July 2005

Digg Design

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Over the past couple of months, I've been working with Kevin Rose on his enormously successful new venture Digg.com — a news aggregation website with a twist. Digg is sort of social bookmarking mixed with peer reviewing, so someone submits a link to a technology story they thought was cool and, if …

GNU's Really Not Unix

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Congrats to silverorange alumnus and all-round talented designer Geoff Gibson for winning the latest snowboard design contest put on by GNU snowboards. The horror-themed contest had some great entries, so Geoff's design was in good company. I think he wins a new snowboard that he can strap to his …

Writing the Tour

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At the moment, I don't have a television so I've been following the Tour de France entirely online. Surprisingly, the experience of reading about bike racing is almost as good as watching the highlights on television.  •  Pre-race, the T-Mobile team site had a great little series of diary entries …

Tokkii Tees

Everyone's favorite dog, Tokkii, is now selling fantastic t-shirts for the ladies. Well, Tokkii's friend and provider of food and shelter, the lovely and talented Iva Olah, has started a small business making custom shirts.  •  Iva's making all of the shirts herself starting with American Apparel …

Hot Hot Heat

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The title for this post has nothing to do with the band and everything to do with the heat. The only thing lamer than a weblog post explaining why one hasn't been posting on one's weblog is when the key excuse for such tardiness is the blinding heat. It's been over thirty degrees centrigrade now …

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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I'm not currently looking for any kind of work and sometimes I take a long time to respond to email, but if you'd like to contact me please send an email to daniel [at] deltatangobravo [dot] com

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I tweet when the mood strikes at Twitter

I sometimes review products on Silverorange Stuff

I sell my amateur photography on Clustershot

I post some of my personal photos on Flickr

I used to contribute on the Digg Weblog

I connect with people I actually know in the real world on Facebook

This Blog

The technology that powers this blog was built by silverorange on their Swat open-source web application toolkit. I'm no longer working on day-to-day projects at silverorange, but they're available for hire if you're looking for top-notch interface design or web application development.

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