Items of Interest

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Julie Clawson reviews the section of “Jesus I Have Loved, But Paul?” that discusses women in the story of God. She gives a great summary of what’s going on, and also raises the discussion to another level.

January 16, 2012

bible / julie clawson / new testament / paul

“An interface that is truly inclusive of all kinds of users is one that begins with only the fundamentals and then evolves and adapts alongside the user.”

January 16, 2012

design / user experience

Fascinating piece on imperialist tendencies in design. It’s long, but worth a careful read.

January 16, 2012

colonialism / design

“The vast majority of fonts contain lowercase and uppercase alphabets, numerals, punctuation and accents. But there can be much more to fonts than this basic set of characters. Many professionally-designed fonts also contain ligatures, alternative characters, smallcaps, different kinds of numbers, and sometimes much more besides.”

January 14, 2012

css / css3 / design / typography

“Using CSS transitions can be quite fun. But what’s not fun is when you want to transition something that needs to use display:none or visibility:hidden (or really, any non-transitionable property).”

January 14, 2012

css / css-transitions / css3 / design

Among the easiest, but most often overlooked, usability enhancements for ecommerce: auto-detecting the credit card type that is being used.

January 14, 2012

design / javascript / usability / user experience

“I’m often asked what defines a good experience map. You could call an experience map a deliverable, although, as the current 4-letter word of UX, that may make some people gag a little bit. But really, it’s a model. A model on steroids. It’s an artifact that serves to illuminate the complete experience a person may have with a product or service.”

January 14, 2012

adaptive path / design / user experience

A meditation on Isaiah 2:5-22. “Culture is not optional and cities are not optional… culture may not be optional, but neither is it determined.”

January 12, 2012

bible / cities / hebrew-bible / isaiah

Anil Dash thinks Foursquare is today’s best-executing startup, and gives his reasons for thinking this. A perceptive way of looking at what makes a startup good.

January 11, 2012

design / product design

Andrew Jones reflects on his Asian travels from 2011, and the practices that are sustaining new communities of Jesus followers in countries there. Fascinating things.

January 11, 2012

andrew jones / church / ministry