Category: Design
Write for Your Life – Why the Amazon Kindle might be the new iPod
hat’s a key point and possibly the only reason why I might instead stick with buying the current Kindle as opposed to the new tablet Amazon is most likely going to introduce.
GitHub – davatron5000/FitVids.js
Pretty cool, not something I personally would need often but still useful.
Lea Verou – Pure CSS3 typing animation with steps()
Pretty nifty trick.
The Ad Contrarian – Advertising And The Future Of Apple
Not a bad negative outlook of Apple post Steve Jobs, it starts with a pretty good premise but the conclusion doesn’t jibe.
CSS-Tricks – Functional CSS Tabs Revisited
The idea of "CSS Tabs" has been around for a long time. If you Google it, a lot of what you get is styled CSS tabs, but less stuff on the building an actually functional tabbed area. At least, functional in the sense as we think of tabbed areas today: click a tab, see a […]
Ars Technica – Wikipedia editors voting on plan to “shutter” violent and sexual images
Not a bad plan, it’s a reasonable balance between still providing a visual representation of whatever and making it easier for people who don’t want to be “shocked” at the sight of the image.
Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox – Defer Secondary Content When Writing for Mobile Users
Wikipedia’s mobile version while typically not known for it’s usability is used as a good example of hiding information until needed.
Silicon Alley 2.0 – Why my Mom Bought an Android, Returned It, and Got an iPhone
His proposed solution is one that Google should really think about, though even that may not be right.
skyrill.com – Type Fluid Experiment
Pretty stuff.
The Watchmaker Project – How to fix the broken iPad form label click issue
Nice and simple fix, defiantly not quite as common a problem on the iPhone (rarely do I find myself wanting to hit the label vs. the input field).