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December 22, 2013
a list apart / design / responsive design
Designing for the big screen can be complicated—negative space, scale, density, and layout devices such as grids, modules, and columns can be factors in managing hierarchy and emphasis.
December 22, 2013
a list apart / business / design
Fortunately, it doesn’t have to be this way. Defining the challenges, solutions, and strategies for the project to come is some of the most valuable work you will do for your client. Not only is that time worth paying for, but the resulting deliverables will be critical to the success of the project, regardless of who they hire to complete the next phase.
December 22, 2013
design / jared spool / personas / user experience
There’s a third alternative. We started experimenting with reducing the effort required to create personas, scenarios, and principles. We went a simpler route and asked, what’s the least amount of time it takes to create usable decision-making references for designers?
December 22, 2013
brad frost / design / responsive design
I’m happy to introduce ish. 2.0. For the uninitiated, ish. is yet another viewport resizing tool. It’s called “ish.” because it focuses on general ranges (small-ish. medium-ish. large-ish.), rather than popular device widths. It’s our jobs as web designers to make sure our interfaces look and function across all screen sizes, and ish. is here to help.
December 22, 2013
Just what it says. Turn your smartphone into a digital microscope for around $10.
December 22, 2013
Recently, I found myself re-installing everything from Homebrew and began to notice that MySQL was consuming nearly half a gig of memory. Given that I don’t do too much with MySQL on a regular basis, I opted to override a handful of default configuration options to reduce the memory footprint.
December 22, 2013
a list apart / content strategy / karen mcgrane / responsive design
Seems like a lot of people are laboring under the mistaken impression that using responsive design means they can make a mobile website without dealing with their content problem.
December 22, 2013
html / html5 / web standards
The definitions of the
blockquoteandciteelements in the HTML specification have recently been updated. This article explains what the changes mean for developers.
December 22, 2013
an event apart / content strategy / kristina halvorson
Kristina Halvorson’s curated list of content strategy resources, as she presents it at An Event Apart.
December 20, 2013
So I’m not going to live trapped by fear of the “wrong” decision anymore. I’m not going to worry about ruining my life. My eyes, my ears, and my discernment may fail me at times, but if I’m living in honest pursuit of Truth, I believe I’ll find it.