The Jellyfish Model: Video Summary
“The shift has taken us from a traditional agency model to a work environment where we form temporary collaborative teams and vet our projects as they come in.” – Carl Smith
Radar #2
A weekly collection of industry stuff that looks cool. If you have something you'd like to get on the radar submit it here.
Sub-pixel text rendering
At face value, sub-pixel antialiased text seems like a great idea — using display sub-pixels to increase horizontal resolution can help with clarity and legibility. However, there’s many situations where it’s undesirable, not practical or simply impossible. Despite the benefits and staunch supporters, sub-pixel text rendering is on the decline and looks set to disappear [...]
Responsive Menu Concepts
Deep dive into four main responsive menu concepts and discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of all of them.
Responsive Images Community Group
We’re a group of developers working towards a markup-based means of delivering alternate image sources based on device capabilities to prevent wasted bandwidth and optimize display for both screen and print.
SassMeister
SassMeister is a playground for Sass. Add some Sass and SassMeister will show you the rendered CSS. SassMeister supports both Sass and SCSS syntaxes and all output styles.
Polar – Photo Poll App
Polar is a super-fast and easy way to create and vote on great-looking photo polls. It’s also free.
RWD will be 99.9% Typography
“The trend towards increasingly large typography and simpler layouts was just that, a trend. I now think it’s possibly a logical necessity.” Couldn’t agree with that statement more!
Sprite Animations
HTML5/Javascript game development is still early, and there’s pitfalls to avoid, as well as choices to make on which technology to deploy. In this article I’ll run through some of the choices to be made developing 2D games, and hopefully give you some ideas for developing your own games using HTML5.
What’s a Ligature?
The in’s and out’s of what a Ligature is and means when you talk about and use them.
Basehold.it
A quick painless javascript-free baseline overlay.
Microsoft begs Web devs not to make WebKit the new IE6
Internet Explorer 10 has a problem: Web developers don’t expect to see it on the mobile Web.
HTML5 Sectioning Flowchart
HTML5 Element Flowchart: Sectioning content elements and friends.
Responsive background images with fixed or fluid aspect ratios
What’s the easiest way to scale background images in responsive layouts? We use an old technique and enhance it to fluidly change the aspect ratio of background images.
Multiple-Choice “Windowed Slider” UI
When a user ponders, “Does the description describe the ‘current state’ or an ‘action I can take’?” the UI has failed to work and is too complex for such a simple action.
Popapp
iPhone prototyping made easy. Design on Paper. Take Pictures. Simulate. Easy!
Bootsnipp
Bootsnipp is an element gallery for web designers and web developers, anybody who is using Bootstrap will find this website essential in their craft.