations. Her first book published recently, "The World of Dolls: Stories and Legends", probably excites designers more than their children. Keep Reading

Team

On-Campus Interview

You are an IT student, black circles under your eyes from that last attempt at submitting your Final Year Project in one coherent piece. You have an interview with a web company and you've heard all sort of cautionary tales and advise about your future career. Suddenly you feel like an underdog. Ain't life grand. Keep Reading

Stories

Weekly Bits #1

Small roundup of visually interesting things that we came across the web for the past 7 days. It's our own time-capsule so when we get old and cranky, we'll be reminded of the era of awesome. Keep Reading

Stories

3 Years Later…

It's crazy. It has been three years since Bird Malaysia first launched and we're still getting reviews from design galleries and making it into "n-list of Website with Awesome footer/navigation/header/color Design" blog posts. Keep Reading

Stories

Be Sparing

Shaza's earliest memory of books was when her dad took her to her first book fair on his hip Scrambler bike. It was a noisy piece of metal but it was yellow and she loved it. Where others have gadgets and tutorials to help them get better with design, she has her trusty, unassuming, delicious books. Keep Reading

Team

The Bull Retrospect

Shaza reminisces about the good times and the bad times during what happened last year. But it all boils down to this - we swear it was pure coincidence that Stampede had a blast throughout the Year of the Ox. Keep Reading