Explanation of a fantastic CSS technique Apple used on the iPhone 4S site.
December 12, 2011
Items of Interest
Collecting amazing and interesting things on the web.
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I have found that the only way to insure a strong “outward” focus is to start groups with mission as their initial purpose for gathering. The upward and inward elements are far easier to nurture in an outward focused group than to get an inward or upward focused group to move outward.
December 12, 2011
“Alex Morris flips open his well-thumbed journalist’s notebook to approach web projects through four powerful lines of enquiry that can set your product’s strategy on the right track.”
December 10, 2011
Owen Gregory reflects on what music composition theory has to offer to visual design with harmony and proportion, creating grids that align with devices and that allow content pieces to relate to each other. Fascinating idea.
December 8, 2011
design / grids / layout / typography
This is a method for building a front-end style guide, and also for building a design style guide. It allows us to create interface patterns, code them, and then reuse that code to keep things consistent.
December 8, 2011
It’s a fantastic thing to have a methodology to explain our processes. We already do stuff in certain ways, but often don’t know why. Knowing why can help us find better ways, and also understand the reasons for the good ways.
December 7, 2011
The results from Nielsen’s testing of the Kindle Fire are disappointing. I wasn’t personally considering buying one instead of an iPad or regular Kindle, but my hope was that Amazon had finally produced a worthy competitor to the iPad. Maybe it’ll become one, but clearly it isn’t yet.
December 6, 2011
design / kindle / usability / user experience
Luke Wroblewski’s notes on Randy Hunt’s Design for Continuous Deployment presentation at the Warm Gun conference, in which he examined how Etsy allows designers and developers to write code together. Fantastic approach, the kind I’d love to be part of.
December 5, 2011
Luke Wroblewski’s notes on Aza Raskin’s Designing for Disruption: Changing User Behavior with Design presentation at the Warm Gun conference, in which he made the case for designing positive health changes in people by using feedback loops.
December 5, 2011
Using a CSS pre-processor (presumably whether it is Sass or LESS or whatever) to write mobile-first CSS, as we should of course, and then easily provide a desktop experience for older versions of IE that don’t support media queries.
December 2, 2011