DACS
The Week
dConstruct 2011
Nuts.com
Waldo Pancake
Fontdeck
Universal Playback
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dConstruct 2010
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University of Wales
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nGenera Corporation
Ning
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The Pastry Box Project: Works Well with Others
A brief thought about collaboration.
Web Design & Development
Articles
Review: Bohemian Coding Sketch 2
In which I explain why I’m not sad that Adobe killed Fireworks having already moved onto a much better tool for interface design.
Responsive Images: What We Thought We Needed
I engage with the two main approaches to the matter of responsive images and find them wanting. Could “Bah, humbug!” be a reasonable response to markup excess?
The Web Aesthetic
Responsive web design is an emerging best practice, but innovation is focused on technical implementations while the visual aesthetic remains ignored. Put another way, we’re embracing ‘responsive’ but neglecting the second part: ‘design’. Now is the time to seek out an aesthetic that is truer to the medium.
Build a Responsive Website in a Week
A five-part tutorial that gives an introduction to Responsive Web Design. I begin with an illustration of how one might design a website with infinite layouts. I go on describe each component of responsive design: fluid grids, flexible images and media queries, before finishing with testing, optimisation and performance.
Collaborative Development for a Responsively Designed Web
I unfurl my seraph wings to proclaim peace on Earth and the importance of goodwill between designers and developers. It’s not the office Secret Santa that unites them, but constant contact and shared appreciation.