Y ou've had your fun: now we want the stuff back. With these words the British government embarked on the most bizarre act of state censorship of the internet age. In a Guardian basement, officials fr
Aug 20, 2013 Semantic CSS With Intelligent Selectors About The Author Heydon Pickering ( @heydonworks ) has worked with The Paciello Group, The BBC, Smashing Magazine, and Bulb Energy as a designer, e
Aug 2, 2013 The “Other” Interface: Atomic Design With Sass About The Author Robin is a writer and designer. You can follow him on twitter . More aboutRobin ↬ Email Newsletter Weekly tips on front-end
In his presentation at Breaking Development in San Diego CA Ilya Grigorik explained why mobile Web experiences can be slow and how to optimize your sites for quick rendering. Here's my notes from his
I’ve been doing some workshopping and consultancy at a few different companies recently, mostly about responsive design. I can’t help but feel a little bad about it because, while I think they’re expe
by on July 8, 2013 Frontend Development 12 Comments The modern web is always changing, and this article is more than two years old. By Aurelio De Rosa UPDATE: With certain constraints, a better approach than the one discussed in this article exists. Read the section at the end of this post for…
5 min read · Jul 12, 2013 -- In the summer of 1982, thirty-six-year-old Austrian toothpaste salesman Dietrich Mateschitz boarded a plane for a routine business trip to Thailand. There was nothing abou
It is a popular trend at the moment to use almost full-page high-resolution super-large images on your portfolio, which does work effectively as it focuses the user on your best work and clearly highl
This article is adapted from Brett Martin’s Difficult Men: Behind the Scenes of a Creative Revolution: From The Sopranos to Mad Men to Breaking Bad. By the time the fourth season of The Wire rolled ar
Jun 26, 2013 When Editors Design – Controlling Presentation In Structured Content About The Author Jeff Eaton is a Digital Strategist at Lullabot , where he designs and implements large-scale web plat
One of my first managers — we shall call him Bob — had a saying that used to drive me nuts. To most of my complaints about workplace dysfunctions in our manager-employee one-on-ones, Bob would respond
In his The Map Is Not The Territory presentation at An Event Apart Boston MA 2013, Ethan Marcotte shared his thoughts about the changing definition of the Web and his philosophy for making broadly acc
Lately, we’ve been running into a recurring dilemma when building responsive designs. We want to build responsive layouts comprised of many modular, independent HTML components that fluidly fill any layout container we drop them into, but CSS3 media queries don’t currently offer a way to make…
Recently I got together with some local developers to discuss client side MVC frameworks. We ended up discussing many of the differences between AngularJS and Ember . Discourse is an Ember application
Subscribe to our weekly newsletter Big Think Weekly Newsletter Technology companies can create enormous value, but what about jobs? 19 June, 2013 Technology companies can create enormous value, but what about jobs? Consider this analysis from Erik Brynjolfsson, a professor at MIT's Sloan School of…
Home All articles May 8, 2013 Paul Lewis Twitter On this page Introduction Painting the elements for a site or application can get really expensive, and it can have a negative knock-on effect on our r
Lots has happened in the world of Responsive Images since I wrote Mo’ Pixels, Mo’ Problems . And by lots, I mean nothing at all . It’s been over a year since The Great WHATWG Responsive Image Debacle
It’s been over a year since I’ve blogged, but today’s introduction of iOS 7 was enough to get me to do it. This isn;t a well-thought out piece, it’s just a bunch of observations and thoughts from the product’s announcement to my installation of the developer beta, and through about 30 minutes of…
Continuous Testing: Why It’s Important To Increase Build Iterations Luke Clum June 3rd, 2013 So you had your client meeting. You spent hours on an RFP. You’ve laid out a site map that’s clear and logical. You’ve even managed to integrate the ancient sales platform your client insists on using with a…
I’ve talked about interviews from one perspective or another on several occasions, you might even say it is a pet subject of mine. It’s fascinating because most people are no good at interviews and wh
Looking at the development history of games and comparing it to the basic psychological needs of humanity, some interesting corrolaries crop up. Let’s take a quick look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
I came to the JavaScript party much later than some of my colleagues but much earlier than most. I was told the best resource was Douglas Crockford’s book ‘JavaScript: The Good Parts‘ and was not disappointed. The book is thin and contains a minimal set of information needed to get you in a good…
Update 2013/05/29: I have updated the article to reflect recent changes in the source map specification where the //@ syntax for linking a source map to a script has been deprecated in favor of //# du
Here it is — my complete iOS, Android and Mac app design workflow, starting from the first time you open Photoshop, to the app release and beyond. Now seemed like a good time to document how I’ve been
The following is a guest post by Alessandro Vendruscolo . Media queries are relevant to both CSS and JS. The need and desire to manage those in one place is real. There have been some clever ways to d
All too often, people do good things for the wrong reasons, and find it’s not sustainable. Compare the differences between these statements: I want to develop software. I want to be a software develop
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