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If you’re an app maker who knew about the pitfalls of gestures but still are on the road to creating the next pull-to-refresh, by all means, proceed. But if you’re one whose target audience is the average user whom you care about and whom you want to use your app instead of just download it [...]
As an industry, we sell websites like paintings. Instead, we should be selling beautiful and easy access to content, agnostic of device, screen size, or context. If you can get your client to believe in the sales process that you’ll do that for them, they won’t care what the site looks like.
This article explains what conceptual models are and describes the value of developing a conceptual model of a software application before designing its user interface.
There is a lot of debate around whether we should be charging extra for building sites responsively, or whether it has become a standard and should be included as part of your current pricing structure.
Talking through RWD on a Windows 8 Phone.
A CSS video tutorial all about playing a CSS animation only on :hover using the animation-play-state property.
Looks very neat! Webflow enables you to create responsive layouts and pixel-perfect designs directly in your browser, without writing a single line of code.
A rapid prototyping and static site generation tool for designers and developers
Not all designers need to be coding pages from scratch or learning JS. I think the baseline is as simple as knowing how to manipulate the work of other developers.
If you find yourself having trouble visualizing a design or workflow in your head, give this method a try.
Responsive design, however, is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to creating a rich, engaging mobile experience.
Accommodating responsive design didn’t create new workflow problems, it just amplified ones that were already there.
A thorough article on how to approach a responsive, retina-friendly website from the bottom up.
People use their smartphones anywhere and everywhere they can, which often means distracted situations that require one-handed use and short bits of partial concentration. Effective mobile designs not only account for these one thumb/one eyeball experiences but aim to optimize for them as well.
Brad Frost’s thoughts and considerations around carousels.