Loved this. A real example of the current state of SVG, along with how great a solution it can be within a responsive design workflow.
February 23, 2012
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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Nerve Damage, Comprehension, and Content | Contents Magazine
February 17, 2012
content strategy / user experience
> The brief neuroanatomy lesson supports my first principle. While the “whats” (detail oriented content, messages, etc.) are important to a user, content they can connect with on an emotional/behavioral level (“hows” and “whys”) is what drives deeper comprehension because it connects to the area of the brain that defines our behavioral context. When we have content that addresses these behavioral factors, we stimulate the parts of the brain that create memory and ultimately make us able to truly comprehend something. When we have that, we have the potential to influence things like favorability, consideration, satisfaction, and even loyalty. What that should tell you, my fellow lovers of content, is that the most effective strategy leads to work that speaks bi-directionally—to both the rational and emotional parts of our brain. If we only believe that retention happens when we present our case for a product, service, organization, etc., we’re assuming that the spatial/language-based portion of our brain governs our decision making process. Fact is, it just doesn’t have the final say.
Luke Wroblewski’s notes from Karen McGrane’s “Adaptive Web Content” talk at Atlanta’s An Event Apart. I’ve been watching Karen’s thoughts on this over the last few months, and am seeing infinite places where what she’s talking about is needed.
February 15, 2012
Luke Wroblewski’s notes from Ethan Marcotte’s “Rolling Up Our Responsive Sleeves” talk at An Event Apart Atlanta.
February 15, 2012
Fantastic examples of how sketching can actually be used, here in the context of Adaptive Path – personal project sketches, group project sketches, and so on.
February 15, 2012
adaptive path / design / sketching / user experience
What we talk about when we talk about sketching. – Adaptive Path
“Let’s stop siloing content, shall we? We did it for a while when we were designing a largely brochureware, templated web. Now, we’re trying to move that silo from one end of the process to the other. Let’s focus on structure to begin with, and think about content all the time. There is a symbiotic relationship between content and design. One cannot thrive without the other.”
February 15, 2012
“Great mobile designs do more than shoehorn themselves into tiny screens: they make way for fingers and thumbs, accommodating the wayward taps of our clumsy digits. The physicality of handheld interfaces take designers beyond the conventions of visual and information design‚ and into the territory of industrial design. With touchscreens there are real ergonomics at stake. It’s not just how your pixels look, but how they feel in the hand.”
February 14, 2012
android / design / ios / josh-clark / mobile
“But I am more convinced than ever that until we can own our power, we can’t really give it away. And a lot of people are in desperate need of power because they’ve never had any for all kinds of reasons that are far beyond their control. Gender, socioeconomics, geography, educational opportunity, skin color, and a host of other factors keep people disempowered. One of my dreams for us as Christ-followers is that we would learn what it means to diffuse power – to give away leadership, value and voice as much as possible, and as deeply and creatively as possible.”
February 8, 2012
‘Best practices’ is a loaded term when it comes to creating mobile web experiences. It’s a unique context with it’s own challenges and opportunities. While there’s no silver bullet, this site will help you ask the right questions and help solve problems so you can start creating future-friendly web experiences.
February 8, 2012
design / development / mobile
Mobile Web Best Practices | Helping People Make Mobile Web Experiences
“getUserMedia is an API that gives a web page access to a user’s camera and microphone via JavaScript. It’s supported in Opera Labs (latest Android build, latest desktop builds) and WebKit in Chrome Canary builds. Like many other APIs, it’s not part of the ‘real’ HTML5 spec. It started life as the HTML5 element, then got moved into the W3C as part of the webRTC specifications. But let’s not taxonomise when we could be having fun.”
February 8, 2012
html5 / javascript / web standards
It’s Curtains for Marital Strife Thanks to getUserMedia | HTML5 Doctor