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Mat Marquis shows the issues with the various techniques folks have come up with for responsive images, and also proposes a way forward that involves the creation of a new HTML element. It would be a fantastic thing, indeed.

February 1, 2012

design / html / html5 / responsive design

The kind of things that the Upstatement folks learned while designing the responsive version of the Boston Globe. Looks at design software, strategies for breakpoints, and designing stuff in the browser. Fantastic snapshot of maybe the best way of doing this right now.

January 30, 2012

css / design / responsive design

“There are many models for uprooting oppression in our communities. To offer one of many, the Hosanna! People’s Seminary approach is to discern particular areas of privilege and poverty within a community through a three part process: awareness of privilege and oppression in the community; accountability in the community to the oppressed party and to the continued education and development of the privileged party through ally training; and solidarity in relationship with the oppressed party or those allying with the oppressed party outside of the community.”

January 20, 2012

activism / community / jesus-radicals

“Designing for the next step is a fundamental problem of interaction design. Almost every screen we design, be it in an app or marketing website, can be improved by really focusing on the steps and sequences of steps a user goes through. In our haste we often speed up the process too much, get steps out of order, fail to present an appropriate next step, or otherwise break the sequence. By re-assessing your app or site in light of these potential errors, you can discover the sequence and timing that your users need to successfully make it to the next step.”

January 20, 2012

design / interaction design / user experience

Using media queries and the multiple columns module to split text into columns.

January 19, 2012

“Let’s stop doing everything our curiosity asks, and instead start asking some things of it.”

January 18, 2012

content strategy / writing

A fantastic-looking blog series on iOS development from a web developer. Like many web folks, I often get ideas for iPhone apps I’d like to build “when I have the time” but I’ve never learned Objective C. So I need things like this.

January 17, 2012

objective-c / programming

“Ultimately this boiled down to one core concept: pairing designers with developers. Constant interaction with developers is what sparked Bootstrap and continues to drive its development over a year later. From whiteboarding ideas to coding rough prototypes, collaborating across disciplines is what made Bootstrap successful for internal use at Twitter.”

January 17, 2012

a list apart / design / programming

“If we want to really show what design is and what it can do, we need to get design elevated to the partner level. Partners have major equity stakes, real decision-making power, and are involved in product development from the beginning. The design team must feel that it has both the authority to make product decisions and the responsibility for the outcome of those decisions.”

January 17, 2012

a list apart / business / design

Andrew Sullivan takes a long view at Obama’s presidency, and explains why he should be re-elected. He gets through the spin quite well.

January 17, 2012

andrew sullivan / obama / politics