“Argo is a public experiment in developing technical and editorial frameworks for thoughtfully managed topical content projects that don’t require a huge team or a big budget.”
February 8, 2012
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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“Instead of interviewing one person in this issue, we bring you seven, each focused on three simple questions about the principles that underlie their work.”
February 8, 2012
Fantastic strategy for designers to use when pricing their services.
February 5, 2012
Remote collaborative sketching, brainstorming and design studio techniques | Perception Is The Experience
February 4, 2012
business / design / design studio / user experience
I’ve been facilitating design studios with collocated teams for years. Many, including me, have covered the benefits of collaboratively sketching new ideas and concepts with a cross-functional team. Recently though, I was tasked with bringing this exercise to a distributed team. With the product and user experience team in New York and the development team in Vancouver, it proved to be an interesting challenge.
Mat Marquis shows the issues with the various techniques folks have come up with for responsive images, and also proposes a way forward that involves the creation of a new HTML element. It would be a fantastic thing, indeed.
February 1, 2012
design / html / html5 / responsive design
A List Apart: Articles: Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
The kind of things that the Upstatement folks learned while designing the responsive version of the Boston Globe. Looks at design software, strategies for breakpoints, and designing stuff in the browser. Fantastic snapshot of maybe the best way of doing this right now.
January 30, 2012
“There are many models for uprooting oppression in our communities. To offer one of many, the Hosanna! People’s Seminary approach is to discern particular areas of privilege and poverty within a community through a three part process: awareness of privilege and oppression in the community; accountability in the community to the oppressed party and to the continued education and development of the privileged party through ally training; and solidarity in relationship with the oppressed party or those allying with the oppressed party outside of the community.”
January 20, 2012
Content Strategy and Responsive Design « Brain Traffic Blog
January 20, 2012
content strategy / design / responsive design
> Don’t leave these decisions solely up to designers and developers. Chances are, we’re too concerned about things like browser compatibility and page-load time to give much thought to them. I happen to be a designer who believes that people visit websites for the content, not the design—but that doesn’t mean I want to be making decisions about content priority myself.
“Designing for the next step is a fundamental problem of interaction design. Almost every screen we design, be it in an app or marketing website, can be improved by really focusing on the steps and sequences of steps a user goes through. In our haste we often speed up the process too much, get steps out of order, fail to present an appropriate next step, or otherwise break the sequence. By re-assessing your app or site in light of these potential errors, you can discover the sequence and timing that your users need to successfully make it to the next step.”
January 20, 2012
Using media queries and the multiple columns module to split text into columns.
January 19, 2012