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Leo Laporte interviews JZ
IN EPISODE 63 of Triangulation, Leo Laporte, a gracious and knowledgeable podcaster/broadcaster straight outta Petaluma, CA, interviews Your Humble Narrator about web standards history, responsive web...
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Will the last digital canvas please turn out the lights?
DESIGNERS. WE LOVE CANVASES. It’s what we know. Even the cave wall had predictable, fixed dimensions. On the web, in the past few years, we’ve finally had to acknowledge that the canvas is not fixed,...
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Big Web Show № 112: Responsive Images Get Real with Mat Marquis
THE GOAL of a “responsive images” solution is to deliver images optimized for the end user’s context, rather than serving the largest potentially necessary image to everyone. Unfortunately, this...
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Evolving Responsive Web Design
In What We Mean When We Say “responsive” and Defining Responsiveness, Lyza Danger Gardner and Jason Grigsby cut to the heart of a disagreement I had three years ago with Ethan Marcotte, the creator of...
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Responsive Web Design’s Debut (with video)
IT WAS FIVE years ago today, Ethan Marcotte taught the web to play…nicely with all kinds of devices in all kinds of contexts. And he did it live on stage at An Event Apart Seattle 2010. Watch the...
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A List Apart № 423: container queries, responsive content
WHETHER the topic is responsive CSS or content that responds to the right user at the right time, Issue № 423 of A List Apart is all about finding the path forward: Container Queries: Once More Unto...
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The Nation, America’s oldest weekly news magazine, launches responsive,...
ON ITS 150th anniversary, The Nation (“a magazine of ideas and values”) relaunches its website, created in partnership with Blue State Digital and Diaspark. As one would expect of an editorially...
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Publishing v. Performance—or, The Soul of the Web
MY SOUL is in twain. Two principles on which clued-in web folk heartily agree are coming more and more often into conflict—a conflict most recently thrust into relief by discussions around the...
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On Web Performance
GET READY for Lara Hogan, author of Designing For Performance, as she shares pretty much about everything you’ll need to know to design optimally performant front-end web experiences. It’s one of...
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You’re welcome: cutting the mustard then and now.
EVERY TIME I hear a young web developer cite the BBC’s forward-thinking practice of “cutting the mustard,” by which they mean testing a receiving web device for certain capabilities before serving...
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“Adaptive UI encourages us to be strategic.”
[M]ost things simply respond automatically, like content width responding to text size changes; some things need to be modified like the Profile header, which would take up half the screen on a large...
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Responsive times two: essential new books from Ethan Marcotte & Karen McGrane
IT WAS the early 2000s. The smoke from 9/11 was still poisoning my New York. Karen McGrane was a brilliant young consultant who had built the IA practice at Razorfish while still in her early 20s, and...
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The Year in Design
Mobile is today’s first screen. So design responsively, focusing on content and structure first. Websites and apps alike should remove distractions and let people interact as directly as possible with...
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Jason Grigsby on Design Beyond Touch
12 LESSONS from An Event Apart San Francisco – № 4: Jason Grigsby was the 10th speaker at An Event Apart San Francisco last week. Jason’s session, Adapting to Input, presented designers and developers...
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The Web We Lost: Luke Dorny Redesign
Like 90s hip-hop, The Web We Lost retains a near-mystical hold on the hearts and minds of those who were lucky enough to be part of it. Luke Dorny’s recent, lovingly hand-carved redesign of his...
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AT AN EVENT APART Boston, “Scott Jehl discussed ways we can improve web performance by qualifying capabilities and being smart about how assets are loaded in browsers [and] shared a … new tools he...
View ArticleResponsive and Mobile Now
A FEW GOOD LINKS from a day-long workshop by Luke Wroblewski: New! Off Canvas Multi-Device Layouts by Luke Wroblewski and Jason Weaver The EMs have it: Proportional Media Queries FTW! by Lyza Gardner...
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Responsive Typography
“NOT EVERYTHING always works in your favor when you design for the screen. Interaction design is engineering: it’s not about finding the perfect design, it’s finding the best compromise.” Responsive...
View ArticleSaving Your Web Workflows with Prototyping
Our static tools and linear workflows aren’t the right fit for the flexible, diverse reality of today’s Web. Making prototyping a central element of your workflows will radically change how you...
View ArticleHe Built This City: The Return of Glenn Davis
You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. As the first person to realize, way back in 1994, that the emerging web could be a playground, he...
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