Each week, we do a round up of curated “stuff from the interwebs” that we call Radar.
Designers shouldn’t code. They should study business.
I’m not saying we should start shipping poorly designed experiences. We have to keep growing and focusing on craft. If we don’t, nobody else will. But let’s also start understanding the businesses we work for and what they need in order to grow. If we’re able to do that, we will continue to gain more […]
ConvergeSE Speaker Profile – Megan Zlock
Megan spoke at our BDConf DC in 2015 about A more beautiful & accessible web for all! She’s speaking again at ConvergeSE in Columbia, SC, April 13-15th. about the using the Craft CMS in your web dev projects.
Diving all in or dipping a toe? How publishers are approaching Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative
“Everything we know about building a webpage, we have to relearn. But we’re relearning it from the premise of converting a current product over, not creating a product from scratch.”
In Defense of Homogeneous Design
The whole “Homogeneity of Design” topic is creeping up again. That’s cool. We’re all special flowers in our own way. But I’d like to make a few points about product design, as I see it.
Create mobile-friendly interactive maps
Peter Cook shows how to build your own weather map using the open source Leaflet mapping library and data from the Met Office.
ConvergeSE Speaker Profile – Aaron Irizarry
Aaron spoke at our BDConf DC in 2015 about Discussing Design. He’s speaking again at ConvergeSE in Columbia, SC, April 13-15th.
15 Best Practices for Responsible Responsive Web Design
Responsive web design is not just a matter of squeezing and stretching. It’s about delivering one website countless ways depending on the width of the screen. What to add? What to remove? How to prioritize what’s most important? What are the implications for search rankings? And how do you do all of that with just […]
Basic Patterns for Mobile Navigation: A Primer
Mobile navigation must be discoverable, accessible, and take little screen space. Exposing the navigation and hiding it in a hamburger both have pros and cons, and different types of sites have different preferred solutions to the mobile-navigation quandary.
3D Folding Panel
A secondary content panel that folds flat, powered by CSS Transformations and jQuery.
Cleaning Up a CSS Codebase
You have just been onboarded to an existing project to replace a departing developer. Or maybe you just opened that old project of yours from a few years ago. You are faced with dread and horror when looking at the code. You can do only one thing: Clean up this mess! Does that sound familiar […]
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Here’s the link to this week’s batch of goodness: Radar #137.
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