Stef. Sullivan Rewis on Building an Enterprise CSS Framework for Salesforce
September 23, 2015Some very interesting insights on what goes into building a huge CSS Framework for an Enterprise Solution like Salesforce.
At Salesforce UX, we are guided by four design principles. In order of importance, they are — clarity, efficiency, consistency, and beauty . These principles assisted us in prioritizing competing goals and helped us make tough calls.
I’d like to share some of the decisions we made while architecting the framework. Some of these choices may be unexpected. And there have been times when our ideas have morphed while building, as we discovered yet another platform or situation we needed to solve for.
Worth a read!
WP REST API – Core Merge Proposal
September 22, 2015In case you missed it: WP REST API is finally being officially proposed to merge into WordPress Core. The idea is to first integrate the infrastructure of the API in Version 4.4 and then merge the endpoints in Version 4.5 as a second step.
What’s also great is that the Team working on the API used GitHub during Development and the experience they gained could lead to a tighter integration of GitHub for the work on WordPress core too, which would be a great side effect.
Eric Meyer on Content/Ad Blocking
September 22, 2015Eric Meyer’s primer on Content Blocking is spot-on.
The ads that are at risk now are the ones delivered via bloated, badly managed, security-risk mechanisms. In other words: what’s at risk here is terrible web development.
Granted, the development of these ads was so terrible that it made the entire mobile web ecosystem appear far more broken that it actually is, and prompted multiple attempts to rein it in. Now we have content blockers, which are basically the nuclear option: if you aren’t going to even attempt to respect your customers, they’re happy to torch your entire infrastructure.
I used an Ad Blocker on desktop for a long time now, but i also have many sites set to “do not block”. These are basically all sites that respect me and treat me as a human being. And if you are a publisher, ad-provider or anyone else working in this industry and don’t respect your customers, i couldn’t care less if you’re going downhill from here and i would suggest you to go back to the drawing board as fast as you can.
Or, as Kontra eloquently phrased it on Twitter:
Then Users: Please DoNotTrack me AdTech+Publishers: Screw you Now AdTech+Publishers: Please DoNotAdBlock me Users: Screw you
— Kontra (@counternotions) September 20, 2015
Inferno – A Beautiful Slow Motion Bullet Time Video of Fire Breathers
September 22, 2015This looks pretty amazing.
Are you human?
September 8, 2015Dustin Curtis on Twitter
September 7, 2015Dustin Curtis pretty much nails it with his summary on what twitter’s product team should be focusing on and what problems he sees for the the twitter platform.
The fact that Twitter has fucked up its platform, more than anything else, is why I think Twitter’s next CEO needs to be more of a visionary, a person who can walk into the room and say, “What the fuck have you been doing for the past three years?” The last thing Twitter needs is to sit on its ass, twiddling its thumbs, while the product team continues to completely fail at addressing its most dire imminent existential threats.
Google revealed a new logo
September 2, 2015Google announced a new logo yesterday. I can only vaguely imagine how big of a task it is to redesign the logo for a company like Google. While there are many that “dislike” it, i think it works quite well. It’s definitely much more modern, but the tilted e at the end still preserve some of the “goofy-ness” from the old logo and the animations with those jumping dots do feel playful and match the overall style.
picu is available in Public Beta since yesterday
September 2, 2015Pssst… https://t.co/hLS6A2rfgj
— picu (@picu_io) September 1, 2015
Since yesterday you can download picu from WordPress.org as a Public Beta. We hope to gather as much feedback as we can from an even broader range of photographers.
Download it, test it, rip it apart, review it, send us your inputs. But please don’t forget that picu is in “public beta” and just learned to walk, so please be kind to it :)
Peter Bellerby – The Globemaker
August 25, 2015This is fantastic! I always liked globes, those really old, large ones mounted in a wooden cntainer – and i love hand-crafted products. And this video shows the process of the (probably) only producer of hand-crafted globes. Really fascinating!