Weekend Reading — WEEK_OF_YEAR

Design Objective 10 things that graphic designers get stuck with, and 10 books that can help Nice reading list. Tools of the Trade livedown Live Markdown previews for your favourite editor. Includes plugins for Vim, Emacs and Sublime. CSS: The Good Parts A simple style guide that makes a lot

Weekend Reading — Baby Jesus and miracle flights

Design Objective Flick Scrolling gesture Hopefully coming soon to the iPhone. Why movies look weird at 48fps, and games are better at 60fps, and the uncanny valley… From which you'll learn how frames per second relates to our eyes constantly jiggling in our heads. Jiggle, jiggle. Tools of

Weekend Reading — SELECT * FROM customers WHERE

@withoutgorms nailed it Design Objective What colour is it? Tells the time in RGB. WTF Mobile Web Shaming sites with poor or non-existent mobile support. Elastic SVG Elements Cool SVG elements that wobble, squish and bounce when you interact with them. Love that this is possible with HTML. Today. Just

Weekend Reading — Comic Papyrus

trick mat Spacetime curvature placemats: Design Objective There is No Fold "The fold" on the Web, not a real thing. In fact, if the web has taught users anything, it's to "scroll before page fully loads". Everybody Scrolls Need more data points? "Almost

Weekend Reading — Slow programming

Design Objective What I Learned From Building An App For Low-Income Americans A perspective you don't see much of in the tech circles: Living on a low income translates into other forms of scarcity: of power, information, respect, opportunity, time, health, security, and even of sleep. Our job

Weekend Reading — Y truncated

Design Objective Presented without comment: Tools of the Trade Regulex Visualizing JavaScript Regular Expressions. Flakes An open source design & front-end framework or internal business applications. By Kumail Hunaid of Grid Forms fame. VMUX Secure text, audio and video chats from your browser. Uses WebRTC, so you'll need

Weekend Reading — #FeministHackerBarbie

#FeministHackerBarbie is fantastic Design Objective Responsive Design A/B Testing Leads to a 130% Increase in Clicks Litmus shares some data that backs what we ancedotally know: people prefer opening responsive emails on their mobile devices. The Myth Of AI Regarding machine learning and recommendation engines (Amazon, Facebook, NetFlix etc)

Weekend Reading — Horror Vacui

This is a million dollar idea Design Objective Horror Vacui Ever wondered why software UI degrades over time? Humans have the same tendency when it comes to visual design. No empty space! Your screen has a few white pixels? What feature can we put there! Quick! Find something we can

Weekend Reading — Fitzpatrick Modifiers

Design Objective Form Usability: The Pitfalls of Inline Accordion and Tab Designs Multi-part forms have an inherit problem: it's never quite clear what changes are saved when you hit the save button. An exploration of how accordions and tabs confuse people and how to better design complex forms.