Just what it says. A great demo from Brad Frost.
April 25, 2012
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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Karen McGrane has been talking about NPR’s “Create Once Publish Everywhere” method of using their API to publish all their content, keeping it flexible and adaptive for any kind of website, device app, etc. This is her collection of bookmarks about NPR’s process. It is wonderful.
April 19, 2012
api / content management / content strategy / npr / programming
Fantastic way to use LESS to make CSS sprites easier and faster to create.
April 19, 2012
Adapting design workflows to make them responsive. The 1 – 10 here is brilliant.
April 19, 2012
A discussion of web design on TVs. It’s fascinating to me that we’re moving to this – really promising – level from the old WebTV of the 90s, without much of anything in the middle.
April 19, 2012
“In short, Jesus isn’t asking us to love the world all by ourselves. That’s not sustainable. Jesus is asking us to participate in communities of love, what he calls the Kingdom of God. Within these communities I will undergo diminishment on your behalf but I am soon filled and rehabilitated by others. I sacrifice to find abundance waiting for me on the other side. That is the vision of church.”
April 19, 2012
church / richard-beck / theology
Experimental Theology: The Slavery of Death: Part 30, The Loving Economy of the Kingdom of God
“This is why the crucifixion is considered to be an act of love. The cross represents the self-donation of God, God being given to us, God suffering on our behalf. And this act of self-giving signals that the rift between God and humanity has been eradicated. In the gift of Jesus God reaches out and grabs hold of us.”
April 19, 2012
“If you’ve ever participated in an ontological debate about “the fold”, you know that how far users are willing to scroll down a page (and whether they’re willing to scroll at all) is an important concern for both designers and business stakeholders. So how can we measure it? One option is to sign up for a service like Chartbeat that offers scroll depth as a reporting metric. Another option is to use a little jQuery to record the data in Google Analytics. Here’s a plugin for that.”
April 18, 2012
design / google analytics / javascript
Tracking Scroll Depth with jQuery and Google Analytics – Ravelrumba by Rob Flaherty
Fascinating reading of the Numbers 20 story of Moses striking the rock with his staff, and why that matters and why he had the staff in the first place.
April 11, 2012
“One of the biggest problems facing information architects (IAs) today is crafting the perfect content hierarchy, one that quickly gets users to the information they’re looking for. To do this, information architects need to first query their users. How do the people browsing and/or searching this site think about its content? In search of an answer, IAs often employ card sorts; however, they inevitably produce a great deal of data. Knowing how to correctly structure and analyze that data can help architects attain the perfection they seek.”
April 11, 2012
card-sorting / design / information architecture / usability-testing / user experience