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Building Bounce in Sketch

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Season Summary

Turning all the content from my NBA tour into a thing is a challenging problem to solve. I'm currently building the UI for Bounce in Sketch. This is helping me figure out how to break the work up into efficient steps. I'm also finding ways to delve deeper into Sketch's features to truly master the tool.

These guys had a great run.

These guys had a great run.

One of the sections is a brief summary of the team's season with a heat map of their winning and losing streaks. Working from a spreadsheet of results, I built the streak stacks and made them quickly reproducible with the symbol feature. Keyboard and trackpad combos made the layout faster as well.


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We Always Win update

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Hoop Memes

Basketball season is upon us and I’ve put a lot of thought into what to do with We Always Win. There’s been no shortage of ideas over the years but it’s just me working on the page. Execution is largely dependent on my energy level. 

Right now my energy level is high and I’ve been working on ideas. I’ve been designing some features and adding some automation with social media to get more interesting content on the page. Here’s some of the things I’ve committed to so far.

Streak Infograms

I’ll be keeping track of winning and losing streaks this year. Hopefully these will serve as a useful quick glance on who’s hot in the NBA and who’s on the fast track to the lottery. We’re a couple weeks into the season so these have started to appear on the page.

Hat tip to Arthur Skripnik and Cheesefork from the Noun Project for the images.

Hat tip to Arthur Skripnik and Cheesefork from the Noun Project for the images.

Shirts

I’m not sure how many followers I have from the Ball Club days but I’ll be selling t-shirts again. We’ll do our best to put out fresh designs to help you rep your squad.

Hoops Happy Hour

We’ll be having a regular meetup to get basketball-loving techies and creatives together. The goal is to chat, brainstorm, network and enjoy some basketball. If you’re in Austin- holler.

Bounce

The interactive piece on my tour of the NBA is coming along. If you’re an iOS developer for hire hit me up.

Join Us

If you would like to help with the page or would like to collaborate on, please reach out. I can use help with the managing of the Facebook page. I’d like to get into podcasting and need someone who’s good with motion graphics.

If you can help out or make a referral- please comment on this post, hit me up on Twitter or send me an email.

Thanks for your support. Enjoy the season.


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Learning Sketch by recreating NBA Logos (Part 1)

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This summer I started recreating NBA logos in Sketch to learn how to use the software. Here's my progress so far.

I'll share the Sketch file when I'm all done.