May 2012
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Responsive Typography | Information Architects →
iA is back with a redesign and a really wonderful piece on the state of web typography.
This Advertising Life →
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Watchreuters:
During an interview with ABC News on Wednesday, U.S. President Barack Obama said he believed same-sex marriage should be legal.
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“Design is the manipulation of materials (wood, cloth). For a long time,...”
– LukeW | UX Immersion: The Mobile Frontier (via soxiam)
April 2012
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“Fifty-four per cent of all Android tablets are Amazon Kindle Fires, according to...”
– Amazon Kindle Fire is top Android tablet
Welp that certainly makes the “what Android tablets should I optimize most for” game easier.
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Five responsive web design pitfalls to avoid →
Hiding content
Bloating it up
Ignoring contextual conventions
Serving a one-size-fits-all experience
Relying on device dimensions
Brad Frost put together five great things to remember about responsive web that basically all boil down to this: Use common sense to deliver the best possible experience for the greatest number of users.
I would like to submit my own pitfall: trying to design...
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Bearded: Mocking Up Is Hard To Do →
beardedstudio:
Recently at Bearded we made a pretty drastic decision in terms of our web design process: we’re not creating mock-ups anymore.
That is to say: we’re not creating flat, Photoshop/Illustrator-produced mock-ups of websites, which we present to clients as JPGs or PNGs. And that’s because we’re…
This guys, this.
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“The first wave of the emotional web caught hold over the last year with services...”
– The ugly truth: why beautiful wins in 2012
Love this description of Instagram, and what the article goes on to say about Tumblr and About.me.
There’s a stark contrast when you look at services like Facebook and Twitter versus the “social networks” that are coming out in the past...
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WatchPresident Obama Slow Jams the News
I’m just going to leave this here, so I can remember how awesome the POTUS is later.
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Male Programmers Post Horrifyingly Awful Comments... →
programmersbeingdicks:
Backup screenshot here.
I feel really bad for any lady developers that work with these guys, or at companies that hire these guys. That must be a drag.
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In which Jakob Nielson some how determined that... →
The latest Alertbox post says that mobile should have less content, less features, and an entirely different UX than full fledged websites. This site should be entirely different than the desktop site or maybe even its own app. Tablets should follow a different set of guidelines and maybe be developed separately. It completely ignores the benefits of designing and building experiences that are...
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On Personal Branding →
Great tips from Brad Frost on cultivating a personal brand online. His steps are pretty straight forward:
Be sincere
Establish a style and tone
Be consistent
Have a hub
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“But in order to do this well, we need to be mindful about keeping and building...”
– Zuckerberg announces that Facebook has acquired Instagram.
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“Maybe you’re already frugal with your social currency, but how many times have...”
– Social Currency — Musings of Dustin Senos
I encounter this exact feeling all the time on Tumblr. There’s a weird dynamic that happens when the options for showing interest in a post are to share with your followers (reblog) or “loving” it. But what happens when you don’t...
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“A federal appeals court on Thursday reversed a lower court’s decision to throw...”
– Appeals Court Revives Viacom Suit Against YouTube - NYTimes.com
Not good news for any site that lives on user generated content.
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“As a result, the paper notes, many women find it difficult to “bear the burden...”
– A tough calculation - MIT News Office
This just in: Women shy away from careers in engineering because they see professional environments that don’t take them seriously. Not because they are worried about their careers and starting a family. And not because they don’t believe they are...
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“But with all the talk of people being excluded, maybe it’s time we look at...”
– Am really enjoying this piece from Ryan Funduk and the culture of exclusion that seems to be flourishing in the development world. I’ve gotta say that as a lady that tends to not drink to excess I can personally sympathize with the weirdness of attending events that emphasize the boozing to...
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March 2012
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http://novalight.net/ →
Great website, or greatest website?
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Confessions of a Fake Geek Girl
nissacam:
How lucky I am that Tara Brown told fake geek girls to go away this week. As she smartly points out:
Girls who genuinely like their hobby or interest and document what they are doing to help others, not garner attention, are true geeks. The ones who think about how to get attention and then work on a project in order to maximize their klout, are exhibitionists.
And here I am,...
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Kickstarter - Field Guides to Ensuring Voter... →
Even though every state has new voting systems since the 2000 Presidential election, we still hear from voters that they weren’t sure they voted as they intended. We hear from election administrators that recounts are difficult to manage because they have to interpret voter intent on thousands of ballots. Many of these issues could be resolved by applying simple design principles based on...
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“It took iOS just 15 days to get the same percentage of users on the latest OS...”
– iOS 5.1 Upgrade Stats - David Smith
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Hot girls dancing
zoya:
This week in tech:
Tuesday: Boston hackathon lists “Women: Need another beer? Let one of our friendly (female) event staff get that for you,” as an event perk. They lose four sponsors in the backlash and then non-apologize by saying, “Sorry you were offended.”
Thursday: Female programmer tells a “social peer-to-peer street cred builder for bad-ass developers” to take down a promotional...
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An Example of Photography on the Retina Display →
Last night a group of tweeps, including Steve Streza, collaborated with me to track down a limit in WebKit on the iPad when working with large JPEG files. After reverse engineering the limits and then later being pointed to the documentation about the limits, a birdie dropped a hint into my inbox telling me to try using a progressive JPEG file. Within just a few minutes, several people also...
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“Hi everyone. We never meant to offend any person and are very sorry as we...”
– Geeklist and a public apology
It’s unclear to me how they wouldn’t see how offensive the tweets yesterday were.
They openly attacked a women who was frustrated at sexist marketing. They accused her of deleting tweets to skew the conversation, which she didn’t do, and then deleted...
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“A user might first notice your product in a search result, browse around the...”
– Design Staff – Story-centered design: Hacking your brain to think like a user
Love this! Most of my work is application based, so flow and clarity across screens are paramount. I might have to try screencasting next time I’m delivering files to a team in another office.
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“Paragraph Styles and Character Styles
These behave like Paragraph Styles and...”
– Thank the Adobe gods, finally!
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Shanley Kane versus Geekli.st →
programmersbeingdicks:
A protracted Twitter argument about an embarrassingly sexist video that also serves as a convenient tour of some of the most common entitled-male-douchebag arguments you’ll find in tech (paraphrased):
Why the aggressive tone?
The women involved were consenting!
Geek women love us!
…as well as some more exotic and bizarre ones:
I bought you a drink once! (what?)
I...
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Is the iPad's Retina Display to Blame for the... →
I think the real question is “Does anyone care?”