Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
April 3, 2013
design / performance / responsive design
One of the big lessons is that we spend a lot of time discussing what the frontend solutions for responsive images should be—the new picture element or srcset or a magical new image format—and little time discussing how backend systems and human processes might need to change.
March 22, 2013
design / jared spool / user experience
Fascinating thoughts and data on implementing redesigns. It’s still difficult or impossible for many of us to avoid flipping the switch and ruining experiences for loyal users due to business models, but this kind of data helps.
March 20, 2013
a list apart / design / performance / typography
Symbol fonts are the next step forward in website design and optimization, and you need to understand them to work on the web today. With practice, you can create your own custom symbol fonts with logos, icons, and branding to embed into your websites. Not only will these little extras impress your audience, but they will simultaneously optimize your website’s performance. It’s time we all start using symbol fonts – and help improve the tools, standards, and techniques to make them.
March 20, 2013
If you’re using placeholder as intended, then the behaviour in the other browsers is probably more desirable. If you want to get Safari and Chrome to mimic the behaviour of the other browsers, here’s a handy bit of CSS…
March 19, 2013
design / mozilla / user experience
If I told you that a company is shipping a product to hundreds of millions of users right now, and included in the product are several prominent buttons that will break the product completely if you click them, and possibly lock you out from the Internet — can you guess which product it is?
March 19, 2013
design / design thinking / don norman
Don Norman is always a fantastic one to read, but this one is his embrace, and his explanation of what he’s embracing, of the label “design thinking.” I love the way he recognizes that all innovators practice it, but that it is the hallmark of modern design. There’s no limit to who can use it, and that’s important.
March 18, 2013
24-7prayer / coffeeshop / ministry / prayer
A fantastic-sounding cafe that some 24-7 Prayer folks have opened in Burgos, Spain.
March 11, 2013
Greg Boyd gives a preview of his upcoming book, Crucifixion of the Warrior God and his sense of how to deal with inspired but horrific material in the Bible while holding that the nonviolent Jesus is the self-revelation of God. I’m so excited by this book.
March 10, 2013
Who in the audience has ever had to explain layout and design decisions? And who has struggled to do that? Jon has. That’s why he wants to talk about the differences between designing for impact—to grab attention—and immersion—to get out of the way and allow for absorbing involvement.
March 5, 2013
browser issues / design / ie / microsoft
In Windows 7, websites could be ‘pinned’ to the taskbar (which used a 32px resource in the favicon.ico file) but now they can also be pinned to to the start screen, having a special Windows 8 ‘tile’ of their own.
If you don’t provide your own tile image, the OS will simply use a light grey version of the IE logo.