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Sugru Silicone Putty

Thu, 03 Nov 2011 16:07:48 +0000

This is wonderful stuff. THink Blu-Tack, but imagine any shape you can make can set in 24 hours and remain stuck indefinitely. Brilliant for small repairs. Especially useful for attaching lights, cameras and other odd shaped tools to helmets and bikes.

Twitter Bootstrap

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:13:37 +0000

Twitter’s library and layout guidelines for a quick-to-prototype app – perfect for experimental design.

Responsive Web Design

Rich — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:34:04 +0000

Some background thoughts on “Responsive Web Design” (i.e. one of the things I espouse during web design lectures). If the web page contains the information and the CSS describes they layout, then it’s hard to do anything but a design that is responsive.

Beginner’s Responsive Web Design

Rich — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 14:29:19 +0000

Some notes on HTML page structures that dynamically reflow on devices with differently sized screens.

CSS Lint

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:01:34 +0000

Just what the doctor ordered. CSS Lint to complement JSLint

Early REST

Tue, 31 May 2011 12:53:27 +0000

A very early example of stateless servers, before the protocols matured and RESTful services were named.

Canvas HeatMap

Fri, 27 May 2011 11:03:18 +0000

An HTML5 Canvas Heatmap Library. I was talking about heatmaps with a project student and had the idea that a canvas based heatmap would be a great tool. As with anything on the web these days, someone’s created a pretty cool implementation already.

susan jean robertson » Assumptions

Tue, 17 May 2011 09:42:48 +0000

More thoughts on designing for a web of diverse screen sizes.

The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design

Tue, 17 May 2011 09:40:56 +0000

Creating a web page structure that can handle diverse screen sizes and resolutions is a necessity, not a quirk. Here’s some discussion about it.

Maqetta

Wed, 04 May 2011 14:05:45 +0000

Maqetta, a components based IDE for lazy (good lazy) javascript & html5 application creation.

CSS Flexbox

Sat, 09 Apr 2011 18:40:07 +0000

XUL flex box comes to CSS. The potential to simplify multi-column and dynamically sized tabular content, whilst not polluting the markup. Much rejoicing may follow.

Flyer beware; real cost of flying Ryanair

Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:06:31 +0000

Alan Colville reviews the Ryan Air marketing and website practices and highlights some of the ways good usability practice can be ignored if you want to confuse your customers.

Social Interaction Design and Games

Mon, 04 Apr 2011 07:24:35 +0000

If you’re thinking of designing a game, Adrian Chan has some good points to contemplate.

Mobile vs Desktop Websites

Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:11:19 +0000

Ten (emerging) common differences between mobile and desktop websites. I’d not agree with all of them 100%, but some good thinking material.

User Experience Design (Not)

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:18:02 +0000

Designing for the user expience (given that the actual experience of the user cannot be designed, if you blieve the article)

Web Architecture: Describing and Exchanging Data

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 02:09:41 +0000

Does exactly what it says on the tin. Introduces the global scale problem and offers insight into some solutions.

Videos of screen readers using ARIA

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 22:50:26 +0000

Recordings of screen readers using widgets with and without WAI-ARIA can be a good educational resource for why ARIA is important to accessibility.

Clients From Hell

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:48:11 +0000

It’s funny because it’s true.

HTML5 Reset

Rich — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:39:37 +0000

Another boilerplate HTML5 template. A useful starting point for some pages no doubt.

The CSS website Awards

Rich — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:48:53 +0000

Some nicely designed sites. Some are usable, some not, but for looks these are worth a gander.