SPLIT
January 4, 2018SPLIT by cento lodigiani. I like this animation style.
Sara Soueidan – SVG Lessons I Learned The Hard Way
February 25, 2016The last days i spent a lot of time reading about and getting my head around SVG, which can be kind of complex and sometimes confusing if you’re just starting out. This talk by Sara Soueidan at Beyond Tellerrand helped me a lot to understand some of the basic concepts behind SVG.
Typography Supply
January 11, 2016An inventory of typographic tools.
Some nice tools for Typography on the Web.
Website Obesity
January 4, 2016There is only one honest measure of web performance: the time from when you click a link to when you’ve finished skipping the last ad.
Everything else is bullshit.
Amen!
This is probably one of the best and most entertaining articles about web performance i’ve read lately. Go read it, and don’t forget to make performance a priority in 2016!
CSS Pro Tips
October 11, 2015Matt Smith shared some CSS Pro Tips on GitHub. I especially like the following snippet, but there’s a whole lot of other interesting things.
ul > li:not(:last-child)::after {
content: ",";
}
U.S. Web Design Standards
October 1, 2015
The U.S. Government released a complete set of Standards to achieve consistency across federal government websites.
Built and maintained by U.S. Digital Service and 18F designers and developers, this resource follows industry-standard web accessibility guidelines and reuses the best practices of existing style libraries and modern web design. It provides a guide for creating beautiful and easy-to-use online experiences for the American people.
It’s really great to see more and more organizations – and especially governments – create and even release Style Guides for Web Design.
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!
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
Dustin 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.