Archive for the ‘Design’ Category

Demonstrating Responsive Design. Responsive design has, I think, moved beyond some sort of niche novelty buzzword. I think it’s had a great effect on Web design in general and given all of us even more to think about regarding the future and what that means for our profession. Responsive design means more work though, there’s [...]

Kickstrap: Enhancements for Bootstrap. The Bootstrap innovations keep rolling in. This time in the form of easy extension. There are a few neat things to check out here, especially the Themes. It shows the extensive effect a few style changes can have on a design. There are a number of Themes to check out, each [...]

Hands-on: GNOME 3.4 arrives, introducing significant design changes. I’m still a Linux geek. Every few months I’ll get this overwhelming feeling that I’d love to just drop my current workflow entirely and get myself up and running with Linux. I can’t explain why, it’s just really attractive to me periodically. With my Linux fascination I’m [...]

LukeW | Multi-Device Layout Patterns. I’m always thrilled to see a post from Luke Wroblewski. This time he’s establishing some convention surrounding responsive design patterns. Responsive websites feel like the Internet maturing. If we think back to it, everything was sparked by the iPhone. I’m not trying to fanboy anything but if we’re realistic that [...]

About those vector icons · Pushing Pixels. With much of the industry focus being on resolution lately, from both responsive design all the way up to Retina displays, it brings back many questions that ask about simply using vector assets everywhere. Is it possible? Is it effective? This article goes into great detail explaining the [...]

Introducing the New Developer Experience – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs. I haven’t used a Microsoft product (aside from browser testing or helping with a family/friend computer issue) in a number of years, but I’m always interested in seeing what they’ve got cooking. It’s a monstrous company with many resources, [...]

Morris.js. I love nice looking charts. These are nice looking charts. Powered by jQuery and Raphaël, this charting library is reminiscent of what you’d see in Google Analytics and many other metrics system we all stare at quite a bit of the time.

Kevin Fox – Google+ – I was writing a blog post about three recent changes to…. There’s a lot to read in this post, but it outlines a number of questions I’ve had as of late. Google’s never been looked at as a company that really optimized the design experience. That is until as of [...]

HTML5 Clear. There’s no question that Clear‘s UI is innovative. In fact I think it’s genius. It only took about four minutes for someone to replicate it in HTML5 and it’s surely worth a look on your applicable touch-capable device.

Design for Speed—Some Random Dude. I’ll be the first one to admit that I haven’t been able to really sweat the details when it came to the network side of the front end. It’s all too easy on our fat broadband connections to use that extra jQuery plugin (and jQuery itself) or nudge up the [...]