Tag: web design
All the articles with the tag "web design".
Video post: Nod Coding Bootcamp Case Study
Waaark explains how it transformed Nod Coding Bootcamp’s website through branding, interaction, and animation.
Link post: What It Takes to Build a Website
Drew McLellan asks experienced web professionals which skills and principles should form the foundation of building websites.
Photo post: Implementing Progressive Reduction
LayerVault discusses reader feedback on implementing Progressive Reduction, a UI design pattern, following its initial article on the topic.
Link post: Sass Style Guide
With more people than ever writing Sass, it bears some consideration how we format it. CSS style guides are common, so perhaps we can extend those to cover choices unique to Sass.
Link post: Sensible jumps in responsive image file sizes
Last year, I wrote about the challenges of picking responsive-image breakpoints and how I found it a nearly unsolvable problem. It has vexed me since.
Link post: An Event Apart: What Clients Don’t Know
In his presentation at An Event Apart in Seattle WA 2013, Mike Monteiro outlined the problems with designer/client relationships and what designers should do to fix them.
Link post: F**K CAPTCHA
Harry Brignull argues that CAPTCHA pushes a site’s spam problem onto its users and presents conversion data showing the cost of that friction.
Link post: Starting Your Project on the Right Foot (and Keeping It There)
Bethany Heck shares methods for setting expectations, protecting momentum, and maintaining productive relationships throughout a creative project.
Photo post: Being a Web Developer
Being a web developer… Is as awesome as Chewbacca riding a squirrel, fighting Nazis with a cross bow.
Link post: Mixture: A New Tool for Front-End Developers
Mike Kus introduces Mixture, a local front-end development environment with live updates, dynamic templates, preprocessors, shared projects, and no server setup.
Quote post: Has Adaptive Design Failed?
Has adaptive design failed? Of course it bloody hasn’t.
Link post: Responsive viewport units
An early exploration of vw, vh, and vmin units for sizing typography and layouts relative to the browser viewport.
Link post: SVG Stacks
Simurai demonstrates an SVG sprite technique that uses fragment identifiers and CSS to expose several icons from one file.
Link post: Musings on Preprocessing
I’ve been using Sass for pretty much everything I do recently. Here are some musings on the journey, from hold-ups and trip-ups to turn-offs.
Link post: The Open Web Needs You Now
Daniel Glazman argues that web authors should test emerging standards, report implementation problems, and participate before browser behavior becomes entrenched.