Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
October 25, 2012
design / jared spool / user experience / user research
How to find the missing expectations with which users approach our designs. This shows how usability testing isn’t the right method for finding out this stuff, but we’ve got to go into a more sophisticated approach, and actually observe people doing what they actually do.
October 22, 2012
css / design / grids / responsive-desig
Responsive design gives us the opportunity to rethink our whole approach to designing for the web. We can stop designing ‘websites’ and ‘mobile sites.’ We can create flexible content delivery systems: sets of rules that define how our content will be presented as its context shifts.
October 21, 2012
design / user experience / user research / whitney-hess
Understanding design as problem solving leads to a need to figure out what the problem actually is, and that leads to beautiful things – actual conversations with people, wise questions and listening, and more.
October 10, 2012
culture / mark-van-steenwyk / politics / theology
“Our children are being indoctrinated whether we like it or not. At least we can be intentional about it. Of course, I try not to be overbearing about it. I can’t force my kid to be what I want him to be; I can only show him the world and hope he navigates it well.”
October 10, 2012
brad frost / design / responsive design
A fairly comprehensive list of responsive design resources – covering strategy, process, tools, layout/typography/images, and so on. Fantastic.
October 8, 2012
greg boyd / hebrew-bible / jesus / pacifism / theology
In this post I’d like to share the story of how I came upon the thesis I’m defending in the book I’ve been working on for the last four years entitled The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: A Cruciform Theological Interpretation of the Old Testament’s Violent Divine Portraits. It’s a much longer post than usual, but if you’re one of the many Christians today who are deeply troubled by the violent portraits of God in the Old Testament, I believe you’ll find it worth the time spent.
October 2, 2012
A font that renders plain text as beautiful, vector icons.
September 27, 2012
a list apart / design / responsive design
The current best solutions we have for designs that support high-resolution displays without hurting low-bandwidth connections.
September 18, 2012
design / mobile / socia-media
What social media buttons do to mobile devices, plus an alternative for sites that still want them.
September 18, 2012
design / javascript / jquery / typography
Responsive Measure is a simple script that allows you to pass in a selector (ideally the container where your primary content will go) which generates the ideal font size needed to produce the ideal measure for your text.