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Astonishing CSS3 animation work by graphic design major Pedro Ivo Hudson.
Astonishing CSS3 animation work by graphic design major Pedro Ivo Hudson.
Great advice and resources from web developers Paul Irish, Mat Marquis and many more on how to give back to web community. Some essential, timeless links here.
Software developer/startup founder Dan Newcome:
The value of the Web is the content and connections. Just let me use the Web. I don’t care that much if I get slightly jerky scrolling, or if the list doesn’t seem like it’s infinitely scrolling off the edge of my little iOS world.
There’s a reason why this short post made the front page of Hacker News for 24 hours; If there’s anything that I’d like to see end in this new year, it’s the “native apps for everything” trend. Native apps are great, web browsers are great; but neither is great for everything.
As UX Magazine emphasizes here, single page websites are everywhere. I predict we could see a big backlash to the look overall by mid next year.
More technical or design-heavy presentations can be hard to deliver well; either you get too technical or too visual. That’s why the advice here from designer Andy Whitlock here is so helpful. Andy writes simple presentation pointers that are applicable almost anywhere.
The iPad Mini is getting rave reviews from most tech sites, yet it presents a major problem for responsive web design. In particular, as several great A List Apart writers point out in this article (including the great Luke Wroblewski), you’ve got a device with the same pixel device width (768px) yet noticeably smaller dimensions than the full size iPad.
As much as I love Tweetbot, Twitterrific 5, the new Twitter client from Iconfactory, matches my Twitter needs more effectively. This blog post breaks down the app’s development organization. This is the most important sentence:
When you have a large project, be it a movie or a piece of software, you have to have someone calling the creative shots.
User interface designer Maykel:
If you want to create something, you should learn the basic level of actually implementing it. This goes for handcrafting physical products as well as interactive ones. Sure, it’s scary. Yes, it starts out being confusing. And there is more than a 99% chance that you will fail at your first try.
FF Meta and Myriad makes for a a pretty rare web pairing (for that matter, Myriad solo is pretty underutilized), but Ev Williams’ Medium does the job right.
As we delve more heavily into responsive imagery in my day job, production needs increase on an already overburdened staff. We needed a way to speed up PSD comp production work, and Mac app Slicy has been a great solution so far. Slicy is simple app that auto exports and slices out clean transparent pngs or jpgs of individual layers in a PSD file. Best of all, it auto exports 1x/2x images, essential for a responsive workflow. It’s developed by MacRabbit, the team behind CSSEdit and Espresso, so naturally the refinement is really high. Highly recommended for $29.